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| Posted by: | portenopete 04:19 pm EST 01/21/15 |
| In reply to: | Hamilton tickets available for tomorrow - cjmclaughlin10 03:08 pm EST 01/21/15 |
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| Got very excited until I saw they are $120 a pop. When did The Public start charging those prices? | |
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| re: Hamilton tickets available for tomorrow | |
| Posted by: | AC126748 04:26 pm EST 01/21/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Hamilton tickets available for tomorrow - portenopete 04:19 pm EST 01/21/15 |
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| When they realized there are plenty of people happy to pay them. I believe FUN HOME and HERE LIES LOVE were the first Public shows to charge $100+. | |
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| Did Fun Home really hit 100? I bought a ticket for the extension | |
| Posted by: | Esther 04:56 pm EST 01/21/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Hamilton tickets available for tomorrow - AC126748 04:26 pm EST 01/21/15 |
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| and I know I didn't pay that much for it. I think it was around 65.00 & I wasn't a member at the time. | |
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| re: Did Fun Home really hit 100? I bought a ticket for the extension | |
| Posted by: | BroadwayTonyJ 05:05 pm EST 01/21/15 |
| In reply to: | Did Fun Home really hit 100? I bought a ticket for the extension - Esther 04:56 pm EST 01/21/15 |
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| I paid $95 for FUN HOME in Nov., 2013, but it was worth it. I've seen tons of shows at the Public over the last 20 years for only $20 a ticket (or a little more for a show like HERE LIES LOVE) so I don't mind paying $122 for HAMILTON because it's become such a must-see event. | |
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| I signed up for a membership this season because of Hamilton | |
| Posted by: | Esther 05:21 pm EST 01/21/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Did Fun Home really hit 100? I bought a ticket for the extension - BroadwayTonyJ 05:05 pm EST 01/21/15 |
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| figuring it'd be too hard to get tickets when the general public sale started. As it was, even during the members-only sale period, I had a hard time getting a decent seat for the date I wanted. I'm thinking I snagged a Fun Home ticket w/the last discount code they issued when the first extension was announced. After reading all the (justifiably) rapturous reviews here, I didn't want to miss a shot at seeing it in case it didn't live on in NYC | |
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| I must be the luckiest person alive | |
| Posted by: | AC126748 06:39 pm EST 01/21/15 |
| In reply to: | I signed up for a membership this season because of Hamilton - Esther 05:21 pm EST 01/21/15 |
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| I bought a $20 "obstructed view" ticket to FUN HOME that was supposed to be in the last row, right next to the call booth. When I went into the theatre to be seated, the usher told me to wait because they were going to re-seat me. A few minutes later, I was shown to my new seat: third row on the aisle. It must have been a good karma day for me. | |
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| Nice! That's the exact seat I had for the extension & 65 bucks (3rd row aisle) | |
| Posted by: | Esther 09:50 pm EST 01/21/15 |
| In reply to: | I must be the luckiest person alive - AC126748 06:39 pm EST 01/21/15 |
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| Happened to me once at a Kinks concert at Nassau Coliseum. Had nosebleed seats in the upper level halfway across the arena from the stage. Ended up in the fourth row of the section closest to the stage giving me way better seats than my (ex) friends who were also there, but "forgot" to invite me when they bought their tix. Karma all around that night :) | |
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| re: Did Fun Home really hit 100? I bought a ticket for the extension | |
| Posted by: | AC126748 05:02 pm EST 01/21/15 |
| In reply to: | Did Fun Home really hit 100? I bought a ticket for the extension - Esther 04:56 pm EST 01/21/15 |
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| By the end of the run (it was extended four times), tickets were selling for $105. | |
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| Thanks. I think I likely grabbed a ticket for the first extension as soon as | |
| Posted by: | Esther 05:23 pm EST 01/21/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Did Fun Home really hit 100? I bought a ticket for the extension - AC126748 05:02 pm EST 01/21/15 |
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| they went on sale w/a discount code that expired shortly after. | |
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| re: Hamilton tickets available for tomorrow | |
| Posted by: | portenopete 04:36 pm EST 01/21/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Hamilton tickets available for tomorrow - AC126748 04:26 pm EST 01/21/15 |
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| I can stomach commercial producers thinking along those lines, but for a theatre that started as a free theatre geared towards the middle and lower classes, it seems particularly awful. I have no problem with keeping last minute premium seats back and charging a fortune to the elite, but when you have to pay those prices the first day of booking (and for a second preview).....I don't know....it just seems wrong. As I understand it, there's been a growing trend towards making more and more of the Delacorte seats purchasable in advance, especially when there's a Streep or Kline involved: is the idea of free Shakespeare going to evaporate, too? [And does anyone know what the lines were like in the '60s and '70s? Was it always a camp out all day situation, or overnight?] | |
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| re: Hamilton tickets available for tomorrow | |
| Posted by: | AC126748 05:01 pm EST 01/21/15 |
| In reply to: | re: Hamilton tickets available for tomorrow - portenopete 04:36 pm EST 01/21/15 |
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| I have no problem with keeping last minute premium seats back and charging a fortune to the elite, but when you have to pay those prices the first day of booking (and for a second preview).....I don't know....it just seems wrong. Non-for-profit theatres still have to make money and support themselves in the areas that are not covered by grants, donations, public funds, etc. Like it or not, they have to follow market trends. It's not just The Public, either. Unfortunately, we don't live in 1975 anymore, when a top price of $20 would have been seen as astronomical. A company like the Public, or the Donmar, or Lincoln Center can afford to set aside a handful of tickets to sell at $20 or $30 to students or as general rush, but to expect them to sell all their tickets at an incredibly low price is simply no longer feasible. The only reason Signature can charge $25 for all tickets to its productions (through their initial runs, at least) is because those tickets are massively underwritten; that would have to be the case for any well-sized theatre company to do so. | |
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