<p>Ok - I know about the ticket booths. See some on-line sites. Have read some about the shows. Have seen Wicked and Lion King.</p>
<p>We will arrive Mid Friday afternoon - love to see a show that night - but hate to pre-buy in case we have flight problems. Ideas for best way to get tickets to something good that late?</p>
<p>Also can go Tuesday evening - can pre buy. Son would love to see book of Mormon - but the cheap seats, and I say that lightly - as ALL seats are expensive for this show are sold out. </p>
<p>Taking two teen boys. Spiderman? </p>
<p>So taking suggestions on shows, and best way to secure reasonable tickets. Thanks.</p>
<p>We had seen Wicked and American Idiot before. We all LOVED those, including the teenage son. Went back with 2 teenage boys to see Spiderman, thought it was terrible, acting and mediocre singing, plot boring. I’d ignored the bad reviews, thinking hey, we’re not too picky and we’re not critics, this should entertain teenagers. Unless something has changed drastically lately, I don’t think it was any better than a good high school musical with great special effects. So much money wasted!</p>
<p>We also saw Phantom of the Opera, which was better (not near as good as the first two), but you really need good seats for these shows. I’m thinking the Book of Mormon next time, but those tickets are really tough to get and pricey, plus it may be a little over the line for the rest of the family. Good luck getting those tickets! I’d love some good suggestions too.</p>
<p>Also, you can go to BroadwayBox.com where there are discount offers on various shows for particular dates. You did not mention your dates, but right now, there is a discount for Peter and the Starcatcher and so check that out.</p>
<p>If I could get tickets to see anything on Broadway I would go for either Once or Book of Mormon. Sadly both are now Tony Award winning shows and tickets are being hiked up like crazy. </p>
<p>If I had to take my cousin (who is 16) to see a show maybe One Man, Two Guvnors. Newsies would be a good option also since it is in that same age range. Avenue Q is still on Off Broadway right? Peter and the Star Catcher too sounds good. I definitely want to see that.</p>
<p>How old teen? We went to Fuerza Bruta and there were all ages. It’s a different, wild interactive(ish) show. There’s an 8 and 10:30 show on Friday nights. We all loved it (2 parents, a 25 yo man & a 22 yo woman).</p>
<p>Just saw War Horse in LA last night! INCREDIBLE. It’s on Broadway and tickets have been available through the TKTS booth lately (even in March when I was in NY last). It’s a great show and again well received by all ages.</p>
<p>You won’t be able to see Book of Mormon for months and months, regardless of the type of seat, unless you buy in the secondary market (Stub Hub, eBay). The likely cost? Well, friends of ours just paid $380 per ticket to take the family to that show. </p>
<p>Tickets for Friday night shows start selling at TKTS at 2PM and continue right up to curtain time. By the time you get there, the selection may not be that great, but on the other hand, some theaters don’t send their unsold seats to TKTS until late in the day, so you never know–that’s part of the fun, IMO. I believe there’s an app that allows you to check out what’s available so you can see if it’s even worth walking over there.</p>
<p>Spiderman is probably a good choice for the teen boys, and has been available at TKTS–and while you couldn’t drag me there, the adults I know who saw it found it entertaining enough, though not in the “great” category.</p>
<p>I happen to think that everybody on earth should see Avenue Q, and I guarantee the teen boys will love it–there’s a raunchy part that will likely embarrass you–just look away from your kids for that part and pretend it didn’t happen.</p>
<p>Newsies has lots of terrifc dancing and a somewhat corny story–teen boys might like it or might be rolling their eyes, depends on the kids.</p>
<p>I second Fuerza Bruta, as long as you aren’t too tired to stand. Also, Rent for teens, although I havent seen the off-broadway one. But the story and music are very appealing.</p>
<p>Last minute tickets…you can probably just be ready to order through the on line sites when you know your flight is working out. Or go to TKTS when you arrive and see what’s left.</p>
<p>The Marriott Marquis in Times Square has a theater ticket booth in the lobby (on the 8th floor) We’ve gotten tickets there last minute (same thing- didn’t want to buy ahead in case travel plans went wrong). They are so nice and the mark up from face value is very reasonable- 10%?</p>
