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Post by marob on May 9, 2022 21:57:26 GMT
I quite like this reaction, which appeared randomly on my Twitter feed:
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Post by matty on May 9, 2022 22:04:12 GMT
To add insult to injury, if you were to pay the £460 for a final night seat on TodayTix, you'd be lumbered with £60 in fees...why does it cost so much extra in fees for a more expensive ticket, they're still sending the same e-ticket and reminder email?!
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Post by inthenose on May 10, 2022 6:11:59 GMT
To add insult to injury, if you were to pay the £460 for a final night seat on TodayTix, you'd be lumbered with £60 in fees...why does it cost so much extra in fees for a more expensive ticket, they're still sending the same e-ticket and reminder email?! Wait, what? £60 in fees?
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Post by matty on May 10, 2022 6:34:58 GMT
To add insult to injury, if you were to pay the £460 for a final night seat on TodayTix, you'd be lumbered with £60 in fees...why does it cost so much extra in fees for a more expensive ticket, they're still sending the same e-ticket and reminder email?! Wait, what? £60 in fees? Yup! My original total, was slightly wrong - it is a £400 ticket, plus the £60 in fees. TodayTix (not £460 ticket plus fees). Utterly ridiculous!
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Post by theatreliker on May 10, 2022 9:55:39 GMT
Has there been anything from Elliott Harper productions on the price of tickets? Surely they're aware this is damaging their reputation?
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Post by shady23 on May 10, 2022 10:26:11 GMT
They probably think all publicity is good publicity
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Post by Phantom of London on May 10, 2022 10:42:21 GMT
To get to this point where tickets are highly sought, was because people stumped up the money to see someone who is no longer in the cast.
If the current cast was the original cast, I doubt tickets would be anywhere near this price and more than likely would be an easy ticket. Especially as the reviews weren’t that good.
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Post by 42ndBlvd on May 10, 2022 12:25:31 GMT
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Post by thistimetomorrow on May 10, 2022 13:09:39 GMT
you'd be lumbered with £60 in fees when the fees are that high, i feel like that might be a system glitch by that point?
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Post by talkingheads on May 10, 2022 13:17:33 GMT
you'd be lumbered with £60 in fees when the fees are that high, i feel like that might be a system glitch by that point? I don't even buy tickets if a venue tries to charge me to pick them up from their own box office. £60 is obscene.
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Post by Rory on May 10, 2022 13:49:01 GMT
This is unacceptable. Marianne, Chris and Nick should be ashamed.
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Post by Mark on May 10, 2022 13:54:19 GMT
If people pay it then more fool them.
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Post by inthenose on May 10, 2022 15:26:10 GMT
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Post by inthenose on May 10, 2022 15:27:40 GMT
you'd be lumbered with £60 in fees when the fees are that high, i feel like that might be a system glitch by that point? Probably. Maybe they could use the money from their criminally extortionate fees to fix their ticket syst... Oh
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Post by n1david on May 10, 2022 15:41:18 GMT
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Post by Jon on May 10, 2022 16:10:30 GMT
This is unacceptable. Marianne, Chris and Nick should be ashamed. You do know it's commercial theatre and not a charity. They're not in the business of giving out freebies.
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Post by kathryn on May 10, 2022 16:14:48 GMT
Surely at those prices the seats will just stay empty?
I know in some cases there’s only 6 seats left, but are there really 6 people willing to pay £400 each? That’s Russian oligarch money. How many Bridgerton fans are that rich?!
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Post by Jon on May 10, 2022 16:16:46 GMT
Surely at those prices the seats will just stay empty? I know in some cases there’s only 6 seats left, but are there really 6 people willing to pay £400 each? That’s Russian oligarch money. How many Bridgerton fans are that rich?! I would imagine the prices will drop closer to the time if they've not sold, that's usually how dynamic pricing works.
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Post by A.Ham on May 10, 2022 16:31:30 GMT
Surely at those prices the seats will just stay empty? I know in some cases there’s only 6 seats left, but are there really 6 people willing to pay £400 each? That’s Russian oligarch money. How many Bridgerton fans are that rich?! I would imagine the prices will drop closer to the time if they've not sold, that's usually how dynamic pricing works. Yes, let’s hope none sell at the crazy £400, £350, £300 prices we’ve seen and nothing shifts until at least they’re back to what we already all felt was a high price initially - even £125/£150 is too high really but I do get that people will pay that and there’s reasons for those costs. Above that though and they’re really taking the proverbial…
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Post by justafan on May 10, 2022 16:48:44 GMT
So the ‘spokesman’ is blaming the fact that because they’ve done a lottery and £20 tickets that suddenly they have to ramp up the last weeks of shows to £400 - sounds like a cr*p business model - and I know nothing about theatre business
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Post by Rory on May 10, 2022 17:06:19 GMT
This is unacceptable. Marianne, Chris and Nick should be ashamed. You do know it's commercial theatre and not a charity. They're not in the business of giving out freebies. Yep, I know that thanks and you never fail to make the point. Not much charity or goodwill with those prices. And £400 is not a freebie, it's a total pisstake. And it damages theatre, and their greed infuriates me.
