Sunday, July 03, 2016
Broadway on a Budget
OnStage: For all those theatre loving college students out there, summer break means trips to New York City to catch the newest and hottest Broadway shows. But with ticket prices rising each year, how can the broke college student afford to catch up with the new Broadway season? Thankfully, there are a number of ways the Broadway community has made theatre accessible to everyone, even those on a budget.
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This is great that the theatre is becoming more assessable to people. The arts a really great thing and everyone at some point in there life should experience a show. They are breath taking with all the things that happen from the amazing actors to the crazy lights and sets. But shows like hamilton are really hard to see and like mentions in article getting tickets is next to impossible. But others shows you can get for a reasonable price, it makes it easy to go see a few shows in a short trip and not break the bank. But it doesn't come with out risk of not getting tickets but i think its a risk willing to take to be able to see some amazing broad way shows that aren't hamilton.
This informative and explanatory article highlights an issue that so many theatre-loving people, both young and old, have today: how in the world are we supposed to see anything on Broadway? The most recent, prominent Broadway musical with this issue is, of course, Lin Manual Miranda's Hamilton. If you want a ticket to see Hamilton on Broadway for tomorrow's 8:00 performance, you could be forced to shell out thousands of dollars, even for a not-so-great seat in the famous Richard Rogers Theatre. Even if you wanted to sit in the very back nosebleed seats of the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles for the fall of 2017-- more than one year from now, you would have to pay more than 500 dollars per ticket. While it is fantastic that productions like Hamilton have become so popular and reached audiences who never gave theatre of any sort a though before, it unfortunately has not make theatre more accessible as the show has become more and more famous and as tickets have become higher and higher in demand. Tricks like this article mentions; rush tickets, lottery tickets, and the standing room, can help sometimes for last minute tickets, but chances like these to see shows like Hamilton are extremely difficult to come by, not fully fixing the issue of accessibility to Broadway shows for every possible audience members.
This article was very informative for me. I've never been to a Broadway show and was always curious on how seating works for when something is close to being sold out and how an average person can purchase one. I always thought it would be impossible for me to go to a Broadway show anytime, but it's exciting to know I have these small but exciting chances to get that ability. The same goes for everyone. There are people that have financial problems or just aren't able to leisurely spend a Broadway ticket but they should get a chance to experience a show at such a great artistic level. There have been recent shows that have been highly praise and critically acclaimed, which makes it harder to obtain a ticket and makes you feel worse when you can get one. So with opportunities like standing room and rush tickets, normal people get the sliver of opportunity to maybe watch a production that will be talked about for decades and for a very reasonable price.
It is great to know that there are ways for the average person to obtain tickets to Broadway shows. Shelling out hundreds or thousands of dollars to see a show is not something that everyone is able to do. Because of where I live, I am able to get to New York City semi-frequently, but I know that not everyone is as fortunate. More often than not, trips to NYC might only happen a handful of times, if even that. If you only get to go to NYC once, naturally you would want to make the most of it and see as many shows as possible. But it is not always feasible, money wise, to attend multiple shows in one trip. I especially like that Broadway is targeting young people. We are the next generation of performs and audience members, and each is equally as vital to the success of the other.
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