I may be completely wrong, but I think that the tickets are too expensive to have no discounts. Looking at the highest priced tickets, at $199, there have only been two Broadway plays in history that have had non-premium tickets at $199, and those are Harry Potter and To Kill a Mockingbird. Angels in America was at $169, with two "names" in the cast, and it still struggled to sell at that price.
Didn't Angels in America give the chance to get combined tickets? That was also on Telecharge, so the technology is there. I don't know why they aren't doing that here. With that, and five performances of Part One and three performances of Part Two each week, the producers seem to be making it seem like it's optional to attend both parts, which is not my understanding of the structure of the piece.
Again, I may be completely wrong, but with only three performances of Part Two, it does not seem that they are looking to cast a strong box office draw in Vanessa Redgrave's role. By the way, I am not sure Vanessa Redgrave is a strong box office draw here. The Year of Magical Thinking was just okay at the box office, and I think her star power has gone down since then. |
