Tickets

Producers will charge as much as they can, cannot blame them wanting their money back, as they have to put a lot of investment up initially. You have to blame dopey people who will pay $477 for a seat!!

I wonder if producers conclude with ticket agents to push poorer full price tickets first, so customers are put off by their seat offered and feel more inclined to buy a more expensive premium seat?

No better feeling than bagging a once premium seat at TKT's!

Mama, I think Roxy's been around a few more years than many of you on the board. Theater tickets were much cheaper in the early 60's. I have opening night ticket stubs from HELLO, DOLLY! (Jan 16, 1964) and they were $9.90 (3rd row center). When that is in your background, the current prices are staggering.

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^ But the other reality is that salaries and everything else was a lot less back then. Unless you are or were wealthy, that $9.90 was probably a lot of money back then.

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I am planning my next trip to New York (in May) and can attest to Mr. Roxy's frustration. Was looking at Once, Newsies, Evita, Ghost, etc. There was a time when just a few rows were "Premium Seating" however now at least half of Center Orchestra and maybe 4 seats on each side of Left and Right Orchestra are Premium. But at $263 for Evita and $213 for Newsies that's just a lot of money.

Ways to get cheaper seats:

TDF
Goldstar events
Broadway Box
Theatermania

Gee when I was in high school top tickets were $25
now they are 10 x that.

Unless the show is a smash like Book Of Mormon, there always seems to be a way
to beat the system.

The half price booth is actually what drove tickets up. When $50 tickets were going for $30, the producers figured that $100 tickets could go for 60 and up went the prices.

I can almost understand top dollar for a big musical, but I can't understand top dollar for a a small play like Venus in Fur, Wit, Other Desert Cities, Seminar etc.

And yet, tickets sell. I feel that there are plenty here who go to the theatre often enough that if they can't afford one or two shows that they want to see, they don't go as a result. That is fine, I am the same way myself. However, the one group that this isn't the case for is tourists. Broadway theatre has been a popular stop on any tourists "to do" check list forever. And, I can't tell you how many times I have been in a theatre box office or on the TKTS line and have heard them complain about the price. But, at the same time, they end up buying them anyway. They go in realizing that everything in NYC is expensive and although they might not like spending 125 bucks per person, they feel as if it is their only way to see a show and suck it up and do it anyway.

I don't think that they are reasonable Roxy. But, clearly there are more people than not who are buying them. I would think that if producers charged the prices that they do and no one is showing up. Then they might reconsider how much they sell their tickets for. But, clearly that isn't the case since prices have seemed to get higher within the last couple of years.

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Everything goes up in price, look any of the sports teams in this area, look at gas prices, look at the god damn tolls for the bridges around here that the port authority just raised. It's only going to get worse.

Though by the logic displayed here, you'd still buy the overly expensive Mustang and then go on to a message board and proclaim that you can't believe how greedy those car companies are for charging high prices for a luxury item.

Roxy, once again you have your facts wrong! I wasn't sneaking in to see the gladiators. I was sneaking into the Circus Maximus to see their Monday night g0=go show. There was one fellow who went my the name of Circus Maximus who was...well..."maximus".

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^ And that is especially frustrating for someone who doesn't live in NYC and wants to plan ahead!

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It wasn't in those days, Roxy! Ah, the toga parties we had!

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I think that his view on that question changes depending on the situation.

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