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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 778505, member: 19065&quot;]Firstly, hiho, this is a much better thread, to me, than the &#039;spouse&#039; related thread I saw posted a few days ago regarding these two items. </p><p><br /></p><p>For couples, friends or even a group going out together to enjoy a live event there&#039;s little else to compete with the value of memories you can share throughout your lives regarding that moment in time. Sure the coin will always be there with you and provide a lot of enjoyment while in your possession, but there&#039;s something more singular about acquiring the medal even though many people may appreciate it and take enjoyment from the piece. The singular moment in time spent together at a performance is much more precious in some ways. In future it can only be enjoyed in emotion recorded in memories. But the &#039;show must go on&#039; and does night after night, and Mamma Mia on the silver screen and on DVD in home theater, goes on infinitely. </p><p><br /></p><p>Broadway vs. the gold medal becomes a question of quality in my response.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>I voted for the gold medal</b> and I am someone who goes to live concerts in NYC and has paid significant ticket prices for performances at The Metropolitan Opera, NYC Ballet, NYC Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>Top venues don&#039;t only charge top dollar for limited seating, lush interiors, prestige and profit, but they often don&#039;t sell out all seats at full retail. This is especially true on Broadway, which is why you often find long lines at the TKTS discount booth the day of shows with tourists crowding the line for cheap remaining seats at overpriced performances. The City of New York even has tourism ad campaigns to drive tourist dollars at Broadway which continues to decline in quality and budget crisis. Discount tickets usually print the full retail value of the seats but not the actual amount charged to the customer. In this case it appears someone did fork over significant cash for this seat and in so doing helped to pay for all those discounted tickets that might be sold. But this being &#039;Broadway&#039; and not Lincoln Center I don&#039;t personally see the value in the quality of the piece produced (even if paying for discount seating) and performed to that of a particularly special, limited (rare) gold coin. The two are far from equivalent.</p><p><br /></p><p>The idea of &#039;up front in plush orchestra seats&#039; does not necessarily equal the finest seats in any concert house. Rather mid-floor orchestra seating and First Balcony (boxes) tend to be better not only in terms of seeing all action on stage but in acoustics, access to concessions, restrooms and in boxes, a private cloak room. For me,&nbsp; Broadway isn&#039;t theatre nor worth the price of the seats for a song and dance, especially blown out of a pop/disco tune. Broadway continues to undermine the quality of musicians as well as relies upon a cast of alternates to perform lead roles after the initial seasons or when someone is out since the show schedule is so demanding, night after night. Theatre goers may be disappointed missing a star in this event. Broadway&#039;s significant ticket costs also mean you are paying for the Unions assisting the production, rent, utilities and numerous other things, but the quality of &quot;Broadway&quot; is very, very low in my opinion to that of classical performance when discussing what you get for what you paid for in regards to the piece you are there to enjoy. Please, I hope, no one take this as &#039;snobbery&#039; between choices of music/performance.</p><p><br /></p><p>This poll is an issue of quality for me, hence the gold medal wins my heart over Broadway. The significant ticket prices of live performance isn&#039;t that different between Broadway and Opera/Ballet/Symphony, but the quality of what you are getting from Broadway to classical performance is leaps and bounds apart.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, this is a particularly beautiful medal you choose and on the surface a no brainer. Thanks for sharing. :thumb:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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