LA CAGE ticket prices

*Sigh* Balcony Row E please.

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*sigh* Make that two for the back of the balcony, please.

Nick Adams in drag is worth any price.

I guess I'll see you guys in the balcony, too. Thank goodness they did give us that option though, like theaterguy said. Not like "Night Music" where it's $50 for that terror balcony.

The Longacre probably has the best balcony in town.

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Agreed about the balcony, Smaxie. I sat up there for Boeing-Boeing and the view was great (and MUCH better than the higher-priced rear mezzanine). It's pretty close to the action and high up without being vertigo-inducing like the Kerr.

I love this production and want it to do well but fear it may suffer from these ridiculously over-inflated ticket prices. It won't have the star wattage pulling power of A Steady Rain, much as I enjoy Kelsey Grammer as an actor.

I fell in love with the London production after I took advantage of a £10 ticket offer from lastminute.com. I went back several times to see different pairings but the most I paid was £58 (roughly $95) and that was for a cabaret table right at the front - great fun and well worth it! I wonder if many folks will stump up another $50 or so for the experience on Broadway.

Does anyone know when these tickets go on sale and if they are offering cabaret tables (they were integral to the performance in London)?

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The cabaret tables for the London production were used at the Menier but not the Playhouse. So they're hardly "integral". I doubt you'll see them in New York. As for the prices, who pays full price for anything these days? It'll be at TKTS soon enough.

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Four tables? Where were they, in the orchestra pit? I was halfway back in the stalls and I completely missed them.

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I saw the show 5 times in London. Twice in the upper circle (balcony as the Americans call it) and three times in the stalls. Let me just say that for this show, sitting in the stalls gives you a completely different and more enjoyable experience of the show. Sitting right up high you WILL NOT enjoy it as much as sitting downstairs. Might be worth to see if there are discount codes out before you book the cheapest tickets.

These orchestra prices are a downer, that's for sure. What's particularly annoying is it doesn't matter if it's a lavish production like "Phantom," or a bargain-basement one, they're all charging the same rates.

At least with "Phantom" or "Lion King," you're seeing what you're paying for onstage, but cut-rate, bare-bones revivals of "Night Music" or "La Cage?"

Now I know people will say "the play's the thing," sets and costumes don't matter. Well I say, if you're paying $132.50, then, yes, sets and costumes do matter, as well as the size of the cast and the orchestra. All of it matters, and it matters a lot.

If you're going to bay $150 for a meal, the food could be exquisite, but you're not going to be happy if it's served on paper plates with plastic knives and forks, on a table with no tablecloth, and in a decor that looks like MacDonalds.

If producers are going to charge these prices, then at least they should give us our money's worth.

At least with "Phantom" or "Lion King," you're seeing what you're paying for onstage, but cut-rate, bare-bones revivals of "Night Music" or "La Cage?"

This production is nothing like Night Music in terms of sets and costumes. There are full sets for the club (several), the apartment, the promenade, Chez Jacqueline, etc., and there are no shortage of glamorous costumes either! The set was completely re-designed when the show moved from the Menier to the West End, in both cases it was built to suit the theatre in terms of style and size, so I imagine they will do the same for the theatre on Broadway.

Updated On: 1/15/10 at 10:01 AM