What’s up with the prices for Mr. Saturday Night?

It’s basically the same as “Music Man”, besides the few $99 seats offered for that one. But yes, it’s ridiculous to charge $200 for the last row of any theater.

I hope they do a rush.

jkcohen626 said: "Fake demand basically. They know people associate higher prices with higher demand (it is a basic economic principle after all), so they jack up the prices to make it seem like a "prestige" in-demand show."

Then they’ll look at all the available seats and see none have sold and won’t buy anyway. All that theory does is get them to the Telecharge page (I think Telecharge). It doesn’t get anyone to buy tickets. It will do exactly what we’re talking about - patrons asking why charge that much for a ticket to a show that’s not selling.

broadwayindie said: "I mean the one thing consistent about ticket prices is that they are not. They don't often go "down in price" but I mean if the theatre consistently looks like... well how it currently looks like it should be an easy ticket at TKTS or rush"

Although that is still lowering your price to meet demand. The demand isn't there to sell at the current rate, so they use services like TDF and TKTS to offer tickets at prices people will pay. It's the same thing as just dropping prices, in effect.

BCfitasafiddle said: "I hope they do a rush."

At this point it seems like this will be the first rush to be over $100! Or like $99 (hey, it's still a $100 discount!)

Seems like some aggressive price anchoring going on more and more nowadays.

Has it even been advertised in Nyc?

One factor contributing to the high ticket prices could be that Billy Crystal may not want to do the show for more than six or seven months, and they may not be confident that the show would live after his departure. Crystal only did 700 Sundays for seven months 18 years ago. It was a massive success recouping its investment of $1.8 million in four weeks and grossed about $22 million during its run.

This one raises a LOT more questions than it answers so far. File under we shall see.

As to the pricing, they don't mean all that much any more once you get past the sucker sales. And the suckers don't buy the rear mezz at the Nederlander, at any price. As a price point, this does not seem like a bad aspiration. (But you all know what I think of aspirations. )

Good thing you don't have to, Tom!

A few thoughts prompted by this thread:

1) My belief since this was first rumored is that the venn diagram of Billy Crystal fans and Broadway musical fans is nearly a perfect circle. My expectation is that this will be a hot ticket at least at the beginning...but time will tell, and I'm managing expectations.

2) I'm guilty of complaining about stars flocking to revivals instead of new works...and here's a major actor cowriting a musical that he's passionate about, and we know he's wanted to do a Broadway musical for a long time.

3) With screen-to-stage adaptations, we often see people taking great movies and making poor musicals, instead of taking something that needs some improvement. Here's a flawed movie with decent bones (sort of a watered-down Sunshine Boys) that could perhaps be improved as a stage musical, and with Billy now being age-appropriate.