THE MUSIC MAN Announces Standing Room Policy With $76 Tickets
THE MUSIC MAN Announces Standing Room Policy With $76 Tickets
Broadway Star Joined: 9/27/13
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
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Posted: 5/16/22 at 4:23pm
I find it easier when you post the article. :0
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-MUSIC-MAN-Announces-Standing-Room-Policy-With-76-Tickets-20220516
A limited number of tickets will be available for same-day purchase, subject to availability, beginning 2 hours before performances at the box office of the Winter Garden Theatre for $76 each. Limit 2 tickets per customer.
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Posted: 5/16/22 at 4:24pm
Absolutely not.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/18
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Posted: 5/16/22 at 4:32pm
Standing Room is a perfect view at the Winter Garden. But I don't think I'd stand anywhere for $76.
THE MUSIC MAN Announces Standing Room Policy With $76 Tickets#6
Posted: 5/16/22 at 4:36pm
Sadly, I'm sure people will pay it. If people will pay $700 to sit in premium seats, and what? $150 for the worst seats in the house? I'm sure plenty of people will be happy to pay $76 to stand at the rear orchestra (which offers a decent view).
Didn't China Doll also charge like $75 for SRO? Or maybe it was a little less.
Let's hope other popular shows don't follow-suit, but it sets an unfortunate precedent.
It's been really sad watching rush/SRO/lotto prices basically double over the past decade. It feels like we are watching rush tickets being slowly phased out, as the price gets closer and closer to what we often see on the lower end of regular discounts.
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Posted: 5/16/22 at 4:41pm
I won't do it because I sat in the cheapest balcony seat for $99 plus fees.
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Posted: 5/16/22 at 5:07pm
Too bad the song wasn't thirty nine trombones.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
THE MUSIC MAN Announces Standing Room Policy With $76 Tickets#9
Posted: 5/16/22 at 5:10pm
Damn, I still remember $25 SRO tickets. $76? WTF?!!!
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
THE MUSIC MAN Announces Standing Room Policy With $76 Tickets#10
Posted: 5/16/22 at 5:14pm
Absolutely disgusting. The greed is repugnant.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
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Posted: 5/16/22 at 5:17pm
Especially for a show already raking in the big bucks!
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/16
THE MUSIC MAN Announces Standing Room Policy With $76 Tickets#13
Posted: 5/16/22 at 6:30pm
Price gouging at its "finest." So much for inclusion and accessibility.
Updated On: 5/16/22 at 06:30 PM
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Posted: 5/16/22 at 6:33pm
This is a pretty gross precedent, but the greed from this production has verged on contempt for ticketbuyers for the entire run.
THE MUSIC MAN Announces Standing Room Policy With $76 Tickets#15
Posted: 5/16/22 at 6:38pm
Greed. They’re already making $3 million a week.
$76 to stand for almost 3 hours? No thank you.
i do hope the house manager will let them sit in any empty seats (no shows) after intermission.
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Posted: 5/16/22 at 6:40pm
Not paying $76 to stand for any show!
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Posted: 5/16/22 at 7:51pm
I remember $20 SRO. Back in my visiting NYC for the weekend college days I did it for a number of shows.
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Posted: 5/16/22 at 7:55pm
Certain shows still have cheap SRO tickets. Come From Away was still $32 when they reopened. I believe Book of Mormon is still $27.
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Posted: 5/16/22 at 8:46pm
This revival was one of the worst I’ve seen 25 years of theater going, and to stand for this drivel AND pay almost 80 bucks?
…DA F*CK?
THE MUSIC MAN Announces Standing Room Policy With $76 Tickets#20
Posted: 5/16/22 at 10:28pm
ACL2006 said: "Certain shows still have cheap SRO tickets. Come From Away was still $32 when they reopened. I believe Book of Mormon is still $27."
Come From Away hasnt sold standing room since reopening.
THE MUSIC MAN Announces Standing Room Policy With $76 Tickets#21
Posted: 5/16/22 at 10:49pm
I paid ~40 for SRO for BoM in February, was still very worth it.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/22
THE MUSIC MAN Announces Standing Room Policy With $76 Tickets#22
Posted: 5/16/22 at 11:07pm
If they really couldn’t live without making a joke out of the “76” thing, they could have said “$76 for a pair of standing room tickets so you and a friend can enjoy a trip to River City together” or something, which would end up with $38 per ticket - and still sell singles for $38 if people are attending alone.
But no, this is just classic greedy Scott bullsh|t.
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Posted: 5/16/22 at 11:19pm
lily carver said: "I remember $20 SRO. Back in my visiting NYC for the weekend college days I did it for a number of shows."
I remember paying $20 SRO for PHANTOM back in 1990.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
THE MUSIC MAN Announces Standing Room Policy With $76 Tickets#24
Posted: 5/16/22 at 11:27pm
On the other hand --
"The Music Man is making available 10,000 tickets at just $20 each to New York City students, their families, and their teachers to help foster a love and appreciation for the arts by making Broadway more accessible. This broad effort is built around partnerships with the New York City Department of Education and a dozen local youth non-profits including Artists Striving to End Poverty, Art Start, Arts For All, Arthur Miller Foundation, On Broadway Performing Arts Training Program, Young People's Chorus of NYC, Education Through Music, Rosie's Theatre Kids, R Evolucion Latina, and Broadway Bridges.
That's foregone receipts of approximately USD 2,600,000 for 10,000 tickets priced at USD 260 (avg price USD 280 - USD 20)!
THE MUSIC MAN Announces Standing Room Policy With $76 Tickets#25
Posted: 5/16/22 at 11:29pm
First off, management or ushers will NOT assist you in either finding or allowing you sit in an empty seat come intermission. Nor should they. Secondly, SRO has been selling out since day one. So, clearly there are people who are interested in seeing the show and spending that much money on standing room.
But, if you think that it’s crazy that people are nuts for paying that amount to stand, All I can say is that there’s a sucker born every minute
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