Don't care for the AFL Grand Final? Watch a musical instead. There are $20 tickets available for the 2pm show on Sat 30 Sep plus an $8.75 handling fee per transaction.
If you do care for the footy, there are $40 tickets available for other shows this week up until 4 Oct.
EDIT: $20 tickets have now sold out. $40 tickets are still available though.
But no +vote.
strange.
These are selling out in Sydney for $200+ a ticket WTF?
Cheaper to fly there.
not while the football is on!
Once Book of Mormon has played in Sydney for 8+ months it will have cheap seats like this too
Not many people know this but major elements of the Mormon religion are named after famous pirate stories of old times.
Joseph Smith was a well known pirate fan, Moroni is also the capital of the Comoros islands the site of one of his favourite pirate stories.
Many people know this but your claim is questionable at best.
Two names out of hundreds (one a person, one a place) in the Book of Mormon happen to share (or are similar to) names of locations which are tangentially related to a pirate.
Now, it is up to you to prove causation.
While I'm reluctant to give it more oxygen Here's a discussion of the claim.
https://wheatandtares.org/2017/05/27/the-telephone-game-evol…
Two names out of hundreds (one a person, one a place) in the Book of Mormon happen to share (or are similar to) names of locations which are tangentially related to a pirate.
THe article doesnt disagree with my claim at all, in fact its just a longer form of what i summarised and whole more unrelated stuff about pirates.
Now, it is up to you to prove causation.
I just did mentioned 2 names, thats pretty big odds of all the names of all the places and people.
While I'm reluctant to give it more oxygen Here's a discussion of the claim.
Oh well not much point me saying more is there ?
"THe article doesnt disagree with my claim at all, i"
You claimed that "major elements of the Mormon religion are named after famous pirate stories of old times." the article says that those claims are rubbish.
the article says that those claims are rubbish.
And im stating the opposite and i have the two names that you mention. Pirate stories were popular in the old days, Robinson crusoe was an extremely popular story a long time ago, and other sources state that JS also liked these sorts of things.
So whats the more likely explanation ?
God really spoke to JS or he copied the name from books he may have read ?
I'm surprised there's still Mormons around!! LMAO.
There are* ;)
Realistically it is shrinking. Although I think they still count all the people to have left and not officially renounced, so as to claim decent membership numbers. I'm probably still included, as are a lot of my family, and haven't been near a mormon church for 20 years. And numbers will hold up pretty well because you're heavily encouraged to have a minimum of 5 kids, plenty have much more than that. But I'd hazard a guess that the outflows are greater than the inflows, when you remove people born into it.
Even 20 years ago it was becoming get rare to see brand new adult members becoming "converted" and joining the church. Just about all of the Australian (adult) growth in numbers was from Pacific Islanders, who were already mormon, emigrating to Australia.
Gone are the days when you had nothing but a convincing argument from a persuasive person to base your judgement on. Nowadays when the Mormons go out telling their message, you can easily do your own research into the facts. Basically the internet is responsible for the decline. Even digging up the church's own, less public, material is pretty damning.
Like all religions, once you stray from basing your belief on nothing (faith), you'll end up on shaky ground.
Some of it is pretty funny to look back on, like the "Book of Abraham". Now that we can translate ancient Egyptian reasonably reliably it makes for hilarious reading.
"you're heavily encouraged to have a minimum of 5 kids"
That's a load of rubbish.
"But I'd hazard a guess that the outflows are greater than the inflows, when you remove people born into it."
And yet locally in recent years I've seen vastly more new members, than members leaving.
"Even 20 years ago it was becoming get rare to see brand new adult members becoming "converted" and joining the church. "
And yet locally, there have been more adult baptisms in the past few years than there have been children.
Thanks for the correction, Tuhan. It's rare I make such an oversight!
I was under the impression that, as we become more educated and stop requiring someone else to take the blame for things we understand, more and more people leave religion as it struggles to keep up with modern society and less and less rational people join.
