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Friday, January 19, 2007
For Broadway, It Was a Very Good Year
NPR: "Broadway's theaters got a great holiday gift at the end of 2006: Attendance and box office surpassed previous records, and revenues were close to $30 million during the week of Dec. 25."
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Funny. The ticketing about premium rate on Broadway seems the sale by auction, the financial game as well.
Agree with that the extra money should go back to the show, to the stagehands who are actually making the show taken place every night. They work hard, sweat and get hurt at times for it, rather than the brokers and scalpers.
It's hard to imagine who would actually spend the money on premium tickets. While odds are for a more popular show, your seats won't be all that good if you go to the TKTS booth, I have gotten amazing seats at normal prices, and at a student price of $20. For example for Wicked I got normal, full price tickets and got seats in the first mezzanine, row A. And then at Lincoln Center, with the $20 student tickets, I've gotten front and center orchestra tickets. I suppose though it's all in the luck of availability. But still - $500 for a seat is just absurd.
2 comments:
Funny. The ticketing about premium rate on Broadway seems the sale by auction, the financial game as well.
Agree with that the extra money should go back to the show, to the stagehands who are actually making the show taken place every night. They work hard, sweat and get hurt at times for it, rather than the brokers and scalpers.
It's hard to imagine who would actually spend the money on premium tickets. While odds are for a more popular show, your seats won't be all that good if you go to the TKTS booth, I have gotten amazing seats at normal prices, and at a student price of $20. For example for Wicked I got normal, full price tickets and got seats in the first mezzanine, row A. And then at Lincoln Center, with the $20 student tickets, I've gotten front and center orchestra tickets. I suppose though it's all in the luck of availability. But still - $500 for a seat is just absurd.
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