Sunset Boulevard - Alexandra Palace / RAH

I saw Glenn Close from a good seat for...£40.

What a shocker of a price range.

Individual promoters do deals (for shows that just happen to be hosted at the RAH). They aren't always widely available though.

At those prices I will wait, especially as I already saw this at the Palace.

Indeed. Any musical concert I've seen there was terrible for being able to discern the vocals!

It’s obviously being marketed at the elite who wouldn’t dream of sitting on a chair at the ally pally but would like the kudos of going to the RAH for some “fine dining”. Good time of year for the corporates too.

These would be my preferred seats but I cannot justify spending £305 on "fine dining" seats. Will these be reduced to a standard price in the coming weeks? I would like to sit on the floor but due to the absence of a rake, I can only justify spending £105 if I am closer to the front. I'm fairly tall as well and the stage from what I remember isn't that high so it's not a huge struggle for myself.

While I agree with the previous comments on pricing, I have still booked for this.

Added to the prices, I’m not convinced about the sound quality at the RAH, and I’ve already seen this production at Ally Pally, but…

It’s Sunset Boulevard! It’s the RAH! How could I not go?

I absolutely adore Sunset Boulevard and would have been keen to go but Ramin Karimloo leaves me cold.

I think I’d want guarantees that the sound design was for the room and not for some random recording never to be seen again other than on sky arts at 4am on a Tuesday night.

Each to their own in terms of what they choose to do their money. But stuff like this sets a very dangerous precedent.

Anyone who has been to RAH can vouch for how terrible the sound is, especially those who have sat in the £66(!!!!) circle seats before.

I paid £90-odd for a seat to watch Glenn Close (a bona-fide film star reprising a Tony winning performance) at a much, much better venue in every single respect (Coliseum), doing what was billed as a "semi staged" concert but actually felt like a full production. It was a settled production with numerous chances to get things like sound balance and performance levels right.

Compare that to £105 for a cast of talented people, but no star power (and huge salary to match/justify the ticket price), at a terrible venue for sound (and sight lines) in a concert performance which may not even be rehearsed off-book. A performance likely to be recorded with more focus on delivering for that audience than the ones who paid, sorry but £105(!!!!!!!!) for the privilege of being there.

This absolutely reeks of price gouging and greed. Expect to see lots of people in tuxedos (not just for waiters) quaffing expensive yet cheap champagne.

It's not even for charity! It's pure absolute tone deafness.

Sorry for the above rant, genuinely angry about this one. It's everything I don't want theatre to become.

You make some valid points.
I've been to many concerts at the RAH and almost always there are sound issues mainly with the singers rather than the orchestras. I think the worst was Chess 25th Anniversary concert but even the John Wilson Proms concerts there are issues with the sound mix
When you hear the concert back on TV, or in the case of Chess the DVD and CD, they have been able to remix the sound and so the whole thing sounds totally different.
The only exception was Shirley Bassey concert many many years ago and she sounded so clear. But then her voice could fill the hall without even having to use a mic.