{"id":64651,"date":"2015-11-13T04:51:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T10:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=64651"},"modified":"2015-11-13T04:51:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T10:51:35","slug":"the-lion-king-box-office-on-broadway-now-will-bow-to-a-lottery-offering-30-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/13\/the-lion-king-box-office-on-broadway-now-will-bow-to-a-lottery-offering-30-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Lion King\u2019 box office on Broadway now will bow to a lottery, offering $30 tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_64652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64652\" style=\"width: 698px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Lion-King.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64652\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Lion-King.png\" alt=\"(Photo from The Lion King's website)\" width=\"698\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Lion-King.png 698w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/The-Lion-King-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionking.com\/worldwide\/united-states\" target=\"_blank\">The Lion King&#8217;s website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2013 The Broadway king has finally jumped into the lottery game.<\/p>\n<p>Disney\u2019s mega-hit \u201cThe Lion King\u201d said Thursday it will start an online lottery for $30 tickets next week, joining a trend that has been adopted by most shows on the Great White Way.<\/p>\n<p>Disney has always been sensitive to high prices and has avoided other discount policies due to a fear of scalpers. Officials have made a conscious attempt to keep even the best seats in the house under $200.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new lottery, entries for a \u201climited\u201d number of a pair of tickets will be accepted starting the day before a performance. Winners will have an hour to pay, and tickets will be given 30 minutes before the show. Seats will vary by performance.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Online: <a href=\"https:\/\/lottery.broadwaydirect.com\/show\/the-lion-king\/\">https:\/\/lottery.broadwaydirect.com\/show\/the-lion-king\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 The Broadway king has finally jumped into the lottery game. Disney\u2019s mega-hit \u201cThe Lion King\u201d said Thursday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":64652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-64651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-original","mauthors-mark-kennedy","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}