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#1Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 12:56pm
I have just read on Playbill.com about a new aisle seat pricing that is being adopted by 3 shows on broadway. Charging upwards of $25 to sit on the aisle.
Ouch - way to discriminate against the claustorphobic of the nation. My mother has to sit on the aisle seat or she panics. Now she has to pay more.
Isn't it actually illegal to discriminate against a potential disability?
Disappointing...
RY
#2re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 12:58pm
Let me guess -- the American Airlines Theatre came up with it, right? 
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#2re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 12:58pm
I'll bet it was Disney's idea!
another way to rob some extra money from you.
myManCape
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/26/05
#3re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 1:04pmWas it illegal for airlines to charge fat people double? No.
"Have they come yet?"
#4re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 1:07pm
I assume it would be illegal to "discriminate" people with a disorder.
I think it's quite ridiculous, but people will do it. So kudos to those assholes who started it.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#5re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 1:12pm
Personally I think this is absurd. I don't even see the true benefit of an aisle seat in terms of my view of the performance - it isn't even dead center. So they're gonna start charging extra so someone has the benefit of leaving their seat whenever they want? How stupid.
On top of it, you can only buy them in pairs, which leaves less orchestra seats available for normal price.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
Updated On: 8/1/08 at 01:12 PM
#6re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 1:15pmI think a lot of people sit on the aisle because they don't mind if people crawl over them, they just don't like to crawl over other people. I don't know, just a thought.
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
#7re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 1:18pmI am 6'3", and in some theaters, sitting on the aisle gives me considerably more legroom than a middle seat. Can we assume that the higher prices will carry over to TKTS if seats go unsold? I think 'premium' seats sell at 1/2 regular orchestra if they wind up at TKTS.
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#8re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 1:25pmYou can only buy them in pairs? That's just bad. And aren't most press seats on the aisle? Whatever happend to selling from the middle outwards so you didn't wind up with patches of single tickets?
#9re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 1:26pm
Maybe they can also offer seats that allow the arm to lift up so the bigguns can finally pay for 2 seats to see a show, too? No more heavy breathing on me during penultimate monents.
Just a thought
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#10re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 1:27pmBut these aisle seats are sold in pairs, so even if one seat has more legroom, the other one is just like the others in the row. But I guess they have to do that since it is common for people to buy in twos instead of a single seat. Still stupid. I hope this doesn't last long.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#11re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 1:33pmThis looks like a Jujamcyn thing. A Catered Affair was also selling aisle seats like this, as is A Tale of Two Cities.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#12re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 1:41pmIMO, the timing of this coldn't be worse. The financial status of this country is shaky, at best. Except for the wealthy, who's going to fork over $135.00 (actually $270) to see a show? To me, the biggest gyp of all is that one of them isn't even a aisle seat. I say boo-hiss and hope it hits all the shows that pursue this where it hurts -- in their already overstuffed wallets.
BroadwayEd
#13re: Broadway aisle seat pricing
Posted: 8/1/08 at 1:42pmAs a "aisle seater due to anxiety" I'm all for this. I'll be able to see more theatre because aisle seats will be available in their own class.
