| re: First of all, thank you! Second, wait | |
| Posted by: donnyboy 08:07 am EDT 06/17/19 | |
| In reply to: re: First of all, thank you! Second, wait - drummergirl 10:32 pm EDT 06/16/19 | |
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| I'd wait and see which offers become available. I saw it both at the Young Vic and the Noel Coward Theatre. The Young Vic run did sell out - largely before it opened - but it has fewer than 500 seats, it was reasonably priced (I think tickets were between £10 and £38 per part), was a limited 10 week run (only about 65 performances all together - which isn't that many more that the Broadway previews) and has a built in regular audience. The West End transfer - to a 875 seat theatre for a four month run with tickets ranging from £15 to £125 per part - wasn't the boffo box office hit which has now become the stuff of legend. In fact for the first couple of months it struggled. There were many offers and it also appeared on papering services. I ended up paying £20 for front stalls seats for each part through the regular booking site - and the house definitely was not full. Toward to end of the run it did sell out at regular prices and dynamic pricing kicked in - the seat I'd sat in was going for £105. No guarantee that that pattern will be replicated in NYC but I don't think there will be a shortage of tickets nearer the time. I preferred seeing it on two separate visits (in my case a couple of weeks apart). The Young Vic padded bench seats didn't help when I saw it as an all-dayer - and there is undoubtedly some emotional heft to seeing it straight through. However I think that the flaws in the structure and writing are less apparent when you have a break between the parts. In truth - I'd have rather a long straight thought piece - I don't think there's quite enough to fill two parts of more than 3 hours each. On Angels In America - worth pointing out that it too came from a subsidised theatre - played in a house just shy of 900 seats - with tickets top price tickets at £65 per part - down to £15 - and a huge membership base. It also ran in rep and for fewer performances than in NYC (Around 45 performance of each individual play - including two-show days at the National, and 70 of each in New York). |
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