#in my experience ballet is like ‘you paid $90 for a student ticket but fuck you’

[thatgirlwhokeepsreading]

Me, every time I buy my season ticket for the state theatre company: urgh like $250 eight play package comes out to $32 per show, and that’s for the Under 30 concession, like no wonder it’s just industry peeps and old people who see theatre these days

Me, deciding I’m finally going to see some ballet and opera this year: okay, so the season package is… Jesus Christ Why Is This Twice The Money For Half The Shows. Why does the opera not have Under 30 or even youth tickets. You’re breaking the cost down by show, you’re showing it to me, why is this one where the music is prerecorded twice the price of this one where music live half the time and the same price as one where it’s only recorded music for matinee. Are instrumentalists not your biggest cost?? Is personnel not your biggest cost?????

#NOTICE FOR IF THIS POST BREACHES CONTAINMENT: I work in + am getting PhD in performing arts #unfortunately keeping up to date with the ~scene~ is part of my job #with that said #to be fair and balanced I got a further discount on my shows bc I got a refund from last years cancelations which means #*refund on my theatre package #five ballet shows was exactly double the price I paid #(once I’d gotten the U30 discount which was not initially visible) #and the children’s ballet (so cheapest) was still $45!! #pros of opera: season package allows you the same % discount on whatever type of seat #(ballet it’s 15-20% off second tier tickets which does make it marginally cheaper than just getting the worst tier seats but like… c’mon ) #so opera was four shows for around $50 a piece BUT they were all me picking the worst tier of seating and being full time student #and again they played the mind came of knocking $10-20 off when I got to the end and said of was a student (i.e. tickets were $60-70) #*mind game #also at my state theatre company if you have the full eight show package you can basically call and be like ‘🥺 can I move my ticket’ #and they’ll just do it #in my experience ballet is like ‘you paid $90 for a student ticket but fuck you’ #(to be clear I mean move the date you’re seeing the show) #and where the company has teired seating the season tickets get the best seats for their night on a first come first served basis #anyway capitalism was a mistake UBI now and subsidise the arts #(like these are all the state companies so I guess I mean Subsidise It More) #it me