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Post by mrbarnaby on Sept 21, 2023 10:18:29 GMT
I got an email saying to book today from 8.30am… at 11am. Great work ATG
I wasn’t interested anyway- and certainly not at the prices they are charging. It’s rather alarming that good seats selling for £150 is now considered the norm. Outrageous.
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Post by theoracle on Sept 21, 2023 10:55:35 GMT
It’s a huge pity really - this sounds fabulous and Matt Smith will be great but there’s no way I’m forking out £150 to sit in the Duke of York’s. Some tickets £180… it’s mad
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Post by Rory on Sept 21, 2023 11:19:59 GMT
The pricing for this is just too depressing for words.
I don't have any particular interest in this show but it signifies that things are just going to get worse and worse in the WE.
It's not good when the Upper Circle is £65, and the back stalls are £95. And keeping most of the stalls off sale to inflate them even higher down the line is just so cynical.
I think I am finally being priced out of going that much now. I just can't really afford to spend £100 for a not particularly good seat.
And please no-one come back and say it's show*business*. It just sucks.
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Post by shakeel on Sept 21, 2023 11:31:39 GMT
Got two seats in the Upper Circle for £30 each -- sat in the same seats for The Pillowman and they're more than fine. Quite looking forward to this.
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Post by minion on Sept 21, 2023 18:19:25 GMT
Just looked through at the sales for this and am surprised by how little it has sold, even the starting range tickets. Enough word might not have gone around, but still, given the very limited run in a small theatre, with a director whose reputation more than enough theatre-going people will know about, and Matt Smith leading. Sometimes I wonder what keeps Matt Smith from feeling like the big star that he should be. He's been wildly admired (and very deservedly) for performances in three massively popular shows, and with a broad range of appeal.
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Post by mistressjojo on Sept 22, 2023 20:43:31 GMT
It’s a huge pity really - this sounds fabulous and Matt Smith will be great but there’s no way I’m forking out £150 to sit in the Duke of York’s. Some tickets £180… it’s mad Just saying the seats at the ends of rows C & D are £65 and good value in my opinion. They are marked as restricted but you miss very little, and very close. I sat there for Vanya and lost sight of Andrew Scott maybe twice in the whole thing for mere seconds only.
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Post by Dave B on Jan 11, 2024 16:28:06 GMT
Looks to be a lot of great Stalls seats.
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Post by Rory on Jan 11, 2024 17:21:07 GMT
As far as I can see the £40 seats have been added to the system for dates up to and including 7th March so far. The tweet did say all performances would have these seats so they will surely add the deal to the remaining dates soon.
I have to say, I'd be very miffed if I'd already paid £175 or whatever, but it is a great deal.
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Post by dip on Jan 11, 2024 17:31:51 GMT
Yeah, had been uhmming and aahhing about this but couldn't resist
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Post by Afriley on Jan 11, 2024 17:34:15 GMT
Yeah, had been uhmming and aahhing about this but couldn't resist Same! £40 front row too good an opportunity. No idea re understudy dates if any, but it’s a very short run. Hoping to finally catch Smith on the stage.
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Post by alessia on Jan 11, 2024 17:50:04 GMT
Managed to get a second row seat, chuffed now - I had given up bc of the prices but this was a really good offer...
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Post by thistimetomorrow on Jan 11, 2024 18:05:25 GMT
How annoying. The performance I had already booked for doesn't seem to have any £40 seats left so I can't even call up ATG and ask them to move me to better seats
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Post by Rory on Jan 11, 2024 18:06:52 GMT
I thought it was ridiculously priced when it went on sale, but I couldn't resist £40 for Row F in the Central Stalls.
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Post by bigredapple on Jan 11, 2024 19:50:37 GMT
Do we think there will be a lottery/rush? The 40 quid tickets are enticing but with fees on top they’re still steep
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Post by zahidf on Jan 11, 2024 20:49:17 GMT
Are front row seats onsale?
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Post by theoracle on Jan 11, 2024 22:03:16 GMT
Hurray - got a pair! Thought some seats might discount later but didn't think to this extent. Wonderful stuff
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Post by Rory on Jan 11, 2024 22:19:15 GMT
It is a bit odd that they've said every performance has £40 seats but that's not the case!
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Post by david on Jan 12, 2024 13:35:23 GMT
£40 tickets now available for the rest of the run. Just got a row F stalls seat myself. Excellent value. I’m just glad I held off on a ticket when the show got announced. Saved myself a lot of money.
