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Post by talkingheads on Oct 27, 2018 11:44:11 GMT
I'm still not sure about this but always wanted to see SRB onstage. No way I;m paying those prices though, either TodayTix or a visit to a half price booth will be in order.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Oct 27, 2018 11:49:39 GMT
talkingheads If you want to see SRB, get thee to the Almeida Maybe Shakespeare is not for you, but you will be able to see his acting skills up close and for half the price of the West End Lehman.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2018 12:00:32 GMT
I duly looked for tickets yesterday and was greeted with a fairly hostile seat map in terms of pricing. The front row appeared to not be on sale so I’m presuming day seats will be available. In a just world, fairly hostile seat maps would be banished and legroom always would be plentiful. Alas ... |
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Post by talkingheads on Oct 27, 2018 13:16:35 GMT
talkingheads If you want to see SRB, get thee to the Almeida Maybe Shakespeare is not for you, but you will be able to see his acting skills up close and for half the price of the West End Lehman. I had absolutely no idea this was happening, never seen an 'official' Shakespeare production, saw an am dram Midsummer five years ago, but shall look into this, thank you! |
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Post by stefy69 on Nov 4, 2018 15:05:45 GMT
Really ambitious pricing for the Piccadilly run. Stalls £69.50, £59.50, £49.50, £35 Dress £69.50, £59.50, £49.50 Upper £49.50, £35, £18 BUT: Many, many stalls D to L and dress B to G seats are packaged, running £144.50, £114.50, £94.50 and premium £99.50 (with £194.50 on Friday and Saturday).  |
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Post by maggiem on Nov 5, 2018 10:01:06 GMT
Really ambitious pricing for the Piccadilly run. Stalls £69.50, £59.50, £49.50, £35 Dress £69.50, £59.50, £49.50 Upper £49.50, £35, £18 BUT: Many, many stalls D to L and dress B to G seats are packaged, running £144.50, £114.50, £94.50 and premium £99.50 (with £194.50 on Friday and Saturday). "Ambitious" is a very polite way of putting it, Monkey! I've booked an £18.00 seat for July, to keep the cost down as much as possible. Not happy about the back row of "The Gods", when I know at other theatres I could get side of the front rows in the upper circles for simlar prices  ! |
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Post by RedRose on Nov 5, 2018 10:11:11 GMT
So glad I've already seen it from front row at the NT. I would like to see it again but I am not paying those prices. I am sure there will be a lot of offers.
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Post by theatrefan77 on Nov 5, 2018 10:28:17 GMT
Same here. Saw it twice at the Nash for much less.
Wouldn't mind seeing it again but not a those prices.
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Post by youngoffender on Nov 5, 2018 12:52:57 GMT
I nearly lost the will to live while sitting through this once. Would happily pay premium price to get those 3 and a half hours of my life back.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2018 13:33:44 GMT
Such a shame to have a successful play go out with a whimper in a half-empty theatre because of stupid pricing. I was tempted to see it again but will definitely wait for discounts.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2018 16:31:01 GMT
Genuine question as I don't really study ticket price bands but aren't those just normal prices for London's glitzy West End nowadays? Are they really higher than normal?
And there are tickets for £18 so it's not like there aren't cheap tickets on offer.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2018 16:41:43 GMT
Genuine question as I don't really study ticket price bands but aren't those just normal prices for London's glitzy West End nowadays? Are they really higher than normal? And there are tickets for £18 so it's not like there aren't cheap tickets on offer. Dunno, I never go, it's too expensive  Those £18 tickets will be so bad that you might as well stand on the other side of the road and try to see what's going on, I suspect. It seems ambitious pricing for something that isn't Hamilton. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2018 17:39:28 GMT
They've been game about letting the back row of the stalls go for £18, but otherwise @abby is right. The back upper circle is at least a fairly clear view, but compared to what £18 got you at the Lyttelton, it's not really a compensation. Well I guess sometimes you get what you pay for. After all, theatres ain't charities.  |
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Post by harrietcraig on Feb 19, 2019 21:06:00 GMT
Those prices are a bargain compared to what the Park Avenue Armory in New York is charging for the Lehman Trilogy. I bought my ticket back in September, and I paid $125 (a little less than £100) for a seat in the middle of Row K. That's considered "Zone A", which is the second-priciest range (the ranges are Premium, Zone A, Zone B, and Zone C).
