You pay an annual fee (usually around $85) which gives you access to their website with current offerings. Tickets are free (limit 2 per account), but there is a nominal service charge per ticket your order ($3 to $5, depending on the service).
Broadway offerings are very infrequent (and usually just for one or two shows that are struggling or early in previews before their ad campaigns have kicked in) and they are snapped up within minutes of being offered, so it takes a bit of luck and speed to get tickets for them. Most shows listed are Off- or Off-Off-Broadway, with cabaret and comedy shows tossed in as well. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who doesn't live in easy proximity of midtown and doesn't have a very flexible schedule. Typically, the offerings are for shows that same evening or the next day -- only a handful of performances will be listed with more than 48 hours notice.
If you're just coming here on vacation and won't be here long, it's a really bad idea for you. Those shows you mention -- Tarzan, Wedding Singer, Lestat -- are likely to be popular and not offered at all (Disney doesn't even use papering services to my knowledge so you can forget Tarzan). And if they are offered, it'll be day-of and any tickets will be snapped up within 5 minutes. You might get lucky if you really wanna spend your vacation sitting in front of a computer, refreshing the papering sites every few minutes. Odds are, you won't get anything that way and will end up at TKTS (if any of those shows are up) or at the box office paying full price and there's no telling what kind of seats you might end up with if any of those shows end up selling well in previews.
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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Updated On: 11/21/05 at 04:03 PM
