Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
#1Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 5:51pm
Gosh, those were the days. When you could be poor and want to see a Broadway show, so you'd get in that long line on a hot day and pay a great price for a show.
How I long for the old days.
ashley0139
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#2re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 5:58pmMaybe, but now there are so many ways to get tickets for about half of half price. Not to mention programs like TDF.
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Mr Roxy
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#2re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 6:00pm
Remember twofers?
As long as regular ticket prices cintinue to go up, so will TKTS prices. It is not their fault.
Poster Emeritus
#3re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 6:25pmHalf price is what I'm talking about! $70 is way too much to pay for a half price ticket. Just being nostalgic tonight. :)
pushdabutton
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/05
#4re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 7:24pmDoes TKTS charge a service charge on each ticket?
Mr Roxy
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#5re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 7:28pm
Bottom line is $ 70 is better than $ 130 & above
Until the price of regular ticket prices stabilizes, TKTS will continue to reflect the higher prices.It is beyond their control.
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#6re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 7:38pmTKTS is often not even the best discount available. I rarely go there anymore.
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#7re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 7:48pmI've never used TKTS.
theatreguy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/31/03
#8re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 8:13pmpushdabutton, TKTS has a $4 service charge per ticket. Shows produced by members of the Broadway League have another $1 added as well.
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#9re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 8:14pmI'm confused. Is it still half price?
theatreguy
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#10re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 8:23pmIt is still half price. Well, sometimes it's 30 or 40 percent off during the busier months, but the majority of the time shows keep it at 50 percent off.
#11re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 9:25pm
Broadway is much dearer than the West End, for a top price seat in London it is about $100,so a ticket a TKTS works out to be about $50.
My annual jaunt to Broadway is very expensive, but hell sometimes you have to hang the price.
#12re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 9:51pmI have used it twice in the past 5 years. Both times I left a slot open just so I could go and stand in the line.
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#13re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 9:53pmI've only used it twice, just recently for Ruined. It was cheaper than the discount code online, but I wish they had a sign saying they only accepted cash for those tickets.
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#14re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 10:11pmLook at Mr Roxy making excuses for high prices! Back when the top ticket price hit $75 he was predicting the imminent death of Broadway and all of New York City.
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dramamama611
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#15re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 10:31pmIt was cash only for JUST Ruined tickets? That doesn't make sense. (It wasn't all that long ago that TKTS ONLY accepted cash for all shows.)
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#16re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 11:07pmI used to go all the time - pay 50 bucks for a ticket and thought it was great. For two of us to get to a show, even using TKTS, including transportation, is 200 bucks EASY. Yes, it's better than full price, but no way is that cheap!
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WishingOnlyWounds2
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#17re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 11:08pmGetting a discount code from online and going directly to the box office is the best deal nowadays I've come to learn. You avoid a lot of the extra fees and mainly get the best discount. There's also rushes, but those seem to be disappearing more and more...
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#18re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 11:10pmI'm sorry you don't enjoy theater enough to pay for it. I hear there is a lot of good stuff on TV and that is free.
WishingOnlyWounds2
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#19re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 11:11pmTV is only free until the end of the month!
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
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#20re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 11:13pmIve never used TKTS. The discount codes are better and Im choosing my seats. :) Waiting in those long cattle lines does not appeal to me either...
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#21re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/4/09 at 11:33pmAnd why isn't it called TCKTS?
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#23re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/5/09 at 12:11am
It was cash only for JUST Ruined tickets? That doesn't make sense. (It wasn't all that long ago that TKTS ONLY accepted cash for all shows.)
Yes, this actually happened to me once, too. It's something to do with the ticketing service that handles Ruined. I was all set to buy a ticket to Ruined until the man told me it was $41.50 cash only.
With regards to the TKTS prices in general, as someone pointed out, for the most part, the discounts are no less than they were before, but because the ticket prices themselves have gone up, a 50% off ticket will cost a lot more than it did just ten years ago!
#24re: Does anyone remember when TKTS was a great deal?!
Posted: 9/5/09 at 1:11amJoe, I'm not sure if your statement was directed at me or not but I do pay for theater. I pay quite a bit. I was just reflecting today on when I was younger and it was fun to stand in that line with friends and pay not a lot of money to see a great show, that's all. Sadly it wasn't even all that long ago that I paid $35 to sit in the front mezz for TITANIC (which I think was the last time I used them)
