#86 DTRW TOUR - Sep 25 2019 - Madison Square Garden, NYC, NY, US(w.Bonnie Raitt)

[herlock]

Please correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me (or maybe I just try to reassure myself, having booked tickets / flight / hotel for MSG) that it would cost them more to cancel it at this stage than to keep it, even if half-empty. The fix costs must have already spent, the fee due to MSG by  PCM must not be refundable, as there is no way MSG can put another show last minute at this date ! So the only way to limit the damages is too keep the show and try to increase last-minute sales with last-minutes discounts. Let alone the impact in terms of image that a cancellation would have...

Am I missing something here ?

[qjamesfloyd]

They would be better of reducing the ticket prices, then they would fill the seats.

[Jules]

They would be better of reducing the ticket prices, then they would fill the seats.

Not only that but also do promotion for it.

People doesn't know magically that the high prices they saw one month ago are lower now. If they don't check again they would never know.

[binone]

I´d rather them not reducing the ticket prices. I still have 2 tickets on sale!! 

[Jules]

I´d rather them not reducing the ticket prices. I still have 2 tickets on sale!! 

I fear you won't sell them... with the big amount of tickets available 

[Darling Pretty]

or they skip the upper tier and upgrade everyone from there to the first tier.
They can be lucky if they sell 8k tickets.

Does anyone know how the BD/MK Brooklyn show sold?

[Billy’s Tune]

New song ... Pyroman!!
Previously played with Bonnie, just this time all the guitars are replaced by brass and flutes!

[Shai]

MK opened for Bob Dylan in 2012, a few weeks after Superstorm Sandy, as I recall. It was at Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, and it was a sellout.

I would say 80% Dylan fans and 20% Mark. Mark played a great set for around an hour, then stayed around and played on Dylan's first 3 songs. My wife and I had floor seats, but when Dylan came on, she couldn't stand his "voice", so she said she's going to the concessions and for me. After Mark left the stage, we left the arena. So my point is, I don't expect too many people to be like we were and show up for Bonnie's set and then leave before Mark. At least, my wife like's Mark's voice; she's been hearing me play him for 35 years so far!!

Saul

[vr46mk]

Seems like ticket prices have indeed been reduced.
Saw a post on Facebook where one person bought tickets for $150, same seats were $250 last week.

[dmg]

Seems like ticket prices have indeed been reduced.
Saw a post on Facebook where one person bought tickets for $150, same seats were $250 last week.

    TS if you bought tickets last week!

[binone]

Seems like ticket prices have indeed been reduced.
Saw a post on Facebook where one person bought tickets for $150, same seats were $250 last week.

    TS if you bought tickets last week!

True, sections A and C has lowered the back seats to 150, and sectiona 1, 2 and 3, from 150 to 129,50. The cheapest now are under the 50 bucks.

[dmg]

Seems like ticket prices have indeed been reduced.
Saw a post on Facebook where one person bought tickets for $150, same seats were $250 last week.

    TS if you bought tickets last week!

True, sections A and C has lowered the back seats to 150, and sectiona 1, 2 and 3, from 150 to 129,50. The cheapest now are under the 50 bucks.

Makes you wonder at the end of the day if this show may actually make a profit at all.

[qjamesfloyd]

More to the point, it makes you wonder why the tickets were that sky high price in the first place

[Millionaire Blues]

Ticket bought, regardless of the merits of whether this concert should have been scheduled or not, seeing MK in New York in potentially his last ever concert is still special.

Rock on Mark

 

[Jules]

Ticket bought, regardless of the merits of whether this concert should have been scheduled or not, seeing MK in New York in potentially his last ever concert is still special.

Rock on Mark

 

Well done!

I'd say that it's not if it should have been scheduled, but how it was scheduled... If you already had two nights in New york, scheduling another one in a bigger venue seems odd... Looks how it's done in Europe. They schedule first the BIG O2 arena in London, when the sales are close to sold out, then they release two nights at the RAH, which is smaller and nicer than the O2.

In NY they did opposite. They released first the small and nice venue concerts, and after the big one. It's a rare strategy when you know there is no such big market for MK in the USA... They could had scheduled first the MSG only, and avoid the two other concerts, or release first the MSG and after it sells well, release the Beacon theater concerts.

We don't like when PCM does that with the O2 arena and the RAH, but the disaster of the MSG concert in NY explains very well why they do it that way.