Here is the odd thing about New York. Odd and GREAT.
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Nearly every play has "producer" seats that are held for either the producer's friends or for the "premium" seats. The ones you can by for triple cost.
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Well, if they don't sell these seats they release them, usually sometime the day of the play.
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So yesterday I checked for South Pacific seats. South Pacific (at the Lincoln Center) won a lot of Tonys last year.. Best Musical Revival, Best Actor (left, Paul Szot) and others. For some reason, a lot of the original cast is back in the show for a short time (including Paul Szot and 3 other Tony nominees).
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Anyway, back to the Producer Seats. At 4:00PM yesterday I checked for seats, and they had just released great seats. Now granted, I paid full price - but not premium price. And we sat (honestly) 3rd Row Center! It was amazing.
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And the show WAS great. People were right, and it didn't suffer from expectation setting (as many shows billed as "great" usually do). The guy, Paul Szot, is an Opera singer from Brazil and he kicked ass.