How Much? For Who?
I recently bought tickets for the upcoming debut of The Little Mermaid on Broadway. We got 1st balcony tickets and they ran about $90 a piece. Expensive? Yes, but I didn’t expect to find discount tickets for a show that has yet to appear, and since that is what tickets generally run, I was not at all shocked. Not happy… but not shocked.
Then came the request for tickets for Hannah Montana. It would be an early Christmas present for LatteGirl. OK, I thought. No big deal. But imagine my surprise when I discovered that tickets for this concert would cost MORE than a Broadway show! It took about 1/2 hour once the tickets went on sale before I was able to secure tickets. Upper Level at the new Prudential Center that will be opening (theoretically) this week. Read that again… UPPER LEVEL! Cost? $120 a piece. For Hannah Montana! Now, I understand I am old now… but I don’t think if I add up the cost of every concert I have ever attended, that it would cost more than the $240 I had to lay out for this one event.
I was even more shocked when I heard that the concert sold out in a hour, and that tickets were now being given away on local radio stations, just like “real” concert tickets. I guess at these prices that this is a real concert, but somehow it just doesn’t seem the same thing to me. I saw this much more like a “Kiddie Concert” but I guess I was wrong.
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I didn’t realize the Hannah Montana tix were that expensive. We thought about getting some, but didn’t. We probably wouldn’t have been able to anyway…they sold out here in about an hour too.
Are you serious?? Even TSO was only $50 a person (and we still couldn’t afford it, but I wouldn’t go without the kids anyway).
Who the hell am I kidding? Even if I had the money, that’s just outrageous (and nuts!) Stay home, watch it on TV or buy a DVD – a gift that she can watch over and over again.
I never understood why people went to football games (soooo expensive) when they could watch it in the comfort of their own home and see more of the action (and go to the bathroom when they wanted to – and have their snacks, etc., etc.) Baseball games are cheap enough (we go once a year, on Polish night), but yikes – the price of food and souvenirs, etc. We just stay home and have a carpet picnic and watch the games. (Same goes for hockey. Go Sabres!)