Are they trying to break the bank? $100+ for recital tickets!

Re: Are they trying to break the bank? $100+ for recital tickets!

• Halo79RN member

  March 2010

  that's so stupid.  I can see charging a fee to guests.. but the child???  dd's gymnastics tried the same thing... $110 for dd to register and the outfit... then it's something like $12 a person for tickets????  we're not doing it.  she's 4.  and she is shy .  not gonna torture her.

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• kellilea

  March 2010

  WTF?!  You have to buy her a ticket to dance in her own recital plus a recital fee?  I'd be having myself a good little hissy fit...the whole thing is beyond absurd.

   

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• Hooray2005 member

  March 2010

  I'm still stuck back on having to pay anything to attend your DD's recital, much less hundreds of dollars (and seriously, having to buy DD a ticket is ridiculous!)

  I'm now having a "back in my day, when I was in ballet..." old-person moment ("We didn't have to buy tickets!  The recital was supposed to be a fun time for families to see what their child has learned, not to make money!  Yada Yada!"

  UGH! 
  

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• WhiteOrchid.

  March 2010

  kellilea:

  WTF?!  You have to buy her a ticket to dance in her own recital plus a recital fee?  I'd be having myself a good little hissy fit...the whole thing is beyond absurd.

   

   

  I agree. I took ballet for 15 years, and I never had to pay a recital fee or to get into the recital. I  feel taken advantage of. I feel like they're charging as much as they can get away with. I'm so glad that we'll be done with this soon.
  

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• AnneUCSB member

  March 2010

  That is CRAZY, especially that you have to buy a ticket for her!  Won't she be performing and not even sitting in the audience?  Why on earth do you have to buy her a ticket!?!?  Insanity.

  
  Ryan 5/2010, Kyle 1/2007, Eric 3/2005

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• JOEBunny member

  March 2010

  Wow!  DD's whole dance class, including recital is only $56 for 8 classes (she goes all year, but it has been $8 per time except this last session where you have to pay up front.)  The $8 per time has been great because we end up missing about every 3rd class, since someone is sick or we have something else we have to do.
  

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• AggieCouple member

  March 2010

  It is friggin' highway robbery.  We have to pay monthly fees, despite the fact that sometimes, the teacher doesn't come or is late, and they have a HIGH SCHOOLER as a stand-in (admittedly, she is on her way to becoming a professional dancer, but still).  We had a choice of not letting her be in the recital, but yeah, like we were going to break her heart that way, so we had to pay recital and costume fee, and yes tickets for everyone.  So get this, we are REQUIRED to buy 6 tickets minimum, so they can be sure to "encourage a large, supportive audience."  Whatever.  

  The monthly fee is actually quite reasonable, and it is a professional ballet center, so that, to me, is worth it.  I can do without the recital cost, though. $160 for a costume she's going to be wearing for 5 minutes, max.  HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

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• elm1032004

  March 2010

  My DD is in dance, and we did have to buy her costume for the recital.  They wear the same one for the ballet and tap portion (it makes it easier for little kids to not have to get changed).  We will have to buy tickets as well, not for DD but for ourselves and family that want to attend.  It's not assigned seating so if we don't get them together it's not a big deal.   The tickets are also really inexpensive.  If it was going to costs hundreds of dollars for the show I'd be bent. 

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