Thursday, May 04, 2023
Broadway on the Cheap: How To Get Rush and Lottery Tickets
New York Theater: Below is a chart showing a list of discounted tickets via lottery and rush for each current Broadway show, presented in the tradition of the useful (but sadly no longer updated) website Broadway for Broke People. The practice of discounted rush tickets (where you line up, usually on the morning of the performance) began with the musical “Rent” in 1997, when theater lovers often camped out in front of the theater overnight, for a chance at $20 tickets in the first two rows, at a time when regular ticket prices for Broadway shows had already begun their steep ascent to prohibitively expensive.
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As nice as rush/ lottery Broadway tickets sound, they are not as glorious as it seems to be. On my last trip to New York City we rushed Broadway tickets to The Great Gatsby and our tickets ended up being a bit more than $100 per person. And yes, this is cheap for a Broadway show ticket, however, our seats were very, very back, and all the way to the side. As a rush ticket you would think that these seats would be much cheaper because of how bad the sidelines and quality of those seats were. I would assume the original cost of the tickets were about 130, so our last minute lottery tickets (that would have gone un-sold if not for us) should have been much cheaper, especially for the quality of seats we had. It's such a good idea in theory and a great way to make either affordable, however, the system should be fixed.
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