Patrick gets you $49 seats (approx $62 with taxes and fees).
Sandy is 2 tix for the price of 1.
And hottix is half price tickets (again, before fees). All these codes can be entered directly into Ticketmaster. Good luck! Seen the show twice and loved it both times - and I'm not even a Spongebob fan.
It has less to do with "Chicago theater pricing" and everything to do with "ridiculous Ticketmaster price-gouging monopoly."
There are literally a hundred Chicago theaters that don't charge those kinds of fees and Ticketmaster charges those kinds of fees all over this great nation.