By Ellis Nassour
Tickets are on sale now for NYC & Company’s fourth Broadway Week and 2-for-1 promotion (selling, as the name implies, 2 tickets for the price of one), September 7–20. There’ll be 22 shows participating.
Purchase at www.nycgo.com/broadwayweek; or, for extra savings, visit Broadway box offices, where those steep service fees don’t apply.
“The only thing better than seeing a Broadway show is the opportunity for two people to see a Broadway show for the price of one!” says Broadway League president Charlotte St. Martin. “The semi-annual NYC & Company promotion and their Restaurant Week is a much-anticipated event for savvy theater fans. There’s something for everyone–plays and musicals, including acclaimed shows, long-running hits with many of them Tony-winners.”
This is a sensational opportunity to see shows for the first time at a bargain price or to revisit your favorite shows. Among choice shows available are hot dramas, rolling-on-the-floor family comedies and musicals, long-running record-breakers – including hits from the 2014-2015 theater season.
Tickets are subject to availability and blackout dates may apply. This is an incredibly popular promotion and allotted tickets go fast.
“This is one of the best incentives for locals and tourist to experience the energy and excitement of Broadway,” said NYC & Company president and CEO Fred Dixon. “With10 new shows participating, there’s even more reason to take advantage of this savings opportunity.”
NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Commissioner Cynthia López says, “We’re proud to partner with NYC & Company to promote Broadway Week so more New Yorkers and visitors can experience live theater. “The energy found on Broadway can’t be beat!”
Enter the Official Broadway Week Sweepstakes, powered by Audience Rewards, for the opportunity to win dinner at Mastro’s, the spectacular steak and seafood restaurant at 52nd Street and Avenue of the Americas [Sixth Avenue]—and six tickets to a Broadway show of their choice for the winner and five friends.
Participating shows:
∙ Aladdin
∙ Amazing Grace
∙ An American in Paris
∙ Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
∙ Chicago,The Musical
∙ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – play
∙ Finding Neverland
∙ Fun Home
∙ A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
∙ Hand to God
∙ Hedwig and the Angry Inch
∙ Jersey Boys
∙ The King and I
∙ Kinky Boots
∙ Les Miserables
∙ The Lion King
∙ Matilda, the Musical
∙ Old Times – play
∙ The Phantom of the Opera
∙ Something Rotten!
∙ Spring Awakening
∙ Wicked
Broadway Week, hashtag #BroadwayWeek, is presented in partnership with American Express, Amtrak, Audience Rewards, The Broadway League, NBC 4 NY, NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, Telecharge, and Ticketmaster and with support from AARP New York.
