Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends

[billynj]

Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#1

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:27am

take a look at this, I am speechlees http://tixxalert.blogspot.com/2007/06/mel-brooks-new-muscial-young.html
Tixx alert

[GYPSY1527]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#2

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:29am

Hahahaha! Hilarious! Brooks has got major balls for doing this. Oh well, it'll probably sell out cause well people are dumb. Really dumb.

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[Yankeefan007]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#2

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:29am

Ain't very surprising. Take it if you can get it.

[jordangirl]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#3

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:30am

Thanks god this wasn't on my want to see list.

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[GYPSY1527]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#4

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:31am

What do you mean by "Take it if you get it"? Just wondering...

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[misschung]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#5

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:32am

Are they serious? So what the hell is the rush price going to be?

Thankfully I know someone in this show. One ticket shouldn't cost more than my car insurance..

The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#6

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:33am

Ugh.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[Yankeefan007]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#7

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:33am

What does "take it if you can get it" sound like?

If you can get $451 a ticket, who'd turn it down?

[somethingwicked]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#8

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:33am

"So what the hell is the rush price going to be?"

There's not going to be rush.

Though nothing official's been decided, Brooks threw around the idea of a lotto that would raffle off the last row of the balcony (though that has only been mentioned the one time someone from sales brought up any sort of 'discounted' arrangement.)

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Updated On: 6/22/07 at 10:33 AM

[Bobby Maler]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#9

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:36am

I'm not going to believe this until I see it.
They could possibly end up shooting themselves in the foot.

[billynj]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#10

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:38am

I think they could cause too high an expecation with prices this high..causing the show to flop in reviews

[Unknown User]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#11

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:41am

How much were scalpers getting for Producers Tickets?

Isn't it better that the show gets the outrageous prices instead of the scalpers?

[Steve2]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#12

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:44am

Just a few days ago, people were commenting on Legally Blonde's $120 ticket price.

[Auggie27]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#13

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:46am

Won't happen. He's arrogant, but not that arrogant. Remember when David Merrick planned to open a 2nd company of 42nd STREET? Big ideas have a way of ... getting smaller.

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[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#14

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:46am

$451 is the premium price, so the TKTS price will never be $225, as suggested in the typo-filled article, which appears to have been written by a first grader. Take it for what it is. Wait until you hear it from a credible source.

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[avab802]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#15

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:49am

Joe, it is better that the show get the money and not scalpers, but when is enough enough? Will we someday see "premium" seats going for $1000 a ticket? It's getting a bit ridiculous.

[misschung]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#16

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:50am

Yeah - I mean there are premium tickets to other shows for like $250, so its not like he's the first.

Brooks threw around the idea of a lotto that would raffle off the last row of the balcony (though that has only been mentioned the one time someone from sales brought up any sort of 'discounted' arrangement.)

I know this isnt written in stone yet, but that is so ghetto, I'm sorry. Last row of the balcony...?

The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?

[Johnnytoc]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#17

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:53am

Oh dear God, that is just ridiculous. Of course if people end up buying them at these prices, why should they changes them?

[chicolini]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#18

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:53am

As long as people are willing to pay for it, ticket prices will go up. Is it fair? Probably not, but I don't blame them for trying.

Foster's right about the questionable source, though. Let's wait to see what actual posted prices are before we bring out the Mel Brooks effigy. (Did we even get it cleaned up after the last burning?)

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[ThankstoPhantom]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#19

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:58am

I hate the whole premium seat thing.

At least the scalpers bought the tickets. "It was not fair! We're were not getting the big bucks!" Yeah...but your tickets were being purchased anyway by the scalpers. You were still making money.

Greed.

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[lyntom]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#20

Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:59am

hmmm......why don't they say who their reliable source is?

[millie_dillmount]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#21

Posted: 6/22/07 at 11:03am

WHAT?!?!?!?!?!

If this is true, then I am never seeing this show. Dammit, I was looking forward to it.

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[kasim]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#22

Posted: 6/22/07 at 11:16am

i'm not suprised.

Premium seats for Jersey boys are $350.

I remember just a few years ago premium seats for wicked were only 230 ... now that wasnt that bad.

EH as much as this annoys the **** out of me.... better the theatre than the scalpers. And trust me they DO charge that much

[istillbelieve24601]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#23

Posted: 6/22/07 at 11:18am

IS THIS FOR REAL??

Dammit, going to see YF with my family was going to be the highlight of my autumn. Don't they realize that a lot of fans can't come to see the show during the week? They are going to loose so much money on this.

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[bjh2114]

re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends#24

Posted: 6/22/07 at 11:22am

Kasim, the difference is that Jersey Boys made that the premium price after they started winning awards. Brooks is going solely off of the Producers success. If he is going to charge that much, I hope he gets what's coming to him. Cause let me tell you, unless that show is perfect in every aspect, it's going to flop due to those ticket prices and being in that barn of a theatre.