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New York is a fantastic city - as a visitor, there are many great things to see and experience. One popular activity is go to see a Broadway show. Broadway shows are popular with both tourists and locals alike. After living in New York City for awhile, you discover some tips and tricks that improve your Broadway experience, and save you money at the same time.

Shows are either classified as "Broadway" or "Off-Broadway". Broadway theaters hold a minimum of 500 people, while Off-Broadway shows hold a smaller number. Many shows that are now on Broadway start off as Off-Broadway shows, and grow into a Broadway theater as they become more popular. Shows on Broadway are usually better known (produced by big names like Disney), but that doesn't mean they're all good, or that they are better than all Off-Broadway shows. People have different tastes, and you're just as likely to have a great time with an Off-Broadway performance as with a Broadway performance. Since the theaters are smaller and the shows aren't as heavily advertised, Off-Broadway shows are often cheaper than ones on Broadway.

If you are trying to decide what show to see, it can be quite helpful to check out reviews for Broadway shows from other people who have seen the shows you're interested in.

If you have a bit of flexibility with what you see, you may want to hold off on your ticket purchase and acquire "day-of" or "next day" tickets. These tickets are often 50% off, and are often quite good seats. However, you aren't guaranteed to get tickets for a specific show, so if you absolutely must see a particular show, you might want to purchase tickets ahead of time.

There are some shows that always sell out (such as Wicked), and thus won't be available at a half-price vendor. Otherwise, most shows do show up at a half price vendor, although depending on the shows popularity, the show may not be available at the discounted rate every day. Be sure to visit the discount vendor booth at the South Street Seaport - it starts selling tickets earlier, and has a shorter line than other locations.

http://ratebroadway.com - Ratings and reviews for broadway shows (direct from the audience)
http://myworldreviews.com/reviews/TKTS_Discount_Booth-518.html - Information about the TKTS discount ticket booths in New York City

Why Not Try Out New Design Concepts For Posters?

Traditional poster printing and design can slowly get boring. Especially for most small businesses that are stuck with poster templates to cut costs, the designs and the very concept of poster printing can be dull.

Why don’t you try out new design concepts for your own business posters from time to time? You will be able to look unique and even very special to your audience if you do. Let me give you five simple but new design concepts that might just be the thing to make your commercial posters special.

• Contrasting – Contrasting is a simple concept of opposites. The most obvious example of this is a Black and white design. Since black is the direct opposite of white, all the differences are highlighted and there are clearly defined areas and forms. You can apply this to color posters by using one color with some lighting variations as the background and then putting in an object with the opposite or distinct color on the foreground.

Imagine a blue background with hot orange lettering in front and you get the idea. Playing with color opposites and contrasting them enhances the features of both colors. It makes for a good design concept that only some artistic posters use.

• Highlighting – Highlighting is a simple concept that is effective but most people rarely use. This involves using special imaging tools to lighten up certain areas of the color poster design while darkening the others. This gives a subtle guide to people’s eyes on where to look. It is almost like a spotlight towards a central poster object. Use this with a central product in mind. People will get the message faster.

• Typographical art – Sometimes, posters can make do with just letters. Yes! With all the artistic fonts available free on the internet, you can actually use bare text to get a nicely designed poster. This typographical art scheme is not new, but it still works today in a lot of cases. So if you are bored with taking photographs, why not use a play of letters and words and see what nice simple designs you can have.

• “Shapeology” – This concept basically uses different versions of a single shape as its central theme. Usually that shape is very important to the poster’s message. So for example, if your poster is a about a cycle or a circle of something, then multiple renditions of circles and curves can be the background of this kind of poster design. It is a simple concept that can easily be designed by novices.

• Gallery - Finally, we have the gallery concept. This means using lots and lots of images in the poster as the background while just highlighting some that are the most important. This can be a great way to highlight several aspects of your message through multiple pictures. Movie and “Broadway” posters can use this concept quite effectively to show appealing scenes from their material. However, as long as you need to show a lot of things to your readers, a gallery concept can be quite the perfect choice.

Great! Hopefully you can use these concepts in your new poster printing designs. Just test them out and see.

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Does anyone know some cute ways to decorate a stage for a Legally Blonde dance recital?

My dance studio is doing a legally blonde broadway show for our dance recital. I'm stumped on how to decorate. I want it too look pink and girly but i just need some good ideas. All the costumes are pink, zebra print, polka dot and feathers everywhere! HELP!!!!

Make some huge ribbons and flowers with pink tissue paper and hang them on the backdrop. If you're able to get your hands on a couple of shop dummies, dress them in pink, blond wig etc and place one on either side of the back of the stage. Try and get your hands on some hot pink feather boas and string them about the place! godd luck!

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