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Originally Posted by ashkent7
I would guess that some of the price is dependant on the cost of production and with the stuff that I've seen I'm guessing there are more costs involved than with a lot of big shows.
Other than that...it is still a show in a theatre so the prices were always going to be at least in line with other top productions. And London is London. We were going to see the Lion King when it toured and tickets up here were £65 for second tier seats in the dress circle (we didn't get to see it as my wife went into labour an hour before it started a week early after joking for months that if she had it during the show I was going to Simba it with the baby on the balcony) So London tickets are always over inflated anyway, but, so is everything else down there.
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It's very suspicious what is going on with Lion King. I went to see the show 6 years ago and easily got two front row tickets one month in advance. Two years later I went again and had similar front row seats. I'm not 100% sure but it appears now that by looking at quite a few dates, either through the Lion King site itself or ticketmaster front row seats for the middle area where I've sat are never available, no matter how far you go into the future.
Furthermore the best advanced ticket prices for the front stalls area seems to be around £77
In 2011 I paid £105 for two tickets, in 2013 it was £120. So now you can't really go for much less than £154 for two people if you want to sit near the front at least (and these are not what the venue thinks are the very best seats btw).
It's quite an increase and I'm guessing those front middle area tickets are going straight to resellers now.
Shame.
I hope resellers are not getting their hands on tons of Bat tickets, but it wouldn't surprise me.