Twentieth Century Closeout Sale

Through the Playbill club, Roundabout is offering a very nice selection of orchestra and front mezzanine seats for 99 dollars until the end of the run.

The usual suspects are present. It doesn't apply to the last weekend and on weekends the cheap seats don't kick in until about row G or H of the side orchestra. On less popular days the discount might start in side orchestra row E or F. If you're willing to take the seats right next to the wall, and there really isn't any obstruction, even for popular days you are good.

Saturday, July 4th, maybe because it is the holiday, has a lot of bargains. Side orchestra seats closer to the aisle than the wall starting around rows G and H.

And plenty of 99 dollar front mezzanine seats available.

I have tickets for the last performance on Sunday, July 19th in center orchestra Row H. Should be a lot of fun. There's a nice pair of side orchestra Row H available at this moment. Seats 12 and 14. Sorry, but they're full price.

Yes, I think it's accepted now that Broadway tickets have risen considerably more than the inflation rate. Besides the increase in cost for regular seats, the concept of "premium" seats caught on like wildfire. For The King and I, I think that the first ten rows of the center orchestra are "premium."

And no matter how much they jack up ticket prices and cut expenses by sacrificing musicians, there's still a "gala" or two every year and the drive to get you make a donation when you buy tickets or subscriptions so you can get a little card labeling you a "friend" or "patron."

I'd like to read a good article on the finances of Broadway and how they have changed over the last thirty years or so. Who, if anyone, has benefitted from the apparent increase in money it takes to produce a show.

The great unwashed masses have not benefitted  This is for damn sure.