Has anyone been to an NIU theatre production lately? Little Shop of Horrors is playing at the O’Conner Theatre in the Stevens Building.

It seemed like a nice little play to see. So my roommate and I prepared to go get tickets. The lines were surprisingly short and when we got up to the ticket window we understood why. Plays are five bucks – that’s very reasonable.

In parenthesis it has a different price for musicals – a whopping ten bucks for a musical at NIU. Don’t start responding to my letter yet theatre majors, but don’t you think it is a bit steep?

“Shear Madness,” a comedy play at Chicago’s Blackstone Hotel on Michigan Avenue is just $15. Twenty dollars for transportation and the play, sponsored by the Campus Activities Board, in all.

I’ve been to many NIU theatre productions in the past and I think the productions are worthwhile but 10 bucks for a musical?

One more thing, if you’ll bear with my ignorance, but why the $5 difference between a play and a musical?

Etta Vaughn

Jill Shook

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