Dallas-based theatergoers can enjoy a pay-what-you-want performance of Death of a Salesman at the Dallas Theater Center tomorrow. Tickets will be available at the theater starting at 10 AM the day of the performance. Who’ll glean a higher share of the list price: Arthur Miller or Radiohead? (HT: Larry Johnson)[%comments]
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I’d like to see something like this implemented at movie theaters. Only, I’d get to decide what to pay after I see the movie.
In Albany, at Capital Repertory, a very challenging company, very provocative,
they do pay what you will as a promotion
on the final day of dress rehearsals. So
they get an audience for final dress which
is skewed a bit towards economizing seniors and retirees, also nerdy singles without dates (that’s me waving from the
cheap seats, next to my imaginary friend.)
Usually, they make a point of doing some
rehearsal type stuff, in order to emphasize
it’s a rehearsal, so the director might stop
a scene, and ask the actors to do it again;
but mostly it’s just a very good performance. And a custom has evolved
of paying five dollars for the pay what you will, everyone pays five, which, come to think of it is way less than a movie. We have to get there before six and get in line
to get a ticket, for an eight p.m. show, but
bargain hunters love doing things like that.
And my imaginary friend, he gets in for
nothing. Nobody notices.
“Dallas-based theatergoers” or “theratergoers in Dallas”?