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by Ronaldson » Thu Sep 21, 2017 3:55 pm
As others have said, the prices for this show are amazingly high, but in the frenzy of the presale one might forget to consider the relative quality of the seat being offered to you. From the seat map on the evenko presale page, it is evident that the best seats are all being sold at top price (and many of these are going to be tied into a VIP package, though not necessarily all of them). However, from my point of view at least, a large proportion of the seats being sold at the top price level are not all that great, especially on the floor. Although the very best seats are on the floor, this would only include the centre section of the first five or six rows, give or take. Nonetheless, it would appear that all of the seats in the first 30 or so rows are being sold at Price Level 1. The floor of the arena is not raked, so you do not have to be all that far from the stage before your view becomes obscured by people sitting in front of you. You can watch the video screens, of course, but then why spend so much for the seat? Also, if you are sitting in the front rows but only near the end of the row, you will have a poor sightline looking at the action on stage, and will not have a good view of the screens. If you agree with this perspective, several seats in the tiered sections 102 & 112, as well as in 101 & 113, would seem to offer much better value than all but the very best floor seats. I sat in section 113 for one of the Leonard Cohen concerts in 2012. It was a great seat -- and compared to today's price list, seems to have been a real bargain at $183!