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...Jesus Christ Superstar, already jingling along three days after its opening with one of the largest ($1.2 million) advance sales in Broadway history, will become the one show of the season that must be seen to be believed-or doubted. Superstar tickets cost $60 a pair from your friendly scalper...
...event since the woolliest days of the Living Theater has the audience been such an integral part of the action. That is one reason why everyone-even the poor marginals there at the back of the room, even the desperate ones who have paid a scalper $40 or $50 for a Saint Laurent or a Montana invite-comes suited up for the part, often in something made by the designer who is showing. About 45% of the audience are buyers, another 45% press and the remainder an overdressed congregation of friends, fans and fashion groupies. There is great mutual gawking...
With 59,000 seats at the Yale Bowl open to Elis, and only 14,000 open to Harvard fans, a scalper in Cambridge has an advantage over his counterpart in New Haven...
EXCEPT FOR THE RAMONES and Soles, there's little to recommend Rock and Roll High School. Most of the jokes are silly, like this one--a fellow in Indian dress walks along the ticket line for the Ramones gig: "A scalper," one fan tells another knowingly. The soundtrack is good--music by Eno and Nick Lowe side by side with Alice Cooper and Todd Rundgren. (If you want to hear live Ramones recordings, though, don't buy this soundtrack album; get a double-album import called It's Alive, four uninterrupted sides of lobotomized thumping...
...newcomers are entering a world that until recently has been a mystery to all but a tiny circle of insiders, one that has its own language (scalper, old crop, new crop, cash grain) and rules. Technically, anyone who buys a future agrees to take delivery of-and pay for -a certain amount of a commodity that can be sent to him anywhere from a day to a year and a half after purchase. That arrangement has given more than one investor nightmares about having 5,000 bushels of wheat or five tons of sugar dumped on his doorstep. In fact...