RENT Tour question- Page 2

[moosepower93]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 1:47pm

I saw Harley in San Antonio for the first act. I thought he was amazing. He got supper sick and had to go to the hospital. So whoever thinks Harley was a bad mark must have seen him on a really bad night. I think he is the 2nd best Mark i've seen.

I've only seen the show 3 times but the first Mark i saw was Matt Caplan and he was amazing.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 1:57pm

He got supper sick and had to go to the hospital.

Did he have food poisoning?

[hermionejuliet]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 2:41pm

Lizzy Curry, you're just all over the place, aren't you?

Doesn't the price of tickets depend partially on the venue? I saw the tour at a couple different venues, and each venue had different ticket prices.

I enjoyed the majority of the cast in the last tour. There were some weak links, but some very strong cast members made up for that. I thought it was a very good tour. Harley isn't my favorite Mark at all, but he isn't horrible by any means. Declan is wonderful, and I loved Tracy as well. Both Declan and Harley are VERY different from Adam and Anthony so it will be a change for the Broadway cast.

Updated On: 8/14/07 at 02:41 PM

[IAMmyownMUSICAL]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 6:53pm

The tour tickets are NO WHERE NEAR as expensive as the equity Broadway Production.

The tour prices for the most part range from 20-65 dollars. Some theaters a little more, some a little less. That price is really nothing to complain about when on Broadway tickets cost 200 plus dollars.

[Craww]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 7:04pm

Well. With the discounts that are extremely common with the Broadway production of Rent, I'm pretty sure I paid less to see it on Broadway than I did for the tour in April.

That's a fair argument with other shows, but nobody actually pays 200 dollars to see Rent.

Posted: 8/14/07 at 7:11pm

Um, I happen to love Harley Jay. I thought he was a lot better than Matt Caplan. Declan I'm still on the wire with though. THe only other Rogers I've seen are Tim Howar and Adam Pascal. I've seen the show four times, twice on Broadway and twice on the tour. I liked the tour better than the B-way production (with the exception of Anthony and Adam, they were clearly standouts), but then that could just be me.

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 10:31pm

The ticket price structure is what you have to look at when comparing the tour vs. Broadway. Tickets are available at the Nederlander for $20, $50, and $100. Premium tickets, which, yes, some people do indeed buy, are $250, not $200. Yes, there are various types of discounted tickets sold, and the average amount paid weekly usually ranges between $50-60. It could be higher now with Adam and Anthony there, I haven't checked lately.

Tour tickets are never $100. Even back in the Equity tour days, the tickets weren't set as high as those for the Broadway show. They're generally in the $50-$60 range for the best seats, and, as I said, the venue sets the ticket prices, not the tour.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 10:38pm

The tour tickets are NO WHERE NEAR as expensive as the equity Broadway Production.

I didn't say an Equity Broadway production, I said an Equity tour.

Um, I happen to love Harley Jay. I thought he was a lot better than Matt Caplan.

Now there's a comparison. That's like saying Harley Jay as Mark is better than coming down with the ebola virus.

[Craww]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 10:48pm

Well. Premium are $250 on the weekends, and $200 for the weekdays. They were only $150 the first time I bought tickets to the show online. I know people buy them, there's always someone naive enough to pay way more to sit in row E than row F. Just no one that I know.

I didn't have a problem with the price of the tour tickets, but I never really had the matter of equity or non-equity dancing around in my head while purchasing the tickets or watching the show.

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:02pm

I think probably most people are like you, Craww, in that they're not thinking whether the tour is Equity or not when they purchase tickets. The fact is that most people don't even know the difference. It's hard to compare the prices of the two types of tours, with Rent, because it's been over six years since the last Equity tour ended. Even back then, ticket prices were higher than what they're charging for the top tickets on the non-Equity tour now. Not sure how it all compares to tours of other shows.

[Craww]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:12pm

The horror stories make me feel a little bad, a little wary. Like non-Equity = The Circus. But I get over it pretty quickly.

I'm pretty sure the Rent tour is the cheapest tour that's been to the venue I saw it at, of the shows I've priced.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:24pm

Great news! Photo of the next Roger and Mark in the new non-equity tour:

Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:35pm

That scares me lwyr.

skittles- I only have Matt Caplan and Anthony Rapp to compare Harley to, so yeah. You wouldn't disagree with that comparison though, clearly.

[Craww]

Posted: 8/14/07 at 11:39pm

For what it's worth, I liked Harley better than I liked Christopher. The case might be different if Christopher hadn't performed really badly the last time I saw him. Christopher was quite good the second time I saw him.

Part of me still wishes I'd gotten a chance to see Caplan.

[robin3]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 12:03am

I saw the last tour, I loved Harley's performance, Michael Ifill was great as Benny and I thought Jen Talton was an awesome Mimi. all around it was a wonderful night.

[bonjourdevoe]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 12:21am

A guy named Corey Mach is Gordan and the u/s for Mark and Roger

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 8:24am

Is that the same Corey Mach who goes to Baldwin Wallace? He's a friend of a friend, and if it's the same guy, he's VERY young, especially for Gordon.

I know that a few of the previous tour people are returning and a few others are considering it. Casting has not been completed yet.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:05am

what are the differences between the tour and the actual show?

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 10:34am

Not sure what you mean, motortink. The touring show itself is the same as the Broadway production, with the exception of a couple of lines where minor changes are made in reference to specific locations, e.g., Statue of Liberty/Circle Line, Jersey/Hicksville.