Who loves Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells enough to pay an exorbitant amount of money to not watch them onstage?
One unlucky theatre content creator, Katharine Quinn, paid $120 to see Gutenberg The Musical in a box seat, and her view was blocked by a lighting rig. Quinn knew she had bought an obstructed viewing seat but traditionally obstructed viewing means the proscenium may block a portion of upstage or there's a pole blocking one side (and they’re like 40 bucks).
“No one should have to pay $120 to look through a hole in a light tree,” she says in another video explaining her experience. “Like thank god I work in the industry and I’m used to weird ass angles but can you imagine if this was someone who had never seen a Broadway show before?”
Theatre fans on the internet have gotten into plenty of discourse about the accessibility of Broadway but Quinn's audience is in agreement; that seat for that price should be illegal.
This obstructed view seat is so bad and so expensive, that one person in her comments said she should’ve taken the light with her at the end of the night as a refund. (At the very least, give her hourly wage and IATSE card for basically manning a spotlight the whole show).
“It was such an unpleasant experience it took me half of Act One to calm down,” she explains.
“This is a seat that shouldn’t be sold. You say the house is sold out before you give someone this seat. This is not a viewable experience. This is not a Broadway experience. This is definitely not a $120 experience.”
Gutenberg The Musical may be selling out but it’s simultaneously clocking certain audience members in to light Josh Gad correctly.
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