The complete nonsense that the religious spew when challenged sounds like it'd be believable about 1,000 years ago but not today.
Weakest arguments ever for something that has absolutely zero proof.
Anyway, what little I know of the book of Mormon is hilarious at best and I can only assume that those who follow, do so for a laugh.
Oh, let's all gather around and make fun of the religious. Sounds like a riot.
You and Nero would have been great mates.
Hilarious.
Want to try aiming that mockery at other religions, or just the 'turn the other cheek' ones?
You have to admit, religion in general is pretty funny.
The book of Mormon is another level though.. it was only a matter of time before this musical was born!
Everytime you ask a question that brings God and his terrible attitude into question, the answer is "He works in mysterious ways". Damn right they're mysterious!
Imagine I used that excuse when I decided genocide was ok or when I wanted to persecute people!!
Anyway, I mean no ill will, I just hope that people like that wake up and read actual non-fiction books one day.
Saw this the other week in NYC, would recommend. I've spoken to a friend though, he seems to think some of its cut out for Australian audiences… anyone seen both?
I saw it in NYC years ago and I believe it's the same and Melb a few months ago. if there was anything cut out I didn't notice. I have the CD and listened to it a few times and there is a few words different here and there, but I wouldn't say it is different at all
I've seen it in london and here, no differences afaik
What's with this $8.75 handling fee?
Seems to be at movie theatres as well….is it just me or is this a bit ridiculous? Surely there is a valid reason but when you buy an electronic ticket why do we get charged this?
Wouldn't it just be their cut of the sale and the $20 would go to the production?
it's movie theatres too. Never used to be this way
Either way why not just include it as the price. I would hate to go the way of the U.S. and be told a price then have to work out what it all really costs by adding the tax and tips on top of that. It is much simpler to just have one price
$8.75 for the privilege of taking your money, and you still have to print your own ticket. It's highway robbery.
Retail have cash registers. Do we pay a separate fee for companies to use them?
Completely stupid argument.
Do you gas station add cost on top of petrol price, because they need to store it and pay the staff?
Plain and simple, this is just a dishonest practice, helped by supporters like you.
Rubbish. Petrol stations, shopping retailers etc. are no different. Only instead they hide the fees in the shelf price (no transperency)
these things should just be included in the price, everyone knows that businesses have overheads
So where's the acting fee, lighting fee, tax fee, cleaning fee…?
Supermarkets, gas stations etc. incorporate their expenses into the products their selling. That $2.50 for a bottle of Coke doesn't all go to Coca Cola company.
Ticketmaster's only job is to sell tickets. The $20 goes the people producing "The Book of Mormon" and the $8.95 fee goes to Ticketmaster so they can continue to man retail stores, provide an online facility to buy tickets etc. etc.
Would you rather Ticketmaster sell tickets for $28.95 and hide their costs in price of the ticket?
Sydney Opera House. Service fee for print at home tickets $6.50 (I think). Fee for pickup at box office is nil. Wtf?
I get your point, however is there any other way to buy these tickets? If you buy it at the door do you waive the fee? If so fair enough.
What I don't understand is why do Hoyts and others charge this fee when it is all in-house?
That $2.50 for a bottle of Coke doesn't all go to Coca Cola company.
So then if supermarkets followed suit they would have on the docket the cost of the Coca Cola and the selling fee…..hmmmm actually not a bad idea!!
They already make a profit from the ticket sale. Do you really think the entire ticket price goes to the company they are selling the ticket for? In regards to airlines do you really think the cost of the ticket goes entirely to the cost of the flight and they only make money from the booking fee? It's just a stupid excuse to double dip. What about the technology and software used in self service registers. They are constantly evolving and getting more advanced but do we get charged a fee for that? These machines also require a lot of maintenance etc Of course the costs are built into the price of product. Only difference is that they aren't double dipping. I'd actually be happier if they just hid the booking fee back into the price of the ticket. Every time I see booking fee, I swear my blood pressure rises.