<p>Our family loved Book of Mormon, but I’d hesitate taking young teens to that show.And yes, we paid through the nose for those tickets because my H insisted on seeing it on a particular day during our visit to NY.</p>
<p>War Horse is at the Lincoln Center, not Broadway, but yes, is truly remarkable. </p>
<p>Wicked is great but more girl-centric, imo. American Idiot would be fun. Good ol’ Lion King is a must for the visuals if they’ve not seen it before, and teen boys might like the nostalgia of seeing their childhood movie come to life.</p>
<p>jaylynn, the Vivian Beaumont Theatre is considered a Broadway theatre. American Idiot closed over a year ago. :)</p>
<p>Teenage boys would likely enjoy War Horse, Newsies, Rent, Avenue Q, probably even Spiderman although, in my opinion, it’s not a very good show so I wouldn’t recommend it. Book of Mormon is fun but overhyped and Avenue Q is the better of the two Bobby Lopez shows currently running. If you want to see BOM, don’t be scared away by claims of no tickets available for months and months. It’s just not true. Half of my family who were in the city for the Tonys last week got tickets through Telecharge two weeks prior to that for BOM. Another D ordered tickets, again through Telecharge this week for a night in the first week of July. So it’s not as impossible as some believe.</p>
<p>Do you specifically want to see a musical? If you choose a play, the tickets are less expensive and often more readily-available. I’d suggest The Best Man, which is star-studded and entertaining. And the set is really beautiful, so you’d still get that sense that you are seeing something with extraordinary production values, which is one thing Broadway always seems to offer!</p>
<p>For musicals, Sister Act is a lot of fun, and the sets and costumes are great. It’s closing in August so the tickets may become harder to get right towards the end of the run. </p>
<p>Personally, I don’t care for “jukebox” musicals (where the show is assembled around pre-existing pop songs), but if you don’t object, teen boys might like either Jersey Boys or Rock of Ages. (Of course, the Rock of Ages movie just came out…)</p>
<p>I always check BroadwayBox for discounts because I feel uncomfortable rolling the dice with the TKTS booth. However, if you meet one of several criteria for membership in TDF (and I think one of them is “student”), you can join for $25/year and have access to some heavily-discounted not-quite-last-minute tickets that you can purchase ahead of time online. Check out TDF.org for more information. (TDF is the organization that runs the TKTS booths.)</p>
<p>I also check broadwaybox for tickets. If you don’t order thru their site prior to arrival, if you print out the discount and take it to the box office they will honor that price. Not as discounted as TKTs but no lines! The Seaport TKTs and Brooklyn TKTs are not as crazy as times square.</p>
<p>Heard Spiderman got revamped and it sounds fun. Don’t know how recently above posters saw it.
I saw Peter and the Starcatcher 2 weeks ago (before the tony awards). It was GREAT! Non stop action! Standing ovation for several minutes. It won for best actor but unfortunately that actor is soon leaving to be in a TV show. don’t know your timing. Lot’s of great talent.
Newsies won for musical and heard great things about it from several sources.
I didn’t see Memphis but heard it was great and left you feeling good. Someone said it was one of many plays they had seen (a New Yorker) that they would return to. another friend of mine loved it also.
Avenue Q is amazingly funny (saw it years ago) but a bit off-color. But it’s puppets. but it is off-color. think Sesame street on premium channels. Depends on the teenage boys and how open you are. My probably bit-too-young kids at the time loved it and still talk about it (I won’t volunteer if that’s good or bad but it was funny.) It was really different and a great surprise to us at the time. I’d go back.</p>
<p>The Best Man–I just saw that too–was great but for teenage boys I’d vote against it. My H and I loved it (partially for the cast of greats) but D didn’t know anybody in it. She enjoyed the play a lot but she’s older. I don’t think a teen would enjoy it as much as the others. It’s a revival of a play from the '60’s about politics.</p>
<p>Depends what your boys are into. My son loved Memphis. I saw it for the second time with him, and it was just as enjoyable, if not better the second time around. It’s a “toe-tapper”, high-energy music and great story.</p>