TheaterMania Gold Club, Audience Extras, Play By Play — Page 3

BUMP!!!! So, as you all know, a formerly free papering site, now has a small fee, which I am still very willing to pay, but it brought up the idea of looking into other membership sites... I've never been a paying member, I usually rush/lotto shows, and I do manage to see a lot, if not all new Broadway shows in a season, but a friend and I figure we give one of these a try for a year, to see if it is worth it. So the sites of note that we found are as follows; Theatermania Gold Club, Play by Play, TDF, Audience Extras and Theatre Extras. Ideally we want to join one, so if anyone can either reply here, or PM me with details less suitable for a message board, PLEASE DO! We want the best bang for our buck. (Shows per year vs the cost) Any info would be greatly appreciated. ideally the info is of current/recent offerings, not info from the beginning of this board. Lol. (And if we forgot one in our research, or you have other thoughts, feel free to let me know!) 

thsnks in advance for any info.

The Spondooly site looks great. I signed up for $40 which looks like it is a $5 discount for 5 more minutes. 

https://www.livingsocial.com/deals/1413544-two-ticket-annual-events-membership?ref=share-undefined-copy_box-web-deals&rui=139767943&rpi=195681464

So apparently StudentRush which was free has become WillCallClub and now requires a $20 subscription fee, jeeze the guy that runs it was an asshole, now he's a greedy asshole. 

I just renewed TMG.  They give you a history of the shows you have seen.  31 in the past year.  4 were Broadway, 16 were close to Broadway (2nd Stage, New World, Westside) The rest were an assorted of different venues.  We worth the price.

As for the site that can not be names just this weekend they had tixlavailable for a Broadway show that plays in two parts.  Both were available.

What site can't be named? Can you PM me?

Could I get a PM too about this site?

I found that the Gold Club is very good value, good access to Broadway shows, and are incredibly easy to deal with.

All of them get some number of Broadway shows (although less in some seasons than in others). The key difference is not so much on the supply side as on the demand side. Some sites either have more members or more members who check the listings obsessively, so the bigger ticket offerings disappear more quickly. It is also true that some general managers will favor the ones that get rid of more tickets quicker either because they give them a better idea of where they stand, or because it is less work to dump tickets in 1-2 places if you feel sure they will be scooped up. With shows that are housed in big barns, and are regularly leaving over 700 seats empty, it is not surprising that they are found on most all sites long after they are listed. And in some cases the normal limit of 2 tickets per member is increased to 4 or even 8.