Broadway tickets help

Any good suggestions on a reputable way to get tickets to a Broadway show (My girlfriend wants to see Phantom in NYV) at less than face value? I know there are services, but I can seem to tell them apart on line and I don't want to get screwed.

Thanks in advance,

 

Actually, I'm glad you started this thread. I was wondering the same thing for a trip to NYC sometime during the next year or so.

 

you're not guaranteed a ticket but if any are available below cost, this is where they'll be other than maybe on craigslist or some place like that.

TKTS ® Times Square Theatre Center
is temporarily located just outside the New York Marriott Marquis hotel on West 46th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue (read about this)

Hours:

Mondays, Wednesdays,
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays
for 8pm perfs: 3pm - 8pm

Tuesday’s from 2pm - 8pm

Wednesdays and Saturdays
for 2pm matinees: 10am - 2pm

Sundays for matinees:
11am - 3pm
Sundays for evening perfs:
3pm TO CLOSING


TKTS ® Lower Manhattan Theatre Center at South Street Seaport ( the corner of Front and John Streets, the rear of the Resnick/Prudential Building at 199 Water Street )

Hours:
TKTS SOUTH STREET WILL BE CLOSED
THANKSGIVING DAY THU, NOV 23, 2006

Monday - Friday 11:00am to 6:00pm
Wednesday matinee tickets are available on Tuesday ONLY

Saturday 11:00am to 6:00pm Saturday matinee tickets are available on Friday

Sunday matinee tickets will be sold on Saturday from 11am to 4pm. Please note that there are no tickets for Saturday matinee performances available on Saturday

Sunday: 11:00am to 3:00pm for Sunday Evening performances only

There are no full price tickets sold at any TKTS Booth.

Easily reachable by subway, you can take the J,M,Z, 2,3,4,5 to Fulton Street or the A,C to Broadway-Nassau. The M15 bus travels down Second Avenue to the Seaport.

 

Rachael Ray featured this on her $40 a day in NYC. She did say you had to get there early because of lines and that you can't be picky on what time you want to see a show or really what show you want to see.

 

TKTS really is a good deal, especially for the plays that aren't the mega-musicals. I caught "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" and "Faith Healer" out of TKTS on one road trip.
Also, talk the GF out of "Phantom," for the love of god.

 

To avoid the long lines, go to the TKTS at the Seaport. And Fen's right, start making your best arguments against Phantom as soon as you can.

 

I saw the Brent Spiner-Michael Cumpsty "1776" and the Natasha Richardson-Alan Cummings "Cabaret" at the Roundabout which is sort of On/off-Broadway. (Small house, on the east side of the square.)
TKTS, on both of them, by the way.

 

Thanks. No talking her out of Phantom.

 

Phantom's not a bad show. I've seen it probably five or six times. If she hasn't seen it, you owe it to her. It may not have Sarah Brightman nor Michael Crawford, but it's still a good show.

 

Phantom's a great woman's show. Your chances of scoring at TKTS are excellent. And if it's not up there, go to the box office. Don't believe they're selling out with any regularity, at this point.
Most everyone who's wanted to see it . . . has seen it.