David Mamet’s 1983 stage play Glengarry Glen Ross might be greatest identified nowadays for the 1992 movie model starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin and extra. Full of chopping, usually hilarious dialogue, and its justifiable share of pathos, the story of a number of determined real-estate salesmen is a contemporary traditional. And it is now getting a stage revival on Broadway, with tickets already promoting for a value that even the slick Ricky Roma would approve of.
While this new model of Glengarry Glen Ross continues to be in previews at Manhattan’s Palace Theatre, resell tickets are going for greater than $1,000 on websites like StubHub… I consider you requested some details about Rio Rancho Properties, Madam?
Perhaps the inflated resell value is due partly to latest Oscar-winner Kieran Culkin being a part of the forged. He performs the charismatic Roma, the position Al Pacino crammed within the movie model. But it is a stacked forged, together with Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk because the washed-up Shelly “The Machine” Levene, Bill Burr because the fast-talking Dave Moss, and Michael McKean because the put-upon George Aaronow.
The present forged is barely supposed to be a part of a 16-week engagment, which is little question additionally fueling the gross sales frenzy right here. Gothamist experiences that seats within the orchestra part had been promoting for $1,034 every on Stubhub yesterday. But the positioning additionally factors out that there are nonetheless open seats accessible later in May, and resale costs are going for rather more than a daily retail ticket.
I truly attended the present this week. My ticket was bought earlier than the present’s run began, and I paid about $125 for a seat within the far proper of the orchestra part (I grew to become fairly well-acquainted with the column I used to be sitting subsequent to). As of this writing, an analogous seat for this Saturday’s matinee is promoting on StubHub for $1302.
Gothamist additionally factors out that whereas the resale market is driving costs up, the official website for the present has “dynamic pricing” which adjustments prices in actual time — sometimes leading to greater costs too.
But hey, shares, bonds, objects of artwork, actual property… even manner over-priced Broadway exhibits. You know what Ricky Roma would say they’re? An alternative!
