Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
#1Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:31pm
Well, well, well.
Ha.
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#2re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:35pmHey, they need someone desperate enough to help them out financially and keep that show going at real ticket prices.
mll85
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/06
#3re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:37pmWell isn't it just a big marketing tool?
#4re: 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.
Wanting life but never knowing how
#5re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:38pmIt's even more "fun" than that Altar Boyz quiz site.
#6re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:39pmHaha.
#7re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:48pmApparently they don't realize that their posters' probable average age is within the lotto-needing range.
#8re: 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? 
Wanting life but never knowing how
#9re: 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.
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#10re: 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)
#11re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 8:11pmOho that's ridiculous. Ha wow.
#12re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 8:17pmWhoops. Haha.
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#13re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 8:24pmWell, if that doesn't drive people to try the lotto, I don't know what will.
#14re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 9:05pmThat is so ridiculous...
#15re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 9:54pmWow. 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.
AnnaK<3LMIP
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/07
#16re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 10:02pmWhy would anyone pay full price for RENT tickets? It's not quite worth 110 dollars anymore.
#17re: 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!
#18re: 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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#19re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 10:49pmhaha 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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#20re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/14/07 at 11:21pmNot counting the homeless, how many tickets weren't comped?
#21re: 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.
Wanting life but never knowing how
#22re: 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!
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#23re: 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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#24re: Voices For Rent is anti-lotto
Posted: 6/15/07 at 12:18amOne 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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