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| Posted by: Chazwaza 01:30 pm EDT 10/21/17 | |
| In reply to: re: simple solution I've found: - BroadwayTonyJ 10:47 am EDT 10/21/17 | |
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| The thing with "hot" shows like Frozen and Harry Potter, specifically, is that they are hot tickets without regard to the quality or cleverness of the actual show. People would buy top dollar tickets just because they exist, and even if/when people start to say the shows aren't that amazing, it will not deter the very large core fan group from seeing for themselves. Hamilton I would have paid $200 for, luckily when I saw it the top price was like $150 and I got mine for $100 and didn't know how difficult and expensive it would be to see it when it moved to bway... but that is about the quality of the material and experience of seeing it. I highly doubt I'll have that from Frozen or Potter. I may see both eventually but I won't even pay $100 for either. And I don't know the material of the Potter *play* (though I've heard some less than stellar things about it from London) but I did see the movie Frozen and I know the material just isn't actually very good. But sometimes for the monster hits, like The Producers or Book of Mormon, you just have to be will to spend 6 hours sitting in line for rush tickets or even cancelation tickets. No show before has ever been like Hamilton in terms of the insane and impossible lines and wait time for rush or cancelation. The craziest I've been was getting to the Producers line at like 2am and waiting till 10am for the tickets, but I had a fun night with friends and we did it when it was warm. For Mormon, I stood for many hours but it was broken up by a friend bringing lunch and picnicking with me... one might be surprised how quickly these things go by if you have podcasts and a book. And then you have the ticket for an amazing price and you see the show with the original cast, and you never have to think of it again. This is actually why I prefer Rush to Lotto... I want to know if I commit and put in the time that I'll be rewarded with the cheap ticket prize, rather than taking the chance with a lotto and likely never seeing it. I've played a lotto for the same show 10 times and not won (i mean for Hamilton probably played/lost 150 times). And then, if you're in from out of town, you may never been able to see it at least with that cast because in some cases paying full price isn't even an option while you're there and available. |
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