| Maybe Happy Ending ticket issue | |
| Posted by: aleck 09:55 am EST 01/31/25 | |
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| My normal priority for getting tickets to ANYTHING is: 1. Free. 2. TDF. 3. TKTS. The ONLY time I'm willing to go full-price retail is when people are coming in from out of town and they want to see a specific show on a specific date. This is the situation that got me roped into $300 tickets for the Hugh Jackman Music Man atrocity. An experience from which I am still bitter -- and will be until the grave. This past week, however, has made me almost as bitter. People were coming in town. (Actually they are the same people who insisted on that Hugh Jackman horror.) This time, I insisted on choosing the show. I saw Maybe Happy Ending a couple of weeks ago (on a last minute TKTS ticket) and thought this would be the perfect show for this group. (The show is indeed the best thing right now, I think, for an overall experience. A delightful book/music with a spectacular production and fantastic cast.) On Monday I went to the Telecharge site, which is the site linked from the show's website page, for tickets for last night -- Thursday, Jan. 30. Telecharge showed that it was almost completely sold out. I was unable to get four tickets together. Or two and two combinations. Otherwise completely sold out -- orchestra and mezzanine. Not ideal, but I got the four tickets and accepted that my group would be scattered all over. I bit the bullet and paid the full-price retail. To my astonishment, despite the claim that on Monday it was nearly completely sold out, the show appeared at TKTS all afternoon and right up to curtain time. Now, I know that the best time to buy a TKTS ticket is as close to curtain as possible. But this holding back of house seats -- and there must have been a ton of them all day long -- to sell at a discount when there are people willing to pay full price just a few days before has got to be reformed. If it were up to me, I would have told everyone to wait until the last minute on Thursday and save a bundle of money. But, of course, you can't rely on that if you are intent on seeing a specific show. But I bet we could have gotten four seats together -- likely in a better location and at a much, much lower cost. (We ended up in the front mezz -- row C, scattered about) Great seats. Great show. They loved it, as I did on a second viewing. But, c'mon, this massive holding back of house seats is unfair to the people willing to support a show with an advance commitment -- and Broadway in general -- by holding back the very best seats so that they can be sold at a discount at the last minute. How does this make sense? What kind of business model is that? Call me Bitter 2.0. |
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