| re: There are $1499 Orchestra seats now for 'Merrily' tomorrow afternoon! | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:23 pm EDT 07/06/24 | |
| In reply to: There are $1499 Orchestra seats now for 'Merrily' tomorrow afternoon! - stryker94109 09:49 am EDT 07/06/24 | |
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| I posted some of this here in May in reply to a discussion about the Merrily ticket prices. That discussion is still on the board, but I will post it again (with some additions). Those prices are so sad to me. When I was a teenager and in my early 20s, I was able to afford orchestra seats for the closing performances of A Moon for the Misbegotten, with Robards and Dewhurst, the original productions of Pacific Overtures and Merrily We Roll Along and the final Cariou-Lansbury Sweeney Todd. Those were all productions I'd seen before, and I wanted to be there for the closing performances. I knew from a young age that closing performances were special events, at least sometimes. I sat in the orchestra for all of those, and the tickets didn't even feel expensive to me. That's obviously not going to be the case now for many people in their teens and early 20s. Later, I was at the closing performances of Sunday in the Park With George (I was also at what was supposed to be Bernadette Peters's final performance, but she came back for a performance nine days later, unannounced, when the Pulitzer committee came), Into the Woods (which wasn't even sold out, maybe because it was Labor Day weekend), and Passion. And some other shows, but I'll mention the Sondheim ones. Again, the tickets didn't even feel expensive to me, and I've never had lots of excess income. It's sad to me that people who love particular productions now can't attend closing performances unless they are extremely well-to-do. I realize that there have been, at times, much less expensive tickets for some performances of this production, but it saddens me that young people today (and older people, too) can't see such performances unless they are in the upper-income brackets or come from a very well-to-do family. FWIW, I won't feel sad about missing this closing performance. Although I did feel that this was the best production I've seen of the revision, that was only because of the three leads, and it didn't even come close to convincing me that the revision is anything other than a diminution. |
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