September 15, 2006
Really cheap Broadway tickets not worth your time?
 The New York Times surveys a few of the ways you can get legitimate, discounted tickets to Broadway shows. Of course they cover the TKTS booth, noting the competition is generally less fierce in bad weather. The real score was for a good pair of "Avenue Q" orchestra seats for $21.25 each, as opposed to the regular $101.25. But those rush seats were secured after several days of showing up twice (once to enter, once for the drawing) to compete for the 12 cheap tickets available for each show.
But if time is money, the pursuit of a cheap Broadway ticket may not be a bargain, based on the Times' reporter's experience:
"For me a week of cheap-ticket hunting demanded such patience, and offered such repeated disappointment, that I began to feel as if I were in some kind of cheapskate “Waiting for Godot.” Playbill keeps a list of rush policies at several Broadway theaters, but it is updated sporadically and currently includes more than a dozen shows that closed long ago.)
Earlier: TKTS snapshot: 'History Boys,' 'Drowsy,' 'Purple'
Broadway sales hit all-time-high for '05-'06 season
'History Boys' standing room tickets for $22.25
Broadway premium buyers subsidizing cheap seats
Times Square TKTS booth moving to Marriott Marquis
Broadway rising: $110 for regular orchestra seats
September 15, 2006 08:45 AM in Broadway, Cheap Stuff
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