This strikes me as, first, a straw-man-esque argument, and second, a suggestion equally implausible and in the nature of back-seat driving.
The issue, of course, is not if a Broadway house has ever run out, but what would happen if they allowed everyone to take extras with abandon. I assume running out has happened on rare occasion, but that's irrelevant. It is also irrelevant that your taking of extras that don't belong to you is modest and innocuous in purpose; you are obviously aware that there are people selling multiple copies on ebay etc that were obviously taken for that purpose.
Do you seriously think that playbill wants to go into the penny-ante business of selling playbills it retrieved from theatres? If you want a playbill for a show, they will sell it to you, from stock. And finally, if you are laboring under the notion that playbill calculates its press runs by multiplying performances times seats, you are wrong. |
