Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
billynj
Leading Actor Joined: 10/3/06
#1Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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
#2re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:29amHahahaha! Hilarious! Brooks has got major balls for doing this. Oh well, it'll probably sell out cause well people are dumb. Really dumb.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:29amAin't very surprising. Take it if you can get it.
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#3re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:30amThanks god this wasn't on my want to see list.
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
#4re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:31amWhat do you mean by "Take it if you get it"? Just wondering...
misschung
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#5re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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..
#6re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:33amUgh.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#7re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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?
#8re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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.)
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Bobby Maler
Featured Actor Joined: 1/8/07
#9re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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
Leading Actor Joined: 10/3/06
#10re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:38amI think they could cause too high an expecation with prices this high..causing the show to flop in reviews
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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?
#12re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:44amJust a few days ago, people were commenting on Legally Blonde's $120 ticket price.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#13re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:46amWon'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.
#14re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
avab802
Broadway Star Joined: 5/17/06
#15re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:49amJoe, 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#16re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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...?
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#17re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:53amOh dear God, that is just ridiculous. Of course if people end up buying them at these prices, why should they changes them?
#18re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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?)
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#19re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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.
lyntom
Swing Joined: 5/1/07
#20re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Posted: 6/22/07 at 10:59amhmmm......why don't they say who their reliable source is?
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#21re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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. 
#22re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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
Featured Actor Joined: 4/3/07
#23re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
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.
#24re: Young Frankenstein face price is $451 on weekends
Posted: 6/22/07 at 11:22amKasim, 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.
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