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The Great Gatsby rush, lottery & cheap tickets
Every legitimate cheap-seat tactic for The Great Gatsby on Broadway — with the realistic odds, prices, and the small print. No paywalled "premium tier" nonsense; just the public-facing routes ranked.
The Great Gatsby is a 150-minute musical at the 1,761-seat Broadway Theatre. It opened in 2024 and is in its open run. Multiple cheap-seat routes are in play: an official lottery, an in-person rush, and TKTS booth eligibility.
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$45 Rush.Telecharge.com lottery
2 tickets per winner
- Platform
- Rush.Telecharge.com
- Price
- $45 per ticket
- Entry window
- Opens 12:00 AM the day before each performance; closes 3:00 PM the day before.
- Draw / notification
- Drawings at 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM the day before each performance.
- Quantity limit
- Up to 2 per winner
Photo ID required at pickup.
Enter the The Great Gatsby lottery →$40 box-office rush
Up to 2 per buyer
- Format
- In-person at the box office
- Price
- $40 per ticket
- Opens
- 10:00 AM (Tuesday–Saturday), 12:00 PM (Sunday)
- How to enter
- Show up at the Broadway Theatre box office (1681 Broadway) when it opens — first-come, first-served, subject to availability.
- Quantity limit
- Up to 2 per buyer
Same-day rush availability varies; not a daily guarantee. The lottery is the more reliable cheap-seat play.
Get directions to the box office →Same-day discounts at TKTS
Typically 20–50% off face value
The Great Gatsby has appeared at the TKTS booth (Times Square, Lincoln Center and the Lower Manhattan locations) — same-day discounts of roughly 20–50% off face value. Appearance and discount level vary day-to-day; shorter-running shows and weekday performances are the better bets.
See today's TKTS list →The realistic playbook
- Enter the lottery first. Lowest price, zero effort. Set a daily reminder; the entry windows are unforgiving.
- Line up early for rush on a non-lottery day. Weekday performances are the friendliest.
- TKTS is the fallback. Same-day, in-person — head to the Times Square booth around 3 PM for evening shows.
- If all else fails, compare the resale market on the main The Great Gatsby page — sometimes resale dips below face for less-popular performances.