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Post by thistimetomorrow on Jan 12, 2024 14:54:06 GMT
We had bought seats at a higher price band in worse locations before these £40 seats popped up. Just tried to exchange our tickets for better seats on the £40 price band (willing to eat the money so not looking to get a refund on the price difference), but they've said that's not something they can do. This kind of thing really puts me off buying in advance! Should have known better and waited for a deal to inevitably pop up
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Post by lichtie on Jan 12, 2024 14:54:12 GMT
Like others, I originally wasn't going to go to this, partly cost, partly just not not in London much when it's on, but at 40 quid hard to resist....
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Post by dip on Jan 12, 2024 15:10:28 GMT
Yeah, it's weird how you either need to buy tickets instantly (before dynamic pricing really kicks in) or wait it out and hope for the best
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Post by alessia on Jan 12, 2024 15:57:22 GMT
I guess it really depends how much you want to see something- because what if they don't do offers and then you're stuck and it's sold out? So for me, the new Jez Butterworth play is the unmissable one and I bought an expensive ticket immediately, but for anything I'm not dying to see, I wait for offers.Sometimes it pays off, sometimes I miss out.
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Post by dollybm on Jan 13, 2024 9:04:21 GMT
Thanks everyone for posting about the £40 seats popping up. I think they may be up for full run now as I managed to book for 25th March.
I knew I wanted to see this but thought I’d been too slow to get the usual seats I go for in this theatre (the low number row C stalls) however they’d clearly been held as £40. I had been going to hold out to closer to the time on pricing generally when I saw what sales looked like but glad to have got booked in now. I think it’s the cheapest I’ve got my usual seats for actually (willing to take the risk that the staging might mean these aren’t as good options as usual)!
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Post by Rory on Jan 13, 2024 9:26:01 GMT
I much prefer the Delfont Mackintosh approach to sales than the ATG approach used on this show and many others (and I know this is not an ATG production). With DMT the full range of tickets is released with a range of prices and you can decide what to do. They don't really change.
ATG in contrast hold many seats off sale, and dynamically price to the extent that prices can change on a daily basis. Prices are often exorbitant. Later they release swathes of tickets, and sometimes a great deal appears late on, like the £40 tickets for this show. However it's not really fair on those who paid over inflated prices when this went on-sale and must surely damage consumer confidence in the long term.
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Post by justfran on Feb 4, 2024 21:50:16 GMT
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Post by Jan on Feb 5, 2024 7:32:10 GMT
Hurray - got a pair! Thought some seats might discount later but didn't think to this extent. Wonderful stuff I suppose in a show that relies on audience participation it is in their interest not to have the expensive stalls seats half empty every night so this was probably part of their decision to discount so heavily.
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Post by lynette on Feb 5, 2024 13:15:48 GMT
Audience participation in an Ibsen play?
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Post by Jan on Feb 5, 2024 14:24:51 GMT
Audience participation in an Ibsen play? Yes, in the public meeting scene. I’m just going by Billington’s review of the original production and comments in this thread. You wouldn’t get much diversity of opinion if it was confined to the people who’d paid £180 for the stalls seats within shouting range of the stage. You won’t get much diversity of opinion anyway of course …
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Post by dip on Feb 6, 2024 11:10:11 GMT
"The director is also retaining the big moment, seen in productions elsewhere, when Stockmann’s opponents ask the audience for a show of hands – is he right or wrong, politically speaking? – before inviting them to pose any questions they have."
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Post by lookingatthestars on Feb 7, 2024 15:09:51 GMT
Saw the first preview last night. A producer announced from the stage that one of the actors had taken ill, so the understudy was going on without having had a rehearsal. But props to him because I had no idea who it was untill the end when he got his own bow. He blended right in.
I know it was the first preview, but overall I don't think the production worked for me. I think this was in large part to do with the music, but also the setting. I have seen a modern version before, but something about this didn't ring true for me. I just couldn't get into it fully. I did see huge potential with all the mordrn day references. I don't know of it's the right word but it felt gimmicky as if a lot of the text/story was rushed over to get to the big moment of the town hall, and to be fair it was worth going for that alone, Matt Smith was particularly great here, especially as it was the first show. But over all I just could not get invested, I didn't care enough.
I did enjoy it, as it is a good play and the acting is really good. I particularly like the dynamic between Dr stockman and his brother (Paul Hilton I believe). I just felt the production did the text a disservice in that it could have been a fantastic commentary on where we are at as a society, but apart from Matt's speech, I felt I didn't get that.
I may eat my words when the production settles into the run and I hope I do. The music was a big no no from me, but I did see people bopping their heads, so it might be just me.
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