I got tickets for Friday January 2nd, and I will say this is the most amount of money I have EVER spent for theater tickets. My boyfriend's mom will be here for the holidays and she has never seen it so...having said that I only got the midprice tickets. I think they go up to $250 which I think is absurd.
I go to the Pantages every week. Have season tickets plus see the show more than once... It's so much cheaper buying the ticket AT the box office... ticketmaster adds soooo many fees, its ridiculous.
I saw the show last Thursday and while I enjoyed it, the sound was TERRIBLE. It sounded like the system couldn't handle that many actors on stage. You could hear a crackling sound almost like an overload. An embarrassment on the theatre.
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
Was there on Monday and the sound was great. Loved Emma Hinton and Cassie Okenka (Glinda U/S) was very very strong. Actually the entire cast (Kim zimmer, Nick Adams, Etai Ben shlomo) were all in fine voice. The only negative was Tim Kurzerunsky's wizard.
Sound at Pantages is really hit or miss in my experience.
I just checked out ticketmaster through the Pantages site and there seems to be cheap tickets in the mezz and scattered main floor for matinee and regular shows, not expensive. Best of luck I say is going to box office in person.
I just bought a ticket for Wicked at the Pantages. It's a fortune! It cost about $50 more than a similarly located (center orchestra) seat for the new POTO tour. Still Wicked is not the most expensive show on tour -- if I recall, BOM was hauling in $400 a piece for center orchestra seats at the Kennedy Center a year or two ago, and the show STILL sold out in a few hours!
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.