Up, Up & Away

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/9/07 at 6:27pm

In Reidels column today, a taste of the future re ticket prices

In the past, ticket prices held steady for a few years. Now it appears every year a blockbuster new show will up the price of their top regular ticket price & set the bar for other shows. This time the parties that brought you "premium seating" appear to be bringing us the $ 120 Orchestra seat

It is the Brooks gang & Young Frankenstein. Nothing surprises me anymore but Mrs R said this is bordering on lunacy. I reminded her that how , not to long ago we had empty theaters & after 9/11 they could not give tickets away

They are really intent on thinning out the Broadway audience. How much more money does Brooks & Co need ? Unless we sit upstairs or (highly unlikely) get an offering Young Frankenstein may not be happening for us

Maybe I can get my brother in law with the $ 200,000 K a year job to get it for us as a Christmas present

Anyone else have any thoughts on the very good possibility of $ 120 ticket prices

[CapnHook]

Posted: 3/9/07 at 6:36pm

I blame Bush, I guess.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/9/07 at 6:39pm

Why not?

Since I cannot blame anyone else, he is responsible for my peripheral neuropathy, bladder cancer, colon problems. I will also blame him when the # 7 train is late and/or discharges passengers 2 stops before Main St in the morning rush hour

He was also the reason why Lestat bombed & why every show is not recorded. There, I got it off my chest

Back to the discussion, how do you feel about $ 120 tickets Hook ?

Updated On: 3/9/07 at 06:39 PM

[Shakespearean]

Posted: 3/9/07 at 10:04pm

I'm guessing there won't be $25 tickets from AM NY for that one...

[mattonstage]

Posted: 3/10/07 at 12:15am

I blame the first person in history who ever raised a price! They got the ball rolling and the rest of us got screwed!

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 3/10/07 at 12:45am

ugh. it's disgusting.

but theater is a business, after all.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 3/10/07 at 2:01am

MrRoxy and CaptnHook, Bush had nothing to do with it.

Bush is just a scrim.

Cheney pulls the strings.

It's all Cheney's fault.

(And BTW, MrRoxy, CaptnHook, Caroline-Q-or-TBoo, why do I feel like I'm addressing a bowl of breakfast cereal?)