nyc42.lol Harry Potter at Broadway Week
Lyric Theatre, 213 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York City · Organized by New York City Tourism + Conventions
- Format
- In person
- Where
- Lyric Theatre, 213 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York City
- Organizer
- New York City Tourism + Conventions
Of the twenty-five productions in NYC Broadway Week, this is the one where the offer is worth the most — and it is worth reading why, because the reason is not that it is the best show on the list.
Why the saving is biggest here
A two-for-one discounts a seat, not a production. It is worth most where the seat was expensive to begin with and where it is rarely cheap by any other route. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the longest and most technically elaborate thing on Broadway, it plays a big house, and it does not turn up week after week in the discount channels the way the long-running musicals do.
Two-for-one on a rarely discounted ticket is a different purchase from two-for-one on a ticket that was going to be discounted anyway. This is the clearest case of the first kind on the list.
Where
The Lyric Theatre, on West 43rd Street between Seventh and Eighth — its street address is 213 West 42nd. It is one of the largest houses on Broadway, which is both why the ticket is expensive and why the gap between a good seat and a poor one is wide.
The catch
The offer exists for the fortnight, not for every performance in it. Each production sets its own blackout dates and releases its own allocation of eligible seats. Check this listing for the night you actually want before you book anything around it — a dinner reservation on a blacked-out night is the usual way this goes wrong.
Because this is a long evening in a big house, the seat you are allocated matters more here than almost anywhere else on the list. If the offer comes back with only the back of the balcony, it is worth checking what a mid-house seat costs at full price before accepting: on a show built this heavily on stagecraft, the cheap pair can cost you the thing you came for.
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