Today I received a blast email from the Park Avenue Armory, saying that seats for the whole engagement are "extremely limited", and encouraging people who haven't bought tickets yet to do so right away. Out of curiosity, I looked at what's available for the date of my performance, and I was amazed to see that Zone A tickets now cost $225 (and the only available seats in Zone A are way off to the side, e.g., seat numbers in the 40's in rows that go consecutively from 1 to 46). "Premium" seats are going (or not) for $300. Talk about dynamic pricing.
Apologies if this belongs on the International board, but I didn't see a thread about the Lehman Trilogy on that board, and this seemed somewhat related to concerns about ticket pricing that people have raised on this thread.
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Post by Rory on Mar 28, 2019 11:30:02 GMT
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Post by rumbledoll on Mar 28, 2019 12:02:06 GMT
Fantastic news! Saw it live from the front row at the Nash past summer - such a treat - and will be happy to go again dragging all my friends along!  |
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Post by londonpostie on Mar 28, 2019 12:22:59 GMT
Can't see anything in Rory's post at all, is there confirmation of its return?
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Post by n1david on Mar 28, 2019 12:40:12 GMT
Can't see anything in Rory's post at all, is there confirmation of its return? It's announcing an NT Live on 25 July, it's transferring to the Piccadilly Theatre 11 May - 3 August. |
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Post by Rory on Mar 28, 2019 12:45:00 GMT
Can't see anything in Rory's post at all, is there confirmation of its return? It's a link to a tweet confirming an NT Live screening of the West End transfer on 25th July. |
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Post by sfsusan on May 28, 2019 8:57:08 GMT
I saw this last night at the Piccadilly and thought it was amazing... the combination of story, staging and above all, acting made this thrilling. I do think it's overlong (3+ hours) and started dragging in the middle. I think they could actually skip from the end of the first generation to the events triggering the end of the company.
But the acting!!! Each of the three actors plays multiple characters, flickering from one to another with an upturned collar here or a change of posture there. Simply wonderful to watch.
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Post by Jon on May 28, 2019 15:58:34 GMT
Now extended to 31st August, which is good. Ben Miles isn't doing the final three weeks, I assume he had a work commitment that clashed, Dominik Tiefenthaler is taking over |
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Post by NeilVHughes on Jun 7, 2019 16:03:58 GMT
Entertaining Q&A this afternoon.
Set looks good in its new home, tempted to catch it again if I can get a reasonably priced ticket before the cast change.
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Post by londonpostie on Jun 7, 2019 21:21:21 GMT
I was there as well. Did you catch the group berating staff in the foyer becasue they'd turned up expecting to see the play (for £7) .. honestly! Sam Mendes got praise heaped high by all concerned.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2019 21:44:20 GMT
Congrats to Simon Russell Beale on the knighthood. What took them so long?!
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Post by NeilVHughes on Jun 7, 2019 22:28:14 GMT
londonpostie , yes, walked past them, the usher was being professional explaining that the tickets referenced AG, BM, SRB on the ...., how they could think it was for a performance was unbelievable, also found it strange that even though the tickets had allocated seats when we got in the ushers said it was unallocated, maybe the NT and ATG sold the same seats and was surprised there was not more of a kerfuffle when you found someone in ‘your’ seat. Fortunately when I got home tonight (went on to the Barbican for Knight of the Burning Pestle) there were a couple of Friday Rush tickets left for next Saturday’s matinee so seeing at again sooner than expected.
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