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Posted: 7/3/15 at 9:38pm
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.
Posted: 7/3/15 at 10:00pm
SAME HERE QAFGENUIUS122!!! Let me know too!! I rush almost every musical and about 4 or 5 plays each season!! Im getting tired of rushing though lol
Posted: 7/4/15 at 12:33am
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
Posted: 7/4/15 at 12:47am
Just got tickets for a great concert next week under the "newark" tab that more than pay for itself from Spondooly, plus no service fee for tickets. Then they have a partial selection of the stuff regularly on studentrush. Theater Extras I joined almost a year ago and I have seen 4 broadway shows through them, some un exciting Lincoln Center stuff and they have sports games up once in awhile. Gold Club I used to love but either stopped offering great stuff or got over loaded so nothing was up long enough to catch.
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Posted: 7/4/15 at 1:33am
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.
Posted: 7/4/15 at 3:17am
WillCall club usually only has off-Broadway and off-off Broadway. AE has nearly every off-Broadway show sooner or later. I've been in Theater Extras for the past four years and its okay. Theater Extras has had tickets for music acts at Lehman College and Queens College, which I've liked.
I was in Play by Play but they kicked me out. I'm very fat. Some off-Broadway theaters complained about me not sitting in my assigned seat. I told PbP that they describe themselves as a seat filling service, and no one filled a seat as well as me, but they were not amused. PbP used to get the house seats (for less than $5 for members) for big Broadway musicals on opening night -- they had Thoroughly Modern Millie, Flower Drum Song, and Annie Get Your Gun. They're probably the best of these seat filling services.
Audience Extras and Theater Extras both get a lot at NJPAC which has a lot of non Equity shows and acts passing through.
High Five is a good program for NYS high school students and young looking college students with fake id's.
Posted: 7/4/15 at 10:15am
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.
Posted: 7/4/15 at 10:19am
No desire to see the two parter - hint it is about Henry VIII.
Is anyone having difficulty with PBP this weekend? Wife tried to get in and she gets message invalid password.
Posted: 7/4/15 at 10:19am
What site can't be named? Can you PM me?
Posted: 7/4/15 at 10:48am
PBP is up and running again for those interested parties.
Posted: 7/4/15 at 12:59pm
Could I get a PM too about this site?
Posted: 7/4/15 at 2:08pm
Can I get a PM too? Pleaseeeee :)
Posted: 7/4/15 at 3:29pm
I found that the Gold Club is very good value, good access to Broadway shows, and are incredibly easy to deal with.
Posted: 7/4/15 at 3:52pm
How often are Broadway shows actually up on these sites though?
Posted: 7/4/15 at 4:26pm
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.
