Ticket Pricing...
Sun, 30 Apr 2000, 03:02 pmWalter Plinge11 posts in thread
Ticket Pricing...
Sun, 30 Apr 2000, 03:02 pmI know that you'll all have a 1000 answer's to this one but still.....
I'd like to complain about the price of musical tickets these days, $16/17 for an adult!! I know that the prices of rights etc etc have gone up but really this is getting a bit much. Trying to convince my non theatre friends to pay this is like trying to pull teeth. As one told me last week for this price I could, see a movie, get into a club and have a drink, buy a good bottle of wine or several 100 other things all of which she thought might be more fun than an amature musical. Another friend who would get the student rate said he really couldn't afford $15 for one show, for this he could see 2 movies at Luna Cinemas. My own father thinks he is being ripped off!
I think perhaps the fact that Assassins sold out plus more on 1/2 price night might say somthing.
Some-one has to complain.....
I'd like to complain about the price of musical tickets these days, $16/17 for an adult!! I know that the prices of rights etc etc have gone up but really this is getting a bit much. Trying to convince my non theatre friends to pay this is like trying to pull teeth. As one told me last week for this price I could, see a movie, get into a club and have a drink, buy a good bottle of wine or several 100 other things all of which she thought might be more fun than an amature musical. Another friend who would get the student rate said he really couldn't afford $15 for one show, for this he could see 2 movies at Luna Cinemas. My own father thinks he is being ripped off!
I think perhaps the fact that Assassins sold out plus more on 1/2 price night might say somthing.
Some-one has to complain.....
RE: Ticket Pricing...
Sun, 30 Apr 2000, 03:33 pmHi Phil,
I think you'll find that tickets HAVE to be that price for sheer survival of the club.
For your interest, a selection of prices from around Australia..this month and coming soon.
OKLAHOMA (Berowra Musical Society NSW) $16 Adult
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Regals M S, NSW ) $18 Adult.
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Loyola M S, Vic) $20 Adult
THE WORLD GOES ROUND (Monash Uni Mus. Co., Vic) $18 Adult
LA BOHEME (Eastern Metropolitan Opera Inc., Vic ) $35 Adult
THE KING AND I (Williamstown Light Opera Co., Vic) $20 adult
THE MIKADO (G&S, Vic) $22 Adult
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD (Savoy Opera Co, Vic) $24 Adult
CRAZY FOR YOU (Carey MTC, Vic) $16 Adult
These are all amateur productions. Most companies are not advertising their prices, so my guess is that these are the cheaper side of average. On my last trip East last year, musicals were well and truly charging $40 and beyond. (YES AMATEUR).
SO unless you want lots of productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, Shakespeare and other non royalty plays, performed in sack cloth (or naked) on a bare stage, you are going to have to pay.
AND expect a rise after July 1, because most companies do not have money in the coffers to pay the extra 10% royalties and the extra 10% hall hire etc etc etc.
I think you'll find that tickets HAVE to be that price for sheer survival of the club.
For your interest, a selection of prices from around Australia..this month and coming soon.
OKLAHOMA (Berowra Musical Society NSW) $16 Adult
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Regals M S, NSW ) $18 Adult.
DIE FLEDERMAUS (Loyola M S, Vic) $20 Adult
THE WORLD GOES ROUND (Monash Uni Mus. Co., Vic) $18 Adult
LA BOHEME (Eastern Metropolitan Opera Inc., Vic ) $35 Adult
THE KING AND I (Williamstown Light Opera Co., Vic) $20 adult
THE MIKADO (G&S, Vic) $22 Adult
ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD (Savoy Opera Co, Vic) $24 Adult
CRAZY FOR YOU (Carey MTC, Vic) $16 Adult
These are all amateur productions. Most companies are not advertising their prices, so my guess is that these are the cheaper side of average. On my last trip East last year, musicals were well and truly charging $40 and beyond. (YES AMATEUR).
SO unless you want lots of productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, Shakespeare and other non royalty plays, performed in sack cloth (or naked) on a bare stage, you are going to have to pay.
AND expect a rise after July 1, because most companies do not have money in the coffers to pay the extra 10% royalties and the extra 10% hall hire etc etc etc.
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