Word: twofers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When patches of empty seats begin to fester in the orchestra of a long-run Broadway hit, a producer will do anything that does not break the Lindbergh law to fill his seats. The commonest hookcrook is the "twofer," a pasteboard promising to sell the bearer two tickets for the price of one more or less. Press gangs range from Westchester to Harlem (where a growing middle class provides some of Broadway's steadiest customers) to drop twofer bait at insurance offices, union halls, colleges, doctors' waiting rooms and similar waterholes...