Hugh Jackman Offered Tickets to His Own Show

Having worked in New York for the last fifteen years, I can totally believe that this probably really happened...especially since I once saw a guy in Times Square try to sell a bootleg VHS copy of Titanic to Victor Garber (who was, of course, in Titanic) back when that was still in theaters.  See, scalpers may have lots of popular stuff available to sell, but that doesn't mean they always know what it is.  

While plugging his one-man show Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway during the PBS show Theater Talk, Hugh Jackman and host Michael Riedel discussed the scarcity of tickets to the show's limited run.  This I can also believe, since when I recently tried (and succeeded!) to get a standing room ticket to the show, I watched the guy in front of me at the box office casually shell out $351 apiece for six tickets, two of which weren't even located together, because was that was all they had left.

So obviously this show has been a cash cow for scalpers and ticket brokers.  And apparently, even Hugh hasn't been able to avoid them either:

That's pretty funny.  If you missed Theater Talk - and keep in mind, even in the NY area this thing airs at 1:30 in the morning, so everyone missed Theater Talk - you can watch the whole show here.  There's some good stuff at the end about the upcoming Les Miserables movie, which is set to start shooting in March. 

Hugh Jackman's one-man show ends its Broadway run on Sunday.  And if you'd like to see it, you better go find that scalper, because even those $351 tickets at the box office are gone by now.