robin-hobart Posted March 4, 2014 Posted March 4, 2014 My daughters bought me 2 tickets for my b'day. Went along couple of weeks back. Pretty much what I expected - short history of his life and some video excepts from a handful of famous sketches. No new stuff other than his 'patter'. Quite interesting and entertaining, but not the sort of show I'd go to see twice. He calls it his 'Alimony Tour'. Which is why, at age 75, he's haunting the provinces. Three wives, the last being quite expensive at around GBP 12m settlement (according to Wiki). So I got to thinking. Our little Theatre Royal holds about 600. My ticket (cheap seats) was $150, and the place was sold out. That's a house take of at least $90,000; over 4 nights - $360,000. Call it $300,000 to be conservative. Just JC, a screen and loudspeakers - nothing else. About 2 hours on stage. I have no idea what a theatre like the Theatre Royal would cost to rent, but taking a guess (purely guesswork) that his outgoings/travel/accommodation/hangers-on, etc for 4 nights couldn't be more than half (surely an uber-worst case scenario) this leaves him with minimum $150,000 for 4 nights. Or $18,750 per hour. Unless my presumptions are wildly off the mark. I'd do it! 1
David.M Posted March 4, 2014 Posted March 4, 2014 I'd do it! You'd get married/divorced 3 times and pay your last ex $12M GBP???
robin-hobart Posted March 5, 2014 Author Posted March 5, 2014 You'd get married/divorced 3 times and pay your last ex $12M GBP??? I would love to be able to pay my ex-wife GBP 12m ! An interesting quote re his ex in Wiki:- "What I find so unfair is that if we both died today, her children would get much more than mine". 1
Gee Emm Posted March 5, 2014 Posted March 5, 2014 I hear ya! I loathe paying big money to see a handful of people on stage for an hour. But, I did pay $129 dollars to see ~150 people on stage for 4 hours last Sunday. Much better value for money MSO, adult choir, Melbourne boys choir, whilst watching LotR Return of the King.
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