RENT Tour question — Page 2

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.