Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
#1Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/16/11 at 11:05pm
With the average cost of a Broadway ticket rising, I just wanted to get a feel about how much or how little one (excluding comps) spends on tickets, including rush.
Me:
Most Expensive: FOLLIES - $108
Least Expensive: HIGH and THE BOOK OF MORMON - $27
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Updated On: 10/16/11 at 11:05 PM
#2Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/16/11 at 11:11pm
Most: COMPANY concert--$175
Least: Any one of the dozens of shows I've seen for free.
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Eliza2
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#2Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/16/11 at 11:11pm
Most expensive: LES MIS - $115
Least expensive: ANYTHING GOES - $21.50
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#3Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/16/11 at 11:13pm
Most expensive: Billy Elliot (5 days after it won the Tony in fantastic seats)-$135
Least Expensive: The Book of Mormon (standing room for the final preview)-$27
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#4Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/16/11 at 11:17pm
I paid an ungodly amount to see BOM, I don't even care to type it here.
Cheapest: $21.50 (or was it $22?) for Anything Goes. (Hiptix)
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#5Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/16/11 at 11:17pm
Most Expensive: A Chorus Line (tour) $89.00 in the 3rd row orchestra.
Least Expensive: The Colour Purple (tour) $3.00
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#6Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/16/11 at 11:24pm
I've seen too many to tell but I don't think I've ever spent more than around $120, and I've only sat farther than the 8th row orchestra a handful out of the 458265782 times I've been to the theatre.
The cheapest I'm sure was both the Rent and West Side Story ('97 national tour--student rush--got 2nd row orchestra!!) discounted lottery/rush tix at $20 a pair.
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#7Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/16/11 at 11:43pm
Most Expensive-West Side Story-$85
Least Expensive-Bye Bye Birdie-$10
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#8Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 12:00am
MOST: The Book of Mormon... I paid a little over $300
LEAST: Whatever I have seen with student rush. The Hair and 9 to 5 tours were both pretty cheap (around $25 for mezzanine seats). Then for the Young Frankenstein tour I paid around $30 for second row.
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#9Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 12:04am
The Little Mermaid .. $250 Premium Seat (during previews).
It was my 2nd show on Broadway, before I knew the ins and outs. Dont judge me.
#10Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 12:19am
Most Expensive: Book of Mormon at about $100
Least Expensive: In the Heights/Memphis for about $25
#11Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 2:40am
Mine are both in London:
Most expensive: Love Never Dies at £67.50 ($106.73)
Least Expensive: Most things at the National Theatre at £5 ($7.91)
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#12Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 5:55am
Highest and lowest: BOM
Full Price ticket and then again for standing room.
I don't remember the exact cost for either one.
I would say that my AVERAGE price for the last five years, however, is more like 60 or 70. There aren't too many shows I will pay full price for.
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#13Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 6:28am
I paid $267 (plus fees) to see A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC with Bernadette Peters, on TWO occasions. Don't regret spending a cent. What a thrill it was to see my favourite Broadway actress live for the first (and second) time, in such a great show.
Cheapest: I think Freud's last session rush: $20
I tend not to wait for discounts because I want to ensure that I get good seats because I am travelling so far (from Australia).
Another notable expense: $147.50 (inc fees) for THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, lol.
Interestingly I only paid $99 for THE BOOK OF MORMON though - first row rear mezz before they upped the price so I feel kind of special (although perhaps not as special as those who could sit front row mezz for like $89 during previews, lol)
If I lived in the city I would spend a lot less money.
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"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 10/17/11 at 06:28 AM
#14Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 9:17am
Most expensive: Paid premium ($250) for Patti LuPone's GYPSY for 5th row center. WORTH EVERY FREAKIN' PENNY!
Least expenseive:$25 for Die Mommie Die with Charles Busch.
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#15Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 12:39pm
Most expensive: THE BOOK OF MORMON, $155
Least expensive: MISS SAIGON, $15 way back in the day
I first started attending Broadway shows in 1990, when the top ticket price was $55. Now the bottom regular price for many shows is $65. Sigh.
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#16Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 2:15pm
HHHmmm. I think my ticket to see ANNIE in Philadelphia back in 1980 was $12.50. I paid $0.00 to see SISTER ACT on Opening Night, as I was a guest of the book writer ... or book augmentor.
As far as most expensive ... legit ticket from the box office was to see a Sunday matinee of MARY POPPINS right after opening ... $250 - 5th row center on the aisle ... most expensive was a ticket broker --- $600.00 to see Julia Roberts in THREE DAYS OF RAIN.
broadwayjim42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#17Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 2:33pm
$100 plus fees for WICKED in 2006. Between umpteen unsuccessful tries at the lottery and a partner who actually wanted to see something for a change, I bit the bullet.
Free for AVENUE Q...won BWW tickets to the last Broadway matinee:)
#18Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 2:37pm
$100.00 - Wicked
$26.50 - Chinglish
$25.00 - The Normal Heart
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Updated On: 10/17/11 at 02:37 PM
#19Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 2:38pm
In The Heights: $121 for an OK seat in the mezz.
Now that I live in the city, I don't spend more than $40 on a ticket. It's either a comp, rush, or lotto ticket.
I think I'll only spend more than that if I see my favorite performer on stage (for example: Madonna, Lady Gaga, Angelina Jolie, etc... 
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#20Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 2:52pm
Most expensive: The Addams Family - $132.50
Least expensive: Legally Blonde on Tour - $10 (at Philly's Academy of Music)
Reent comps $0: Wonderland, Jersey Boys
#21Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 2:53pm
Most expensive: In The Heights; a little over $100
Least expensive: Jersey Boys; free.
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#22Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 7:13pm
$135 for THREE DAYS OF RAIN
$10 for EVERYDAY RAPTURE
The value of these are backwards - I would have paid $135 to see EVERYDAY RAPTURE!
Broadway aside, the most expensive show nights in town are seeing anything at Feinstein's.
#23Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 7:27pm
um, Follies...I bought eight tickets for different performances on Broadway, all at full price at $145-$155 each. Plus six full price tickets at the Kennedy Center. I'm basically not seeing any other shows this season unless they're comped or on TDF.
Least expensive..various comped performances. I've been lucky.
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Chorus Member Joined: 9/17/11
#24Most Expensive/Least Expensive Show You've Seen
Posted: 10/17/11 at 8:21pm
MOST: Wicked Bway: $130 + backstage tour
LEAST:Catch Me if You Can $70
Yeah I'm young so haven't seen too many shows yet! :)
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