So did Brooks live up to his box office price?
The average markup per ticket is two or three times the box-office price.
Tickets for the premiere, at twice the normal Met prices, disappeared swiftly and were scalped for as much as 30 times their box office price.
Incidental Intelligence: The Thalia Theatre, on upper Broadway, displays a rather bewildering warning at the top of its box-office price list, to wit, "Weekdays and Sundays, Only".
Just five years ago, you could see "Waiting for Godot," starring John Turturro, at Classic Stage Company, and "Wit," at MCC Theater, for a box-office price of $35 or less.
The New Yorker, August 9 , 1930P. 7 Recently a letter was received at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial headquarters from Joe LeBlang's ticket office addressed to Thomas Jefferson and telling him how to save 50% of the Box Office price of theatre tickets.
By Harrison Kinney and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, June 11 , 1949P. 17 Incidental Intelligence: The Thalia Theatre, on upper Broadway, displays a rather bewildering warning at the top of its box-office price list, to wit, "Weekdays and Sundays, Only".
At the time of writing, the cheapest ticket you can get to see the show next week on the resale site Viagogo is £250: double the top box-office price of £125.
Rob Hallett, president of international touring at AEG, the company which staged the British Summer Time concerts in Hyde Park, said the flourishing secondary ticket market, where fans can re-sell spare tickets at a huge profit, indicated the box office price charged by promoters was too low.
By Robert M. Coates The New Yorker, August 9 , 1930P. 7 Recently a letter was received at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial headquarters from Joe LeBlang's ticket office addressed to Thomas Jefferson and telling him how to save 50% of the Box Office price of theatre tickets.
