Terry Teachout had an interesting article in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal:
The Price of the TicketIt costs a lot to see a Broadway show. Is it worth the expense?November 24, 2007
Time for a pop quiz inspired by the stagehands’ strike that shut down most of Broadway. Who said this – and when did he say it?
“It is not for nothing that New York is the place where the critics are the most powerful and the toughest in the world. It … Read More >
Alright, I’m afraid that this blog entry won’t make me many friends in the union world, but…
Back when I was a young and naive aspiring theater professional, I was an intern with the General Management office at the Public Theater in New York. They were the original producers of A CHORUS LINE, and produced it on Broadway for fourteen years after its sucess downtown. One of my duties was to take a weekly report up to the company … Read More >
You might have heard that StubHub, the nationwide scalper’s outlet, has opened a storefront just blocks from the ballyhoo of Broadway, enabling ever larger numbers of wealthy suburbanites to purchase ever-more-expensive center-orchestra tickets to musicals with tired television stars. (See the New York Times story here.)
Given that a night on Broadway for a family four can already easily cost a thousand bucks, this latest … Read More >
