The Sunday Giveaway: Four Tickets to Greed Off Broadway!
This week’s Sunday Giveaway is Super-Super-Supersized! (Read that back again out loud in your favorite Monster Truck Announcer Voice and you’ll get what I was going for.)
We’ve got four tickets to Greed, the new Off Broadway musical now playing at New World Stages.
What’s Greed about?
It’s about lust.
No, no. It’s about greed, duh.
From the marketing blurb:
“What do Jamie Dimon, Lance Armstrong, Pope Francis and Bernie Madoff have in common? They all appear in Greed: A Musical for Our Times. The musical comedy’s targets range from Ponzi schemes to the not-so-subtle sales pitches of retirement planners and mortgage bundlers. With numbers like “A Little Juice,” “Inside Information,” “I’ll Cheat On My Taxes” and “The Ballad of Jamie Dimon,” Greed takes aim at the obvious, and not so obvious, targets.”Funny, right? And I wonder how many people from our own beloved industry could appear in this show? I could give you a few dozen names myself. 🙂 But I won’t. It’s Sunday, after all.
You can learn more about it here.
And you can win four tickets right here! And here’s how:
Speaking of greed. Let’s talk about our favorite “greedy” subject: Broadway ticket prices.
Full price tickets for Broadway shows are now in the $130-$140 range.
It’s 2014. Tell me what you think the full price ticket will be (including facility fees) in 2025. Ten years from now. Comment your answer below and you could win! Good luck! And let greed be with you!
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202.50
I think it will probably be around 260, but hopefully not any higher!!
One bitcoin (’nuff said)
$185 probably
They will be ~$190.00, but there will be more opportunities to reach a wider audience. The US will get its act together, understanding the value of the arts and being proactive in making the arts available to a wider audience. Perhaps it will subsidize one Broadway show/week so people/students/children who would never have the opportunity to attend a performance, could. At these performances, maybe the understudies-a totally different cast-could perform. And yes, I’ve been accused of being Pollyanna more than once.
Hi, Ken,
I think that the price in 10 years will be $275.50.
Joe Laub
Mere inflation at 2.5%/year would raise the $130 price to $165. The real question is whether prices will outstrip inflation? I think they will because there will be massive investment into major shows in the same way the film industry invests in blockbusters. So I think $180-$200 will be the average in 10 years’ time.
APPROXIMATELY $200, BUT FOR YOU, $199.
by 2025, there won’t be any seats under $150, but all the average seats for the good shows will be hovering $200.
$200, but I sure hope not!
If we maintain the current level of inflation, then I’d say $170. But I hope the American dollar gets its act together before then!
I’m guessing $200-$210. The industry loves milestones and $200 is one. Which show will be the first? I’m pretty sure it will be a musical.
Most important question is what will TDF charge for the discounted ticket?
$250.
Well, if my musical finally gets off the ground by then, I’d be happy to see those prices. I’m saying $250.00.
According to this NYTimes piece…
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/13/business/13scene.html?_r=0
…the cost of Broadway tickets rose 31 percent from 1998 to 2005, when the article was published. So it’s possible we’re looking at ticket prices anywhere from $180 to $200 in ten years. (Which probably means rush tickets will then cost about $50.)
With the average percentage increase over the years, I’d say we’re looking at $202.00
Formula for ticket price in 2025:
Age of director multiplied by the # of producers divided by # of people in the cast the director is dating (be it male or female)plus 1/2 of the combined ages of the leading lady and leading man, plus the # of the cross street between Broadway and 8th Ave. =
about $250____________
$225, and the highest premium seats will go for $450. Just going by my gut.
You will pay for tickets in blood plus a $2.50 site restoration fee.
150.00 to 175.00
I’ll think the average price will be $150
$175. If it goes any higher I think people will just stop buying, even adjusting for inflation.
$270 or a cornea.
$450
$200-220, but I also feel TDF and TKTS will be serving up deals on many other yet-to-be-discovered forums, and will give rise to other like-minded organizations doing the same. So with this in mind, we’ll still have lower-priced options.
I’ll thinking prices will be $210-$230 range thanks to large productions and union contracts.
$1,000.00. A steal considering shows will be presented on floating theaters once the oceans rise.
With the average price raises I’m thinking it’ll be around $210 which will still be a lot of $ then. / danabeeman*at*gmail*dot*com
The Anglo American Diamond. (Anglo American is a company based in London that, among other things, owns 85% of De Beers the largest diamond mining company in the world).
$200 will be the hovering point, with marketing people trying to convince us that shows resting just below are a bargain and shows that are better/worth more break the barrier…because isn’t your theater experience worth it?
I’m thinking around $250!
Master who is raving about bag and as to why you ought to worry.