Playhouse in the Park’s pre-season sale ends today. That’s the sale which allows us to buy half-price tickets to the opening week of productions (except “Dracula”), with tickets as little as $20.

Playhouse attendance numbers were down last year; like just about every performing arts company across the U.S. Playhouse was whacked by the economy, and it’s 2006-2007 line-up, with a steep drop in attendance of eight percent.

Truth be told, no one was expecting to match the numbers of one year earlier, when the schedule included “Company,” “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” and an extended run of “Love, Janis” – but nobody expected last season’s “Reckless” to completely tank, either.

Playhouse is packed with presumable hits for the coming year including season opener “Dracula,” closer “Ella” (is in jazz legend Fitzgerald) and Pulitzer Prize winner “Doubt” and off-Broadway hit “Altar Boyz” in between. 

Jackie Demaline

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