Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Best day to ensure seeing Bette
brdwybuff
Stand-by Joined: 4/25/16
#1Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/15/16 at 2:09pm
If Midler is not in every show, what would be the best day of the week to buy tickets for? Or what day not to buy tickets for?
neonlightsxo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
#2Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/15/16 at 2:12pm
As we're discussing in the other thread, we don't know yet. Sorry.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#3Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/15/16 at 2:17pm
brdwybuff said: "If Midler is not in every show, what would be the best day of the week to buy tickets for? Or what day not to buy tickets for?"
The safest plan to ensure seeing her would be Fridays or Saturday evenings. Those are going to be the nights with the best ticket sales for any show, and any producer would be a fool to agree to let their headlining star have those as the performances when an alternate takes the role (unless they somehow manage to line up an alternate with an equally large pull on the box office).
brdwybuff
Stand-by Joined: 4/25/16
#4Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/17/16 at 1:27am
Just to see Bette, I would go for a Frid or Sat evening show. I'm curious about the price ranges before tomorrow. Not much info has been released. What is the website that is selling the tickets?
#5Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/17/16 at 1:34am
You should probably read the aforementioned other thread.
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1089730&dt=431
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
brdwybuff
Stand-by Joined: 4/25/16
#6Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/17/16 at 3:43pm
Got my tickets for a Friday in May. Orchestra center Row M. Seems like tickets sold out in a matter of minutes...at least for the dates I tried for.
Did anyone get tickets for this yet?
#7Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/17/16 at 4:00pm
She is scheduled to perform for all performances that went on sale today. Ticket for her alternate's performances will go on sale at a later date.
#8Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/18/16 at 1:39am
brdwybuff said: "Got my tickets for a Friday in May. Orchestra center Row M. Seems like tickets sold out in a matter of minutes...at least for the dates I tried for.
Did anyone get tickets for this yet?"
I doubt most of the house was available for sale. The tickets available today may have sold out, though.
#9Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/18/16 at 1:45am
It seems like an odd strategy to intentionally withhold tickets when demand is strong, I would have thought...I wonder why they did this (if they did).
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
DeRubaJ
Chorus Member Joined: 9/17/16
#10Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/18/16 at 3:52am
Why do people even care? We do not know even if this revival is going to be any good. I hate when people just see big names. Some of the best performances and shows I have seen are not big shows . Like Fun Home which I saw an understudy for Bruce I thought his performance was amazing and the show good. I also saw She Loves Me and while not small . I very much doubt many OS tourists would have bothered but I loved it.
I saw all the hype for American Psycho and know some friends who saw Idina in If/Then. And I am over big names would rather see a show because it is well written rather then a star
Broadway is more than just big names and big shows.
I really want to see Dear Evan Hansen though
#11Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/18/16 at 8:22am
DeRubaJ said: "Why do people even care? We do not know even if this revival is going to be any good. I hate when people just see big names."
I, too, hate when people decide to do things they enjoy and then discuss the process of going through with it!
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/18/16 at 8:27pm
DeRubaJ said: "Why do people even care? We do not know even if this revival is going to be any good. I hate when people just see big names. Some of the best performances and shows I have seen are not big shows . Like Fun Home which I saw an understudy for Bruce I thought his performance was amazing and the show good. I also saw She Loves Me and while not small . I very much doubt many OS tourists would have bothered but I loved it.
I saw all the hype for American Psycho and know some friends who saw Idina in If/Then. And I am over big names would rather see a show because it is well written rather then a star
Broadway is more than just big names and big shows.
Quite frankly, I don't care who's playing Dolly. I 've been been fanatically in love with the show since 1964 and I can't wait to see it another dozen times!
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"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Updated On: 9/18/16 at 08:27 PM
#14Best day to ensure seeing Bette
Posted: 9/18/16 at 9:22pm
Oh man, this is gonna be Rochelle, Rochelle all over again...
