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With the British recession really upon the area of London, may the city’s popular plays keep the show sales coming in? Over in New York, the musical shows are being hit with reduced musical ticket revenue as many folk are picking to stay in rather than head out into town. Tons of people, usually couples and families are staying in watching the latest blockbuster movies than going out to watch a musical show. The New York plays have responded swiftly by decreasing ticket prices to get people back, so far with interesting results. Infact, Shrek the Musical is selling a family musical ticket bundle of two grown ups paying entire price with up to 3 children attending for free. With the status of the Shrek blockbuster films, the reputation has furthermore forwarded to the Broadway adaptation.

Over in London, the musical ticket sales have also found a downturn. The UK recession has caused innumerable theatre shows to observe their profits even even more so. And with various musicals starring expensive stars, like Christian Slater and Kevin Spacey, the theatre show organisations require to recoup this outgoing. Thankfully for the capital city and of course the musical shows there are reduced price ticket booths that allow folk to purchase tickets for top theatre productions at a small fraction of the ticket face value. These popular ticket retailers have observed a boom in ticket revenue since the downturn and this allows the people of London and its excellent tourists to be able to actually afford to observe their preferred west end shows without spending too much cash.

As the downturn continues, we could find that a multitude of theatre productions might well look to offer similar ticket packages to that of Broadway with family show ticket bundles. Nevertheless, there are a group musicals that will stand the test of gloom and doom - musicals and plays like the Lion King and Billy Elliot have been around for numerous years and show no signs of poor tickets sales.