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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Rupert Jones and Harriet Sherwood

‘Who can afford them?’: theatregoers react to £395 tickets for Neil Simon play

Sarah Jessica Parker and Mathew Broderick in Plaza Suite
Sarah Jessica Parker and Mathew Broderick star in the New York run of Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite. Photograph: Joan Marcus

When Plaza Suite, Neil Simon’s witty commentary on love and marriage, opened on Broadway in 1968, the most expensive seats in the house would have cost less than $10. The equivalent today would be about $88, or £71.

Next year, the show, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick, opens in London’s West End with tickets for premium “package” seats costing £395.

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