I love Parade, it's one of my favorites and has been since college (2009 or so). I got to see it once as another college's production and loved it obviously but have literally not once observed it in the wild since then or seen it talked about anywhere

we were just looking at Seattle theatre stuff and saw that Parade was gonna be here in April and I was like oh fuck we should go

but tickets are THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS?

like they START there?

which is Hamilton in 2017 prices

so I'm like what the fuck is happening, did Parade get really popular suddenly

if you have any insight on this I'm curious to know, on the one hand it's exciting if more people get into it, but on the other hand god fuck you let normal people go see musicals

for comparison, Hamilton will also be back but it's only 125

"only"

that is an insane price for parade

it's a sideboard but that shit actively makes me mad, professional theatre is so inaccessible to anyone below a certain pay grade and that is NOT what it's ABOUT but whatever america capitalism etc

starting at 300 is insane

were these Ticketmaster dynamic prices and/or resale?

when Hamilton came around it was 400+ but I've never seen anything come close to that

That is bananas

Parade did get a boost because Ben Platt was in the revival in NYC, so a lot of Dear Evan Hansen fans discovered it, but like ... I did not pay $300 to see it with Ben Platt in it

ammmy is obviously the expert but having looked at some Broadway tickets lately those prices sound like an elaborate scam targeting you personally as a Parade superfan

how did it KNOW

also chris directed me to where he saw it, it was just here

but tickets aren't even on sale yet

so I think something is screwy

but also it's not unheard of because Hamilton really was that expensive at one point

I think we also got priced out of Hadestown but I don't remember what it was

but those have been like The Zeitgeist, I've just never heard of Parade being massively popular

Yeah I think it's slightly more buzzy just now because the NY revival got a lot of attention, but it's still a show I would not expect my non-theater friends to have even heard of (in contrast to, like, Hadestown)

But fingers crossed the website is just wrong and will be corrected before they're on sale

yeah

if nothing else The Last Five Years is also happening around then at a much more reasonable $50-60/ticket so we can still get our Jason Robert Brown fix ig

this is an insane tangent but the current era of Sesame Street that we're watching has Elmo The Musical at the end of each episode, where they do a pastiche of existing shows but with some gimmick like 'elmo is a bird' or 'elmo wants to join the circus' and they get guest stars and stuff

but there's a repairman one and part of the main song is just incredibly Last Five Years in a way that's difficult for me to describe

with his tape. and his glue. Elmo promise you... he'll take half and half and make it whole again

it hits the same beat as like. "what about you, Jaime, what about you"

elmo is sure something wonderful died

plurk hid from me that ammmy was already here but glad to be not wrong. also I only know parade as a (defunct??) magazine