Word: scalpers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worry if you don't have tickets. You can get bleacher seats for $5 from the ticket office, or if the Yankees are in town, there's always a seedy looking scalper nearby eager to sell you the "best seat in the house...
...charged him face value. I wasn't much of a scalper...
Immediately, our senses were assaulted by the sights and sounds of the new season. "Tickets, get your tickets here," shouted one scalper. "Only three dollars. Get your tickets...
...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...