I think the "selling out" they announce is more marketing than reality. I was going to be traveling to Phoenix and Denver when the tour was in those cities earlier this year, so I looked at what was available. Both productions had seats for most dates. Many were the high-priced tickets, but I also saw some that were regularly-priced. And, of course, you could get tickets in Chicago or London pretty readily at the same time.
Many of these venues have lots of set asides for various constituent groups (subscribers at different levels, donors at different levels, etc.) with multiple on-sale dates, so it's inevitable that all of the inventory allotments aren't really going to completely disappear (they trickle out to the public at some point). And, of course, they have the lottery seats for every performance as well as house seats. I don't know if any of this is different from other megahits of the past. Online seating charts present a more complete picture than in the past. |
