If tickets to Broadway shows weren’t so goddamn expensive, maybe I’d spontaneously see the revival of “Gypsy” that got such a rave review in the Times this morning. I really want to. But $101.25 for an orchestra ticket, and $66.25 for a nosebleed balcony seat? Plus an additional 10 bucks if I order it online? I just can’t afford that right now. This is why I rarely see Broadway shows anymore, as much as I’d love to.
A show gets a terrific review — “Gypsy” or “Hairspray” or whatever — and I figure I’d better buy a ticket that very morning, or else it will be sold out for months. But I can’t afford it, so I wait, and then I figure, well, I’ve waited so long, I probably won’t be able to get a ticket now. So I wind up never seeing the show.
So instead I go to the movies, and I miss out on great theater.