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Here is one of the best ways to get hold of cheap theatre tickets – as part of a hotel and theatre ticket package deal.

If you fancy seeing Chicago, Phantom or Billy Elliot London in February or for Valentines Day then these are the cheap theatre tickets to go for:

Chicago, Saturday Matinee, 13th Feb 2010 with 2 night stay at Holiday Villa Hotel, Bayswater £208.50
book here

Chicago, Saturday Matinee, 13th Feb 2010 with 2 night stay Ambassadors Kensington £216.50
book here

Phantom of Opera, Evening, Friday 5th Feb with 1 night Ambassadors Kensington £173.60
book here

Billy Elliot, Friday 12th February, Evening with 2 night stay Jolly Hotel St Ermin’s, St James’ Park £284.50
book here

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Top offers this week for Cheap Theatre Tickets

We have some great rates available this week for some fantastic shows:

Oliver! Tickets – Great availability all week and this weekend with prices
starting from £20

Les Miserables Tickets , see the show that inspired Susan Boyle to Dream the
Dream – great seats available all week and this weekend from as little
as £39

Dirty Dancing Tickets – from just £35 all week.

Great weekend offers:

The Misanthrope starring Keira Knightley – Great seats available
Friday and Saturday with prices starting from £33

Thriller Live! tribute to Michael Jackson – Fantastic availability Friday
and Saturday with prices from just £55

Mamma Mia! – Fantastic seats available all weekend, starting at £39

Inherit the Wind – Great seats available all weekend from just £33

In addition to these great offers, we also have 3 fantastic offers for
Wicked, Les Miserable and The Lion King for the New Year 2010 :

Wicked – Top Price seats from £40

The Lion King – No booking fee

Les Miserables – Top price seats £39

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In this post I want to differentiate between cheap theatre tickets and cheap seats. First, what are the “cheap seats”?

Cheap seats in the theatre

The cheap seats in each theatre are those where the live theatre experience is lessened to some extent, either by being a long way back from the stage, by being up in the ‘gods’ with a downward perspective or else by having a restricted view of the performance due to the interior design of the theatre building. Remember that most if not all of the old theatres in London’s theatreland were built during the victorian era before modern contructions methods, so they often have large pillars holding the upper tiers and roof up. That’s a good thing, because you wouldn’t want the theatre to collapse during a performance, but it does mean that there are some tickets available which have a very good reason for being at the very bottom end of the price band. These cheap seats can be great for some shows, particularly the classic musicals, but only if you know about it beforehand, so as not to be disappointed when you finally get seated in the auditorium.

Cheap Theatre Tickets

The real deal though, is to book good seats at the best prices. A small quantity of cheap theatre tickets might be available for same day performances, but in general a lot of the best seats are bought up in bulk way in advance and then sold on. It’s almost like a futures commodity market, with agencies betting on the longevity and future popularity of a new show, before the critics give it a mauling. You can take advantage of the block booked seats by checking out all of the theatre breaks and theatre meal deals websites online, with a good possibility of getting best seats with a hotel or meal combined into a very reasonable package which makes the cheap theatre tickets themselves seem like a bargain.

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First the bad news. It’s a long standing piece of British mythology that there’s a plentiful supply of cheap theatre tickets available for any top London show if you just know where to look and are willing to see a show on the same day as you buy the cheap tickets. This myth has generated a whole series of discount ticket shops around Leicester Square but I’m afraid all they are mostly selling is in fact tickets for the cheap seats.

The good news is that half price tickets for the best seats do become available for certain shows on a same day basis, but there is a fair bit of effort involved in queuing up at the only official half price ticket booth or else at the theatres them on the morning of the show. See the Offical TKTS website for the limited list of today’s cheap theatre tickets

Another way to get cheap theatre tickets is to buy them as part of package especially when there are special offers on such as during February to March and in July and August. At these times you may be able to get a free West End restaurant meal or even a free London hotel deal included in the overall price, which if you factor in to the overall expenses can make for some extremely cheap theatre tickets indeed.

It’s always worth checking the online prices for special dates as well, for example if a new show is out then you can usually pick up cheap tickets for good seats during the early period of the run, such as in the week or two running up to the official opening night. You then get to tell all your friends what you thought of the musical before even the major critics reviews are printed!

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