Question about Playwrights Horizons Re SAVED

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 12:11pm

I would like to try to go see SAVED in early previews...the cast looks so great and I think it will be a really good show. I see that full price tickets are $70, which I am willing to pay. I would just like to know if shows at Playwrights Horizons ever have discounts, or do they usually sell out on full price. Is it a subscription house?

Tickets go on sale this Friday, and I was wondering if I should buy a ticket immediately, or wait a while to see if a discount pops up.

I have never seen a show at Playwrights Horizons, so any information you have would be appreciative.

Thanks!

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 12:24pm

at ticketcentral.com you can get a dicount to Drunken City (which is a playwrights horizons show) You have to be a student though. If Drunken City has a discount there's a good chance Saved will as well.

Edit://Broadwaybox also has a discount for Drunken City, so look for Saved there as well. Updated On: 4/8/08 at 12:24 PM

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 12:32pm

Saved is on the main stage, and also highly anticipated. They have student rush 2 hours before the show, but not if it's sold out. I doubt there'll be discounts. I, for one, am buying a full price ticket.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 12:45pm

Ticket Central does have Student No Rush - you don't need to provide ID card proof, however. Discounts are generally between $15-20.

[April Saul]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 12:57pm

There's lots of options with Playwrights Horizons if you are a student. I'm not sure if they'd let you do it at this point in the season, but I got a Flex Pass for my student daughter, which was $40 for great seats to FOUR of their shows, so she will wind up seeing stuff like Saved and Dead Man's Cell Phone for $10 a pop. Ticket Central does do a no-rush student ticket thing, true, but call them and find out what you have to do to sign up; my daughter did that as well, but you've got to register for it with your school e-mail address and not every show they sell tickets for is up there on the list at all times. If you're NOT a student, it is hard for me to imagine that Saved won't have some kind of discount, or pop up on TDF once or twice. Of their recent shows, only Cell Phone got away with not having to do that, and I think that was because of Mary-Louis Parker. Joining Horizons as a non-student is not a bad deal either; I think my membership runs about $40 a play, but there's a better rate if you're 35 or under, which I'm not. I'd give them a call first before you spend the 70-some-dollars, and see what your options are...

[CapnHook]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 1:07pm

For Playwrights Horizons, student tix can be competitive. They have a reserved number and they are usually taken by the time the first 2 shows are through. (I'm referring to the FlexPass or whatever it is called).

DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE had no rush because it was sold out and had to extend.

SAVED is arguably even more anticipated and will more than likely sell out early on.

Cheap seats you would be able to buy are "LOGE" seats which I got for $35. They are OK but to the extreme left or right, and are kinda tight. You can't sit next to anyone but you can sit in front of each other. It's a single vertical row of single seats.

I'm shelling out $70 for a normal seat to see this. It's the best option.

[theatrespaz]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 1:14pm

Is Playwright Horizons known for possibly extending their "hit" shows. Such as Saved for as many as 2 weeks?

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 2:06pm

For this show, I'd recommend you go the full price ticket route. It's, as others have said, highly anticipated and ticket availability is likely to be limited anyway. Subscribers have had first dibs on tickets for a while now so it will be interesting to hear about what's left when they go on sale to the general public on Friday.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 2:46pm

PH does indeed extend - weeks at a time, especially if their next show doesn't start for a while. SESSIONS (at the Sharp Theatre) was extended 4 or 5 times. Granted, by the end of the run, every single seat was papered, but...

[caquino]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 3:46pm

A few things:

--SESSIONS was not a Playwrights Horizons show. That was a rental in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater. But it is true that there will not be another show in the Mainstage Theater immediately after SAVED. (It's the last show of the 2007-08 season.)

--There are no loge seats for SAVED.

--Certain shows sold by Ticket Central have a Student No Rush policy where you can buy student tix in advance. However, Playwrights Horizons does not participate in this initiative. They do student rush one hour before each performance - always based on availability. But you can find out more on the Ticket Central website - www.ticketcentral.com.

--The Student FlexPass subscription (which works out to $10 per ticket) is no longer being sold for the 2007-08 season. They can be purchased for the 2008-09 season. Check the Playwrights Horizons website for details on the various subscriptions.
Subscribing to Playwrights Horizons

[meredithchandler73]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 3:55pm

I'm sure I'm one of many that will say buy your ticket right away. As far as extending, that's always a possibility. But it's not just whether the theater space is available for an extension. Sometimes shows can't extend due to cast availability and whatnot. Right?

[autopilot2]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 6:42pm

Has it gone on sale yet?

I couldn't find it on ticketcentral...

[Liverpool]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 6:52pm

There was a press release today that said individual tickets go on sale on the 11th. So in 3 days.

[autopilot2]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 6:56pm

Thanks mate!

[Vespertine1228]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 7:20pm

I can't imagine they're not hoping for some kind of future with this show beyond the limited run. Anything rarely plays the Playwrights mainstage during the summer, so I'd have to think it would extend.

Still, better safe than sorry.

[mikkix]

Posted: 4/8/08 at 10:54pm

Can I ask another question here?
What is "The open-captioned performance" on May 17 at 2:30pm?