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Post by samuelwhiskers on May 10, 2022 18:03:09 GMT
Isn’t the daily lottery literally like 4 tickets or something? There were raised eyebrows but not this outrage when all tickets (except the tiny handful of lottery or super advanced tickets) were £100 or £125. It’s a small cast play that’s relatively inexpensive to produce. They’d still make money hand over fist pricing tickets at £125, and that’s still crazy expensive. Why inflate tickets to such an obscene degree during a time when British theatre is struggling so much financially, so many theatres have had to cancel commissions and productions or cancel or reduce their studio shows, and the UK as a whole is in a financial crisis. It’s just so out of touch and like they just don’t care about their image or anything except greed.
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Post by LaLuPone on May 10, 2022 21:55:29 GMT
Absolutely crazy prices. I did have a look on ATG earlier out of curiosity though and they had some good seats at the front of the circle for tonight for only £40, so clearly they are dynamic pricing the other way on the day sometimes.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 10, 2022 22:37:41 GMT
Short run. World class creative team. Big name actors. Small theatre. Commercial production. Surely they are within their rights to charge whatever they want for the tickets. Basic supply and demand. 7 out of every 10 shows dont recoup. Why not make some money if you can. Sometimes it’s exasperating reading this forum. Especially as a professional. Please-we all really appreciate the passion and indeed the great knowledge of the members and your insights but please remember theatre producing is unbelievably risky. It can take 12 months of work to pull off rights/creative team/casting/investment/venue etc and of course most producers are looking to try and get 4 or 5 shows ‘off the ground’ whilst being thrilled if one out of every 5 actually comes together. This is a really good play. World class creative team. Top notch cast. Maybe let the investors and producers actually make money for a change. Sorry to quote this again but you’ll understand why.
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Post by fiyero on May 11, 2022 8:09:23 GMT
Short run. World class creative team. Big name actors. Small theatre. Commercial production. Surely they are within their rights to charge whatever they want for the tickets. Basic supply and demand. 7 out of every 10 shows dont recoup. Why not make some money if you can. Sometimes it’s exasperating reading this forum. Especially as a professional. Please-we all really appreciate the passion and indeed the great knowledge of the members and your insights but please remember theatre producing is unbelievably risky. It can take 12 months of work to pull off rights/creative team/casting/investment/venue etc and of course most producers are looking to try and get 4 or 5 shows ‘off the ground’ whilst being thrilled if one out of every 5 actually comes together. This is a really good play. World class creative team. Top notch cast. Maybe let the investors and producers actually make money for a change. Sorry to quote this again but you’ll understand why. And there were cheaper tickets too! My friend paid £20 for a ticket. He couldn't make it in the end and kindly gave me the ticket but they did exist!
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Post by fluxcapacitor on May 11, 2022 8:18:50 GMT
It’s a small cast play that’s relatively inexpensive to produce. They’d still make money hand over fist pricing tickets at £125, and that’s still crazy expensive. Why inflate tickets to such an obscene degree during a time when British theatre is struggling so much financially, so many theatres have had to cancel commissions and productions or cancel or reduce their studio shows, and the UK as a whole is in a financial crisis. It’s just so out of touch and like they just don’t care about their image or anything except greed. They've also lost their biggest - and most expensive - actor during the run, which makes it even more obscene since tickets to see Taron Egerton were much cheaper. Hell, most "top tier" tickets (not including the ones with optional extra £1000 donation) for the Stephen Sondheim concert - which featured a full orchestra, and tens of big names - were "only" £250!! I know that was one night, but still... As others have said though, there are quite a lot of tickets left for many performances so I can see prices dropping nearer the time. Strangely, there seem to be cheaper options (by cheaper, I mean the £150 mark) on TodayTix. Quite rare for TT to have genuine cheaper tickets for shows these days - I usually find the official website comes out on top when looking for the cheapest option.
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Post by couldileaveyou on May 11, 2022 11:12:19 GMT
I think that more than the backlash it's the realisation that Jonathan Bailey alone is not enough to make people pay that price, but hey
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Post by mkb on May 11, 2022 11:23:43 GMT
Short run. World class creative team. Big name actors. Small theatre. Commercial production. Surely they are within their rights to charge whatever they want for the tickets. Basic supply and demand. 7 out of every 10 shows dont recoup. Why not make some money if you can. Sometimes it’s exasperating reading this forum. Especially as a professional. Please-we all really appreciate the passion and indeed the great knowledge of the members and your insights but please remember theatre producing is unbelievably risky. It can take 12 months of work to pull off rights/creative team/casting/investment/venue etc and of course most producers are looking to try and get 4 or 5 shows ‘off the ground’ whilst being thrilled if one out of every 5 actually comes together. This is a really good play. World class creative team. Top notch cast. Maybe let the investors and producers actually make money for a change. Sorry to quote this again but you’ll understand why. The author asks "why not make some money if you can?" arguing that producers can charge whatever the market will pay, to which my answer is because I believe in balancing personal greed with respect and fairness for others. If you are comfortable with unconstrained capitalism, you will not be bothered. Personally, I think such free-market politics are hugely damaging to the fabric of society and exclusionary.
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Post by harry on May 11, 2022 11:27:33 GMT
I mean it’s gross, obviously. It makes all the anti scalping measures a joke, when producers decide to inflate prices like this of their own accord.
But is it wrong of me to feel extra incensed that it’s happening on a show that’s so disappointingly mediocre?
Anyway a sorry state of affairs and really sad and bad for the West End and theatre’s reputation in general.
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