An intelligent person wants to keep abreast of theatrical life and watch interesting news, but at the current prices for theater tickets this can be an expensive pleasure. To buy cheap theater tickets, you need to know some secrets and tricks.
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You will need
- - free time;
- - a computer with internet access;
- - money.
Instruction manual
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To purchase tickets at no extra charge, buy them only at the box office and as early as possible, perhaps even a month or two before the performance. Remember, all distributors, even kiosks of the Moscow Directorate of Theatrical and Spectacular Cash Desk (MTDZK), add their mark-up to the ticket price, and the cost can grow even up to 5-7 thousand rubles.
2
Take an interest in whether there are “entrance” tickets at the theater - at the same time you pay only for the entrance, and look for a place for yourself. Such tickets are inexpensive. Find out if there are preferential places for students, people with disabilities and senior citizens, while remember to get the appropriate certificate.
3
If you couldn’t get a ticket to the performance, but you want to get to it, try to wait on the entrance shortly before the start of the performance. Miracles happen, and in your lot, it is likely that there is an extra ticket or "entry".
4
Please note that in the summer the theater season freezes, tickets are cheaper, and free seats in the hall are much easier to find.
5
To buy a cheap ticket to the Bolshoi Theater, take a queue at the box office 60 days before the show, if you are lucky to be one of the first, you will get tickets simply at a ridiculous price. Keep in mind that evening shows are much more expensive than daytime ones. In addition, if you are a full-time student, you have a chance one hour before the show to buy a ticket for only 20 rubles, but you must stand a long line.
6
In the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov can buy tickets cheaply only at the box office at the price indicated on the website. At the same time, you can reserve seats for free.
7
It’s very difficult to get to the theater of Tabakova Theater, having paid only 300-500 rubles, for this constantly watch out for cheap tickets on the site.
8
To get into the Workshop of Pyotr Fomenko, sign up on the waiting list on the website, indicating the desired ticket price, and wait for the call from the administrator.
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To buy an inexpensive ticket for a performance in Lenkom or Sovremennik, get on the pre-sale of tickets (every Saturday from 11.00 to 12.00 - for beneficiaries and from 12.00 to 15.00 - for everyone else).
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In the theater to them. Vakhtangov’s cheap tickets can be easily bought at the box office: go in two to four weeks and buy them for only 100-150 rubles per seat.