| re: Any word on Othello pricing? | |
| Last Edit: mikem 01:26 pm EDT 09/06/24 | |
| Posted by: mikem 01:24 pm EDT 09/06/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Any word on Othello pricing? - FinalPerformance 12:29 pm EDT 09/06/24 | |
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| I am also going less and less. Pricing is ridiculous, and I am also buying a lot fewer shows in advance. I'm not sure I understand why discount codes have mostly fallen by the wayside. Discount codes encouraged buying in advance, at least for me. Now there's little incentive to buy early except for a sure-fire sellout like Othello. I know I can sell my Othello ticket if it's bad, so it doesn't feel like a risk. The only other shows I currently have tickets for are McNeal (where I can get a refund as a Lincoln Center member) and Gypsy. Huskyital, I agree that the creep of premium-priced tickets beyond the best seats is a big problem. There were always the high-rollers who were willing to pay crazy prices for the prime seats, but now there are crazy prices for not-so-great seats. It wasn't that long ago that prices weren't like this. I think August: Osage County was the first (non-musical) play to break the $100 price point for non-premium pricing in 2008 (dramedy, is that right?), and I think the few seats that were premium were $250. And here we are, 18 years later, and even a show like Oh Mary! seems to have almost every seat in the orchestra, even quite far to the side, at $350. Cumulative inflation over those 18 years should have brought the non-premium price from $100 to $146. In addition to greedy producers, I think there are just too many people in Manhattan and elsewhere who are in a financial situation where they don't blink at these prices. It's also true for nicer restaurants and hotels, concert tickets, etc. That's great news for them, but not-so-great news for the rest of us. |
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