Sarah Brightman -- Concert in The Hague

Originally her concert was scheduled for 19 April 1999 in the Circustheater in Scheveningen (at the beach of The Hague). On 18 April I went to the Circustheater to see if I could perhaps get a leaflet, poster or something about the concert. But alas, no: nothing.
And what's more: they told me that the concert was cancelled at the last moment, and that it was shifted to 22 May and to the Netherlands Congress Centre.

I had no plans to go to the 19 April concert and below follows why. But I did go to the 22 May concert.

Why I chose not to go the 19 April concert

The cheapest seats are Dfl. 85.- (that is 38.57 euro or about US$ 45), which is acceptable. But it would give me a seat 24 rows (some 15 metres, I suppose) away from the stage: much too far for me to see what is happening on the stage, certainly too far to say any faces (my eyes are unfortunately not so good). And I do want to see something! Just hearing the music is not enough for me: I can do that at home.

Closer to the stage, at row 5 or so, the seats are in principle also not too expensive. But for this spesific concert you would have to pay Dfl. 225.- (102.10 euro, about US$ 120), which includes a dinner. The "profit" of these seats would be for a charity organisation called "Day by Day", which does work for the prevention of and fight against leukaemia.
I do not mind giving money to charity, but I like to choose that myself. Besides that, I would not have had enough time on 19 April for a dinner because of a conference I had to attend.

All in all, I decided not to buy a ticket for the 19 April concert.
I am a big Sarah fan, but Dfl. 225.- is too much money. It's not that I don't want to spend any money or so, but just not that much on a concert.
And 24 rows away from the stage is too much distance for me.
I'm just not much of a concert-goer, really.

Instead, I spent money on several CDs and books.
I bought the CD of Phantom of the Opera with the original London Cast, i.e. with Sarah(!) and Michael Crawford. And I bought the CD Voice of an Angel from the wonderful Charlotte Church, plus The Chieftains' latest CD Tears of Stone (on which among others Loreena McKennitt joins the band).

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