Broadway enters Post-Holiday Doldrums

Fans looking to get their hands on Broadway Tickets have a unique opportunity as we begin to enter the post-holiday season. January and February and typically thought of as “shake-down” time on Broadway. This is the time when even the biggest shows and the biggest hits have a hard time filling seats. Ticket prices tend to drop during this period of time affectionately known of as the doldrums. It all comes down to a matter of point-of-view. Sure, Broadway isn’t the same without all the pomp and madness of the holiday season. But cheaper Broadway tickets are nothing to scoff at either.

Want proof that Broadway is entering the doldrums? Do a Google search for the term “Broadway” and see for yourself how little relevant material comes up.

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The good news though is that Broadway is coming off one of its finest years in a long time. The New York Times theater critic, Ben Brantley, says, “But this is the first year in my decade as chief theater critic of The New York Times in which Broadway, all by its big, bloated self, provided enough laurel-worthy shows that even a list of 10 can’t include them all. Never mind that the majority of them came from overseas or Off Broadway.”

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