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...with the Mirage's $28 million Siegfried & Roy, an astounding farrago of illusion and sorcery, acrobats and armies of the knights, vanishing tigers and elephants--and leather, leather everywhere. The evening now goes for $78.35 a ticket. With the possible exception of an all-night masseuse, this is the priciest entertainment on Broadway or the Strip. But Siegfried & Roy remains a huge...
...dears, that's one faded dream. The Great White Way still welcomes the big musicals, those theme parks with song cues, and a few dramas (usually developed elsewhere, often with subsidies). But it is now only one stop -- perhaps the biggest, and at $75 a top ticket surely the priciest -- on the world tour of hits. For original work, for vitality and glamour, more than ever, off- Broadway is the place...
Take those ticket prices. With a top fee of $350 a seat, the Streisand show (which begins its five-city U.S. swing this week in Washington) far surpasses even the priciest predecessors in the can-you-top-this field of concert extravaganzas. But Streisand doesn't see a problem. "I think this price is fair," she says. "If you amortize the money over 28 years, it's $12.50 a year. So is it worth $12.50 a year to see me sing? To hear me sing live? I'm not going to do it again...
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Among the crucial features of the home deck available on the DATman is the ability to find any track with pinpoint accuracy within seconds. At $849.95, this will be Sony's priciest Walkman ever. "Like all new consumer products, the initial price is high," admits Michael Vitelli, president of Sony Personal Audio Products, who expects that the first purchasers of the DAT Walkman will be the "high-end audiophile market and music enthusiasts." But, he adds, "the prices tend to come down when the demand is great enough, and the portable capabilities of the DAT Walkman will help popularize...