Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

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Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:31pm

Well, well, well.

Ha.

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#2

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:34pm

ouch.

#3

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:35pm

Hey, they need someone desperate enough to help them out financially and keep that show going at real ticket prices.

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#4

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:37pm

Well isn't it just a big marketing tool?

#5

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:37pm

Too bad it's locked. I would have posted to point out that by using the lotto instead of Voices for Rent's ticketing service, they'd save enough money to buy all those cool prizes and merchandise at the show.

That whole site is so ridiculous; I can't wait for it to implode.

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Updated On: 6/14/07 at 06:37 PM

#6

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:38pm

It's even more "fun" than that Altar Boyz quiz site.

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#7

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:39pm

Haha.

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#8

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:48pm

Apparently they don't realize that their posters' probable average age is within the lotto-needing range.

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#9

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 7:17pm

They probably think that the kids on their website will just run to their parents to buy full price tickets. Because what's more in line with Rent's themes than mooching luxuries off your parents?

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#10

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 7:52pm

Haha, they sound so desperate.

"It's even more "fun" than that Altar Boyz quiz site."

That website cracks me up. Do they really think that'll make people want to go see it? Altar Boyz has some of the oddest marketing techniques.

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Updated On: 6/14/07 at 07:52 PM

#11

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 8:09pm

In all the times I've seen ReNT (I've lost count, but it's not a crazy high number) I only paid full price once. Every other time was lotto or standing room.

Viva La VFR Rent Merchandise! (bomp)

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#12

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 8:11pm

Oho that's ridiculous. Ha wow.

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#13

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 8:17pm

Whoops. Haha.

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#14

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 8:24pm

Well, if that doesn't drive people to try the lotto, I don't know what will.

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#15

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 9:05pm

That is so ridiculous...

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#16

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 9:54pm

Wow. Kudos to "Landlord Benny" (haha) to admitting the site's purpose openly. I also have only once in four times seeing the show, have paid full price for tickets.

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#17

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 10:02pm

Why would anyone pay full price for RENT tickets? It's not quite worth 110 dollars anymore.

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#18

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 10:05pm

Because Anna- Revue generated from that link comes back to Voices for Rent, which means cooler merchandise and better prizes!!! Duh!

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#19

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 10:41pm

I'm not gonna lie, I've been a devoted fan of Rent for several years but this makes me hope the show closes soon. It's morphed into some creepy, hypocritical, exploitation of Jonathan's message and I think its time has come...

*Tear, that was really hard to admit "out loud."

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#20

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 10:49pm

haha so lame. thats the same guy who said that the graffiti on the walls of the nederlander added a rent-ish touch to the show.

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#21

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 11:21pm

Not counting the homeless, how many tickets weren't comped?

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#22

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 11:26pm

Oh yeah. Spend $100 on tickets to Rent, in a theatre covered in graffiti. Even the subways don't look that trashy anymore. I thought Benny didn't want a neighborhood where people piss on your stoop. Voices for Rent is anti-Rent.

I've seen it upwards of 10 times and never paid full price. Then again, I've seen only paid full price for 2 tickets ever.

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Updated On: 6/14/07 at 11:26 PM

#23

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/14/07 at 11:46pm

Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

It's also anti-democracy. But I did get a magnet!

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#24

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:04am

WOW..

by the way, I love how they call the obcr a soundtrack.

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#25

re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto

Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:18am

One of the best things about the whole Rent phenomenon was the kids that camped to rush. It's the history of the show. Not being allowed to talk about that is just silly. The shark as long since been jumped.

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