Samson
Event Information
Venue(s):
Academy of Music
Manager / Director:
Maurice Grau
Price: $2 reserved parquet and balcony; $1; $.50 family circle; $10 private box of four seats
Event Type:
Play With Music
Record Information
Status:
Published
Last Updated:
11 April 2025
Performance Date(s) and Time(s)
17 Dec 1873, EveningPerformers and/or Works Performed
Citations
“Deception in the Price of Tickets.
To the Editors of the Evening Post:
In the morning papers appears the advertisement of an entertainment to be given at the Academy of Music to-morrow evening. The prices of tickets are given as follows: “Admission, $1; reserved seats, $1 extra. For sale at the Academy and 114 Broadway.” On inquiring at 114 Broadway I am informed that there is an extra charge of twenty-five cents per ticket. On referring them to the advertisement they state that it is without their authority.
For the four tickets that I wish to buy and could have bought this morning at the Academy but for this advertisement, the difference is $1.
Is it not high time that these petty extortions should cease, and that theatrical managers should no longer impose upon the public by false advertisements? C. E. M.
New York, December 16, 1873.”