Gobsmacked At The Uplift!!

[cassa333]

Serves me right for not realising but ... What a rip off...

OH has a big 0 birthday coming up and he wanted to see The Mouse Trap in London so I duly went on-line to get a couple of tickets and the cheapest I could get was £61 each. Paid that and the booking fee of £1.45 and the tickets arrived today. Face value £47.50 so I paid £123.45 for tickets that cost £95

Not doing that again.

[hereIam]

I Love going to the theatre, but buying the tickets is always a rip-off with everything they add on to the actual ticket price - almost have to take out a mortgage sometimes !

[Peter Pedant]

I paid £60 to a tout for a standing ticket (!) at Chekhov's Ivanov - Kenneth Branagh leading

it was just a few weeks before my hip replacement
and I said to a 20 y o student - theres a seat over there why dont you go and sit in it ?

and she said - we all think you should .....

( I staggered over )

good performance

[EDDIE51]

You must have gone to a ticket agency rather than the actual box office. The box office can only sell the tickets at the face value and no booking fee.

[EDDIE51]

The Mousetrap is at St Martins Theatre as it has been since 1976!
https://www.the-mousetrap.co.uk/online/default.asp#
This is the box office website , tickets available at nearly all performances from £17.50 !!!

[Bazile]

I think this is the official box office

http://www.boxoffice.co.uk/arts-and-theatre-tickets/plays/mousetrap-tickets/checkticketavailability.aspx?date=2017-03-11&performance=E&qty=1

[Peter Pedant]

Eddie The mousetrap moved there in 1976
( big fol de rol at the time )
it started I think in 1952
and is easily the longest running play anywhere
( more fol de rol at 50th anniversary )

[EDDIE51]

Bazile that link is to another ticket agency that just happens to call itself 'Boxoffice'
My link is the the St Martins Theatre web site which is where The Mousetrap is playing.As said, it has seats available from £17.50

[237SJ]

Yes but the £17.50 tickets are for the upper circle. Don't forget to take your binoculars

[jno]

it's like train tickets - alsways go to the source before you start on brokers and touts

[237SJ]

I bought tickets for U2 at Twickenham at the stadium and I still paid nearly £30 in booking fees for 3 tickets. Even though I was at the box office, the tickets were marketed through Ticketmaster.

[237SJ]

Oh Gosh, I have just googled to see when I went to see U2 at Twickers and I see they are going to be there this summer so now I have to go again. It's nice that bands are coming here instead of Wembley though.

[cassa333]

I didn't realise I could get tickets from the theatre. But I should have really it is quite obvious.

I will next time though.

My two are aghast that no one lets on what the ending is and are sure there must be a book out somewhere.

TBH I am surprised there isn't more spilling of beans on the internet and stuff.

[bednobs]

i saw it when it toured in 2012. Total snoozefest IMHO. The book is called three blind mice

[Jackdaw33]

Do you want to know who did it? Save you a trip.

[cassa333]

Too late Jackdaw. The kids are staying with grandparents and I've already paid for the tickets and a night in a Travelodge.

[Jackdaw33]

As a Christie fan I always promised myself to go and see it if it ever came on tour. Unfortunately, purely by accident, I came across something on the internet which revealed the identity of the murderer.
I was very disappointed, put me right off.

[jno]

the whole plot is on Wikipedia should you really want to spoil things

[Buenchico]

When I saw the title of your post I thought that you'd just bought a fantastic new bra!
;-)

The 'TKTS' outlet in Leicester Square (run by the Society of London Theatre) sells 'on the day' tickets for many shows which haven't sold out. I've never seen a single day when The Mouse Trap hasn't been included in the shows on offer, so it's obvious that tickets aren't in really great demand. (Unlike some of the other shows though, where there are massive discounts for last minute purchases, tickets for The Mouse Trap always seem to be sold at full price). Tickets for the 7.30pm performance tomorrow are available for just £22.50 in the upper circle and for £35.00, £39.50 and £46.00 in the stalls (both from the theatre and from Tkts). Roughly similar prices are available for Saturday's performances.

For 'short notice' tickets TKTS is the only place to look. For further ahead you should only book via the theatre's website (or, of course, from their physical box office) or via the website of the Society of London Theatre:
http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/buy-tickets/

[Jackdaw33]

I don't want to spoil it for those wishing to see it.I regret having found out via the web the denouement. I would have loved to have seen it. All I will say is that, as usual for Christie, the murderer is the very last person you would suspect.