Face Value Broadway Tickets
A guide to the various sources of face value or "Full price with no mark-up" Broadway Tickets
Ideally, you want to buy your Broadway tickets at a discounted price, by using Broadway discount codes or other special discount options such as rush tickets. But sometimes, especially for popular Broadway shows, discount tickets aren't available. If you search around Google for Broadway tickets, you'll find lots of ticket brokers wanting to charge you a big mark-up, but you shouldn't fork over all that cash to those guys until you have looked into regular full price tickets. Below is a list of the services that sell Broadway tickets at their regular full price (also known as 'face value').
Telecharge
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This is the official ticket outlet for Broadway shows that reside in theaters owned by Jujamcyn Theatres and the Shubert Organization, as well as Lincoln Center Theater, which accounts for about 70% of all Broadway shows. Telecharge, which is in fact owned by the Shuberts, also sells tickets for many Off-Broadway shows and other performance events. |
Telecharge doesn't charge more than full price for Broadway tickets, but it does add on a service charge and a handling fee. They also sell the "Premium" tickets, which are a selection of the best seats in the theater sold for a price that is set much higher than regular full price. |
| Ticketmaster |
Broadway tickets are just one of many types of tickets that are sold through this well-known ticketing outlet. Ticketmaster is the official ticket outlet for Broadway shows residing in theaters owned by the Nederlander Organization and for all Disney On Broadway shows, which is about 30% of all the shows on Broadway. |
Ticketmaster charges regular full-price for Broadway tickets, but it adds on a convenience charge, a processing fee, and sometimes delivery fees. Ticketmaster also sells the higher-priced Premium tickets. |
The Theatre Box Office
Every Broadway Theatre has one |
Every Broadway theater has its own box office that sells full-price tickets to the show playing there during regular business hours. In the old days, waiting in line at the box office was pretty much the only way to get Broadway tickets. Nowadays, you can save the hassle by ordering tickets online or by phone through Ticketmaster or Telecharge. However, if you live in New York City, sometimes it's just as easy to drop in at the theater box office, where there are seldom lines anymore and you can discuss your seating choices directly with a knowledgeable box office rep. |
Those annoying convenience and handling surcharges can be avoided by buying Broadway tickets at the box office. One surcharge you can't escape, though, is the "theater restoration fee" (sometimes called a "facilities fee"), an extra charge that even newly-renovated theaters now demand. It's just another way that Broadway ticket buyers are nickel and dimed. |
The Broadway Ticket Center
Located at the Visitors Center in Times Square |
If you're in Times Square and want to get full-price Broadway tickets, but you're not sure which show and you don't want to hop around from one Broadway theater to another, the Broadway Ticket Center is a good place to go. Operated by Live Broadway (owned bt the Broadway League) this ticket outlet sells full-price tickets to every Broadway show, so it's one-stop shopping. |
As with the Broadway box offices, there are no convenience and handling charges here. But the major disadvantage of buying tickets at the Broadway Ticket Center is that, if you do have a Broadway discount code, you can't use it here. Those can only be used directly at the box office, or on Ticketmaster or Telecharge. |
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