From my experience in the industry: The handling fee is the only money that the Ticketing company makes and sometimes even some of that goes to the production as part of their cut. It's generally kept seperate at the preference of the production, the Ticketing company would prohably prefer to hide it. Self service checkouts actually save retailers millions as they don't need to hire more staff so that's probably not a great example.
@Godlike: believe it or not the savings may be negligible. The costs to set up are astronomical and theft is costing billions. Mostly it saves all the headaches associated with staff and deals with the issue of increasing wages. Supposedly there was also a big social media appeal with bringing this technology into the shops. I was informed by someone in the industry that service times via self check out were actually slower than staffed express checkout counters, however psychologically it felt faster. The stores havent even reduced staff by that much, but it has allowed them to move staff to other sections of the stores.
ok so someone is down-voting all these comments. Why not just contribute to the argument so we can learn or benefit from it
I wish this comes to Brisbane, it won't though.
The big ones usually come to Brisbane following Melbourne and Sydney.
if it does, im deff gonna go
so wrong on many levels - but funniest show in a long while
Saw it a few months ago, courtesy of a friend with a spare ticket.
Guess I'll be taking the missus out tomorrow. I know she's been super keen on it, so thanks a bunch dude.
Has adiga eebowai!
Hilarious and very very crude.
If you're at all sensitive about respecting religion, foul language etc then you'll struggle through this. Not me, as someone who grew up a Mormon (but is no longer), I loved it. All the theology is pretty much bang on.
Must see.
Wow, thanks for the share! there seems to be 50 or so seats left for those interested. not too fussed about the grand final :)
I read the title and thought it was something Game of Thrones related (Mormont)
I'd pay to see that!
Two hours of the hound and olena calling the lord of light a c bomb, while ser jorah has greyscale on his scrotum!
Great deal! Wrong city for me unfortunately
Anyone know of any deals going for Sydney? I read online about a ticket lottery for $40 tickets in Melb, will we get that in Syd too?
The run is probably finishing which is why. I regularly see shows in the last few weeks. Prices are significantly cut. I can't justify $150+ for a 2 hour show.
Thanks!
Great price. Hopefully I'll be able to make use of such a great offer!
Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is Stark.
So excited, then took a look at seats available- either nose bleed seats or single seats if near the front.
Thanks for the find! Seems like only a few $20 ones left
$20 is a steal. Its a great show.
So the 40$ tickets are right at the back in row P? Is that actually much of a deal? How much are those normally?
$50, so not a great discount. Show is definitely worth seeing though.
Has anyone managed to get the page to load? I select 2 tickets but it doesn't load either the map or tickets on a mobile device.
$20's are gone, only 1x$50 and 1x$80 at the far back left.
thanks
The whole theatre is discounted! 'Premium Seats' which are usually $258 are now $140, and most other seats are $70-$90 when they are usually, $140+.
So overall, it's a great deal to go on that day.
Sunday afternoon show is the same, grabbed some row K seats for $96, row J is $170, row h is $280. Not many $71 tickets left so I figured I'd shell out the extra $25.
Thanks for the post OP, grabbed three tickets at the back left for $20!
I was lucky enough to catch it in New York a few years ago - 100% would recommend if you get the chance.
Do it! It's awesome!
Great, even available for the Friday show
Saw it when it first came out, funniest show I've been to (except for Billy Connolly). Will be easy to spot the OzB section, all the folks that have sneaked their own drinks and food in!! ;)
Me an hour ago: No Caitlyn, we don't need to sneak shit in, it was 20 bucks, just buy a damn drink.
Missus: did they check bags when you went?
Great musical. Saw it in NYC in 2012. As a bonus we won cheap tickets in the daily lottery. Highly recommended!
For those that don't know it is written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone - creators of South Park.
No $40 tickets left for Oct 3rd or 4th.
i went there a few weeks ago.. it was amazing @ 150 each