How much does it cost total to go to a movie theater these days? Our symphony tickets have a list price of $110 each. What about a play or concert?
I typically only go to the fancy movie theater any more, unless it's a kids movie and we take the kids, in which case it's the normal theater. At the fancy theater I think it works out to ~$22/ticket. At the normal theaters I'm thinking it's about $15 for an adult (don't recall for a child).
We've seen a number of plays / musicals recently. Prices obviously vary depending on what production it is and how close you are. We're seeing Phantom of the Opera tomorrow, and because it's just my wife and I, I splurged for decent seats in the orchestra that run about $100/ea. We recently saw Aladdin with my oldest, but given that we weren't aiming for "great" seats with him we got seats in the balcony in the $40/ea range. Not too bad.
Similar with concerts. We recently saw Hootie and the Blowfish w/ Barenaked Ladies, and I was able to get pre-order tickets that were
quite good seats, but they set me back $175/ea. Again we had seats to a concert with my oldest of Darius Rucker / Lady Antebellum, which were much farther away but still cost about $75/ea. However I do think part of the difference was that the Hootie concert were tickets from the venue, not stubhub. I think the Darius Rucker tickets were stubhub, so they might have been marked up.
Granted, I don't know how heavily ticket prices correlate to cost of living in various areas... Obviously SoCal isn't cheap, but I don't know if that means that tickets are more expensive here than they would be in Atlanta or the Midwest, where cost of living is much lower.
