Actually, I go to around 75 live music shows per year (not musical theater though) and I think scalpers should fry in hell. I wasn’t addressing that though.
Guess I had a hard time parsing the target of your ire, then. My bad; sorry.
Probably my bad. I was pointing out Drunky Smurf’s hypocrisy in making this a political issue.
Plus, anyone who’s anyone knows the best way to virtue signal is to NOT virtue signal.
I thought the best way to virtue signal was to accuse others of virtue signaling. It signals that you yourself are too virtuous to virtue signal, after all.
Yup. I wasn’t paying attention to the Los Angeles production since I’m on the other side of the country and have already seen it in NYC, so I just checked the thread about it on BroadwayWorld and read people saying they got their tickets in April for $85.
It also says this on Ticketmaster:
It’s virtue signaling all the way down!
Anytime I hear anything from the show on the Sirius broadway channel I hate it so I get to save me lots of money.
I saw it, but I paid a lot less for it. It was great!
As others have said, if you really want to see it there’s no reason to pay those extravagant prices. You can get in for $250 or so to most shows, though not the best seats.
You’ll be fine with the wallet, but if that bad mother fucker has a briefcase with him, let that go.
Many times I read this board and can never quite remember if I’m thinking of the right poster. For example, I know that there’s two really sarcastic posters. But how to tell them apart? Which is which?
Up there is the tedious one.
And this is the funny one.
Drunky Smurf usually does a troll impersonation and then moves on to find another thread to shit on. Just ignore him.
It’s just an outrage that Lin-Manuel himself hasn’t arranged $10 front-row seats (forty for the whole family!) for your whole entitled clan.
You should send the kids by themselves. They have a chance to actually learn something about real values. Not those of their sire, the reincarnation of self-serving Burr (who actually claims in the show that he was the one who paid for the duel’s outcome - not the dead guy, his widow or seven half-orphaned children).
Hey, looks like I made a new friend. Please enjoy your stay. Don’t mind the dog barking. He does that when someone is SHITTING ALL OVER MY FAMILY AND ME!
My apologies. I had no intention of shitting over your family, who are innocent in this childish tirade.
I have tickets for Chicago - it wasn’t cheap (about $300 a ticket). But I’ve spent $100 or more on a touring company coming through Minneapolis. In fact, I also have tickets to In the Heights when it comes through St. Paul - at more than $100.
I’ll wait until it’s on Netflix.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Dang, I can go see a baseball game for 30 bucks. And, they got foot-long hot dogs.
Pass.
If you aren’t a stage musical person, that’s a great option - or even, don’t bother. My husband goes to concerts. I don’t really get concerts - there are a few I’ve been to, but I’d never spend $200 on a concert ticket…not my thing at all. He’s flying over to Europe to see some band, I don’t even know which one … I’m going to Chicago to see Hamilton.
It is a shame that the nature of some events makes seeing the live version a different experience (concerts, sports, plays), but in doing so that creates a limit on how much of it can be sold, which will impact the supply demand curve and put it out of reach for people who are really interested in it.
Hamilton will have a long run, with a lot of tours over time. (Hey, I saw Rent on tour last year - there is a dated musical - but its still a profitable tour). A professional production will never be cheap to see, but this tour is going to be expensive and difficult to get tickets to - and it will be a hot ticket on Broadway for a long time (Wicked is still a hot ticket on Broadway). The next time its in town, Icarus will probably be able to get tickets at their face value - but that could be a few years.