187.50 for first row mezz for LION KING. Totally worth every penny. It was an amazing seat and I bought it last minute from the hotel I was staying at.
I've had $90-100 tickets bought for me, but not lately.
The most I've paid personally for a Broadway show is $55 for Rent. I tend to rush, or hold out for advance ticket discounts (Nothing could beat the $20 for Glass Menagerie last summer!).
Although when I lived in London, I'd frequently pay 40 pounds plus fees for West End tickets. I just convinced myself not to do the exchange rates in my head. :)
My uncle got me a pair of tix to RENT with the original cast for Christmas 1996. He paid $700 for the pair. Imagine that 10 years ago!
(I only found out because I had to pick them up from the ticket broker he bought them from, but I thought they were for a client, so I thought nothing of looking at the CC receipt!)
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
the most i've paid for a show was something like $120.45 for Jersey Boys like a month after it opened. i got a GREAT seat, though. and no slips of paper in the book.
that'd be fun to hear! what's the most you ever paid for a show that the actual actors you paid to see weren't in?! hahaha
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
Last time I was in Las Vegas, about $140 for Cirque du Solei O, and before that about $125 for one of Sigfried and Roy's final shows. And both times were very rear orch.
Ticket broker's price for a Second Row-Center seat for the closing show of The Boy from Oz( regular price was $ 350 pp for orchestra ) - very memorable and unforgettable theatre experience! Also, I had to fly from Asia to see the show
Now I am doing it again - I'm flying to Sydney to see TBFO in Australia, for the arena spectacular version. Premium seats are even higher than Broadway.
I have also chased my favourite musical, Les Miserables, in three cities ( London, New York, and Paris) - that really adds up to the cost of the ticket.
Crazy, huh --
but as I have just heard Angela Lansbury say in a re-run of Murder She Wrote -- there are only three things that one cannot get enough of :
Three words..Babs in Philly........and NO I am not going to admit how much I paid.....Bitch better sing As If We Never Said Goodbye!
" I wish that the stage were as narrow as a tightrope wire, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." -- Goethe (he wants you to go to my Myspace page www.myspace.com/jasonklemm
$111 for Sweeney Todd when it first opened before discounts.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...