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334  TR A VELERS ’ NEEDS
ENTERTAINMENT

IN NEW YORK CITY

New York City is a non-stop entertainment in a loft. If it’s music, there’s the magnificence
extravaganza, every day, all year round. of opera at the Met or a jazz group
Whatever your taste, you can be sure the improvizing in a club in the Village. You can
city will satisfy it on both a grand and an catch a spectacle of avant-garde dance in a
intimate scale. The challenge is to take café or try your own avant-garde dancing in
advantage of as many of the events on offer one of the city’s warehouse-sized clubs.
as possible. If it’s theater, you can enjoy a Movie theaters abound. But perhaps best
mainstream success on Broadway or take of all is wandering and watching the vast
a chance on an experimental production show that is New York City.

Discount Tickets
on all the films; and ClubFone
has up-to-date information Established in 1973, the non-
on nightlife. profit TKTS company sells
un sold tickets on the day of
(or the day before) the perfor-
Booking Tickets mance for all Broadway shows.
Popular shows may be sold Booths are located around the
TKTS discount ticket booth out for weeks ahead, so book city and discounts range from
early. Tickets can be bought 25 to 50 per cent. The price
Practical Information from the theater box office in will include a small handling
Find out what events there person, by telephone, or online. fee and must be paid for in
are to choose from in the Box offices are open daily, cash or by traveler’s check.
arts and leisure listings of except Sundays, from 10am Down load the TKTS app or
The New York Times and the until one hour after the head to the website to see
Village Voice newspapers and performance begins. Theater what’s available.
in Time Out New York, New York, websites will usually have a TKTS’ flagship booth can be
and The New Yorker magazines. seating plan to help you choose found in Times Square (at Duffy
Listings are updated on the your ticket. Tickets are also Square under the red steps). It
websites of these magazines, available from agencies such as sells matinée tickets from 10am
such as www.nymag.com Telecharge and Ticketmaster. to 2pm every Wednesday and
and www.timeout.com/ Both charge a small fee for Satur day, and from 11am to
newyork. At your hotel ask for bookings. An independent 3pm on Sundays; evening
Where, a free weekly magazine ticket agent may also be able to tickets are sold from 3 to 8pm
with maps and information on find seats for you – numerous (from 2pm on Tuesdays). Lines
the many attractions. services, including many are often shorter at the booth
Hotel staff may be able Broadway-focused ones, are at the corner of Front and John
to answer some of your listed online, as well as in the streets. Evening tickets are sold
questions and should also Yellow Pages. Fees usually vary from 11am to 6pm daily and
carry a wide selection of according to demand. matinée tickets are sold the
brochures and leaflets. day before (the booth is
In addition, they may closed in winter). There
be willing to reserve is also a TKTS booth in
tickets for you. Some downtown Brooklyn (at
hotel TVs have a 1 MetroTech Center, at
New York visitor the corner of Jay Street
information channel. and Myrtle Avenue). This
At NYC & Company, booth sells tickets for
touch-screen kiosks same-day evening and
provide information next-day matinee perfor-
and sell tickets to the mances, every Tuesday
city’s top attractions. to Saturday from 11am
Multi lingual counselors, to 6pm.
discount coupons, free You can purchase
maps, brochures, tour day-of-performance
information, and ATMs tickets from Ticketmaster
are available. Moviefone at discounts of 10 to 25
gives online information A band playing at a cozy New York jazz club per cent (with a small

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