June 05, 2005

Even if I lived in NYC I couldn't go

I love theater, and watching the Tonys made me wonder how much a ticket would cost, so I went to Broadway.com to see. (Lance wrote about this recently). I thought I'd like to see Spamalot, but it appears to be sold out, even on Wednesday nights. So I thought I'd try Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Fine; I can get a seat on Wednesday the 15th for the paltry sum of $91.25 plus an $18 service charge. That means a single ticket would cost me $109.25.* Hmm. I heard Edward Albee on the News Hour Friday night; he said the first production of that play cost something under $100 thousand back in the early 1950s. The current edition cost $40 million or so.

Who can afford Broadway anymore?

*Yeah, yeah, I know there are discounters, but still.

Posted by Linkmeister at June 5, 2005 10:01 PM
Comments

Ahhh, but if you lived in NYC you'd know about the TKTS booth. You can get discounted, day of show tickets for lots of Broadway shows there. Of course, big shows like Spamalot probably won't be available there for quite some time, but there are lots of other things to see.

Posted by: Kim at June 6, 2005 06:01 AM