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Looks like Djo might be playing a festival in Madrid before Joe goes to Broadway?

This reddit thread has a great guide to ways to score discount tickets via various methods--rush, lotteries, memberships to things like TDF (Theater Development Fund) etc.

So check it out!

Tickets for a Wednesday matinee look to range between $88.48 and $470.40 while a Wednesday evening show ranges from $99.68 to $582.40. Obviously it's cheaper to sit in the back of the balcony than it is the pit. Although this isn't like a concert--you don't want to be right up front in the first row, those are the worse seats. Your neck is gonna be cranked back all night, and you won't be able to see the whole stage due to the height of the stage. The middle sections are usually the best seats.

Whereas it looks like a Saturday show has the same price range for matinee or evening: $110.88 to $582.40.

Prices can fluctuate, like around the holidays and stuff, but this just gives you an idea if you are trying to decide.

Also if you are planning to go during previews, for the first week there is no Wednesday matinee, only a Saturday matinee. And there is only a matinee on Sundays (no evening show) for most of the run except for the two Sundays after Christmas, when an evening show is added.

And like all Broadway shows, there are no performances on Mondays. And obviously no performances at all on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, and New Years Day.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus will make her Broadway debut this fall, alongside the Broadway veterans Ed Harris, Allison Janney and Lily Rabe, in a revival of the family drama “Other Desert Cities.” Joe Keery (“Stranger Things”) will also make his Broadway debut in the production.

The play, written by Jon Robin Baitz and set in Palm Springs, Calif., is about a Christmas gathering rocked by a daughter’s plan to write a memoir that explores a family trauma. John Benjamin Hickey will direct the revival, which is planned for a 16-week run at the Hudson Theater; previews will start on Sept. 29 and opening night is set for Oct. 18.

The play was staged Off Broadway in early 2011 at Lincoln Center Theater, and then transferred to Broadway later that year. The critic Ben Brantley, reviewing the Broadway production for The New York Times, praised the show, saying, “all family reunions should be this satisfying,” and describing it as “built with gleaming dialogue, tantalizing hints of a dangerous mystery and a structural care that brings to mind the heyday of Lillian Hellman.”

People have been saying this shows he's being greedy. That he shouldn't take money to do a sponsored show, etc.

The thing is, as Joe's music gets more popular, his costs to fund his music career are increasing. Even though he's said he's been mindful with the money he spends on recording, something like The Crux costs way more to record than his other albums just because of the way it was recorded. It's way more expensive to rent out studio time at Electric Lady(probably like $1000-$2000 a day just to rent the space) than it was for Joe to record music in his bedroom and send it off to Adam to mix at his own home. And it's not like he's selling millions of albums. Wikipedia says that as of last July, The Crux had sold….8,000 pure album sales (you holding a physical copy in your hands) and 79,000 equivalent sales (number of streams converted to one album sale.) Now I'm sure it's gone up since then due to more people discovering him, but he's not selling millions. He might just be clearing the costs to record the record at that point.

This is not a normal, tickets on sale to the general public concert, so you really can’t compare it the other shows Joe is doing or has done in the past. This is basically one step away from a private event. This wasn’t Joe looking at his calendar and saying “Hey I’ve got this Friday in June open, let me put on a show for the folks.” Chase hired him to put on a concert for their card holders specifically. It is a perk they provide multiple times a year to their card holders. I get that it would suck that it’s inaccessible to a chunk of fans but the man played concerts for an entire year in the US that seemed pretty accessible. And no artist’s shows will ever be 100% accessible to all fans who want to go. I’ve been a fan of Taylor Swift for years, never gotten to see her in concert. Heck, *this* concert, I qualified for tickets as a Chase card holder. Still wasn’t able to get them.

The same day announcement for ticket sales is something Chase does for all of these shows. That’s not Joe trying to screw fans over. Again, it’s not designed to be an on sale to the general public show.

The meet and greet tickets are something Chase offers to make their high level card holders feel special. All of the concerts Chase puts on offer something like that even if the artists does not do those on their normal tours. Chase sets all that up and again, it’s not Joe trying to screw fans over because he only likes people with an 800+ credit score.

I’ve seen so many videos of Joe coming out to say hi after shows to fans and he just flew to Japan to do a meet and greet for free with fans. Like, he tries to meet people which I’m pretty impressed by because I wouldn’t want to meet fans and I say that as someone who has paid for artist meet and greets before.

Are there issues with the ticket industry as a whole? Sure! Ticketmaster/LiveNation needs to be broken up. It’s a monopoly and it holds both artists and fans hostage. Scalpers need to have limits set on what they can charge but unfortunately some states (like Illinois) have ticket broker laws in place to protect them.

Are Joe’s VIPs for his regular concerts too expensive? Probably. But fans have made it clear they prioritize getting on the barricade (could never be me, my old ass needs a seat to sit in please and thank you) and so they are gonna charge you for that early access to get on the floor. Other than fans collectively deciding not to buy them, I don’t know what the answer is to that one.

Sad this means that the rumor about Joe going to Broadway is not true.