The City Center theatre is a barn. It's HUGE. I saw FOLLIES in those $50 seats and had a good view though. Unless you need to be sitting really close to the stage in order to fully appreciate it, then I think those seats are fine. It's when you get to the $25 price range that it's pretty ridiculous (though I enjoyed GYPSY sitting in those seats).
I am not a fan of the JUNO score but like everything it's a matter of taste. I have listened to Clark perform a few numbers from the show from one of those special concerts that Encores! used to do at the end of every season. I say if you have never seen an Encores! production and you are a Victoria Clark fan, go see it. I saw her in FOLLIES last year and she was at the top of her game, she gave the kind of performance you'd expect from a Broadway production, she was off-book and didn't forget her lyrics.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"