WannaBe, I'm not sure if this is the case with JR, but for those of us who don't live in the city it's $20, plus hotel, plus food, plus plane ticket...at the end of the day it's quite a lot to see a show you love.
I feel incredibly fortunate that I can (barely) afford it, but it is pretty tough to make it there to watch some of these great productions.
Having said that, there's only a fantastic DVD of the original production out there, as radically different as this revival is supposed to be, it makes no sense (in terms of money) to record this production for commercial release.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"