WINNING IN THEATRE LAND
We live in a very culture rich City. London holds many world class performances and plenty of provincial theatres, showing both classic and obscure productions in glorious old theatres and smaller, more intimate spaces.
Lots of Londoners never visit the theatres and it's become an expensive extravagance to catch the west end shows - as they aim to lure the tourists in at the premium tickets prices. Understanding how the tickets work, where the best value seats are and how to dig for the right information, helped get us two decent premium seats at the last showing of Miss Saigon tonight for just £20 each instead of having to pay £75-£150. I love the theatre and we often go to smaller theatres and pay £8-£15. It means we go a lot more to the smaller shows than the larger ones. But, now I've learned to dig a little deeper to get better valued quality seats even at the major shows.
I call the theatre box office number direct (finding it using SayNoto0870), rather than using the other so-called cheap theatre ticket offices in and around town (over double the price today and not very good seats either). The key to getting the premium seats is to ask the question 'are you sure there's no other cheaper tickets?' It's surprising how the theatres will try to hide the special deals as they really want to maximise on the ticket sales at the tourist prices. When you get told the time for last minute tickets - drop everything to get into the box office in time for these day price tickets, they are usually some of the best in the house. I shall always make the effort to do this in future.
I think this same method can be applied for many things in life. Don't accept the first offer and always put that extra effort in. If you have the courage to leave chance until the very last minute....you might be pleasantly rewarded with the results!
Lots of Londoners never visit the theatres and it's become an expensive extravagance to catch the west end shows - as they aim to lure the tourists in at the premium tickets prices. Understanding how the tickets work, where the best value seats are and how to dig for the right information, helped get us two decent premium seats at the last showing of Miss Saigon tonight for just £20 each instead of having to pay £75-£150. I love the theatre and we often go to smaller theatres and pay £8-£15. It means we go a lot more to the smaller shows than the larger ones. But, now I've learned to dig a little deeper to get better valued quality seats even at the major shows.
I call the theatre box office number direct (finding it using SayNoto0870), rather than using the other so-called cheap theatre ticket offices in and around town (over double the price today and not very good seats either). The key to getting the premium seats is to ask the question 'are you sure there's no other cheaper tickets?' It's surprising how the theatres will try to hide the special deals as they really want to maximise on the ticket sales at the tourist prices. When you get told the time for last minute tickets - drop everything to get into the box office in time for these day price tickets, they are usually some of the best in the house. I shall always make the effort to do this in future.
I think this same method can be applied for many things in life. Don't accept the first offer and always put that extra effort in. If you have the courage to leave chance until the very last minute....you might be pleasantly rewarded with the results!
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