Just got MTC's discount mailer for their off-Broadway production of The Madrid, which will begin at City Center February 5.
The supposed "discount" is a price of $59.00.
That was fiull price just a few years ago.
It is a free market and they can charge whatever they want, but there is no way I am paying $59 as an off-broadway "discount". Watch every other producer see gold and raise their "discounted" prices as well.
We are well on our way for theatre being a hobby of the 1%.
I thought off-Broadway was safe but I guess not
Thanks, MTC. I'll spend my money elsewhere. Have fun with your overpriced production.
Shows seen in 2013 (NYC unless otherwise noted): 1/12 The Other Place; 1/12 Golden Boy; 1/13 The Heiress ; 1/19 Pippin (A.R.T.); 1/26 All in the Timing; 1/26 Water by the Spoonful; 1/27 Bare; 2/3 Fools (Ocean State Theatre); 2/8 Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking!; 2/9 Cinderella; 2/9 Really, Really; 2/10 Mary Poppins (seen previously in London and Broadway); 2/24 Man in a Case (Hartford Stage); 3/9 Hands on a Hardbody; 3/20 Social Creatures (Trinity Rep, Providence RI); 3/23 Matilda; 3/23 Motown: The Musical; 3/24 Kinky Boots (saw pre-Broadway run in Chicago); 4/6 Same Time, Next Year: The Musical; 4/6 Ann; 4/7 Lucky Guy; 4/13 By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lyric Stage, Boston); 4/14 Pirates of Penzance (Brown University); 4/20 Breakfast at Tiffany's; 4/20 Orphans; 4/21 The Last Five Years; 4/27 The King and I (Ocean State Theatre); 5/4 Pippin (previously seen at ART, Cambridge); 5/4 Jekyll & Hyde; 5/5 I'll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers; 5/11 The Trip to Bountiful; 5/23 Seussical (MoezArt Productions, Phoenix); 6/1 The Fabulous Lipitones (Goodspeed) ; 6/9 Good News (Goodspeed); 6/15 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; 6/15 Reasons to be Happy; 6/16 The Nance ... Forthcoming: 6/23 I'm Conneticut (Ivoryton Playhouse); 6/29 Andrew Sisters (Ardunel Barn Playhouse); 6/29 Deathtrap (Portland Lyric Music Theatre); 6/30 Thoroughly Modern Millie (Ogunquit Playhouse); 7/13 Cats (Theatre by the Sea); 7/20 Fiddler on the Roof (Reagle Players, Waltham MA); 7/21 Hello, Dolly! (Goodspeed); 7/28 You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Seacoast Rep); 8/3 LMNOP (Goodspeed); 8/10 The Bridges of Madison County (Williamstown Theatre Festival); 8/11 Blood Play (Williamstown Theatre Festival); 8/17 Murder Room (2nd Story Theatre); 8/24 First Date; 9/22 The Jungle Book (Huntington Theatre, Boston); 9/28 Big Fish; 11/16 700 Sundays
Yes, and ten years ago tickets to a play on Broadway were $75-80 for prime orchestra seats. Now the average is well over $100. Times change.
I bought a ticket to THE MADRID using the discount code. $59 is a good price, whether you're willing to pay it or not. And the regular price for non-profit Off-Broadway theatres has risen over the years--that's just a fact. Non-member tickets at MTC, The Public, LCT, etc are regularly $70-80. Signature tickets after the initial $25 run jump up to $75. If you're really surprised by this discount price then you must not attend theatre very often.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
That's a steal for a show with Edie Falco. I mean, I can pay up to $50 dollars for a play at local professional, non-equity theatre company here in Buffalo.
Stop whining-don't go.
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Posted: 1/23/13 at 09:11pm