The Frugal Bostonian

Bostix offers half-price-same-day theater tickets.  If you decide last-minute to see a show, check whether Bostix has any available tickets - you’ll save 50%.  Bostix is located in freestanding kiosks in copley and at fanueil hall.

Here’s how to make the deal even better:  for every $50 of Bostix gift certificates you buy, you’ll receive a coupon/card good for $25 at Flemings steak house.  The only catch seems to be that you can’t buy the gift certificates then use them to buy tickets (I got around this restriction by giving the gift certificates to a friend right after I bought them, and my friend then bought the show tickets).  Ideally, if you expect you will use Bostix to buy show tickets, get the gift certificate in advance and keep it in your wallet (it is a print out from ticketmaster that looks like a ticket).  Then, when you decide to see the show, you’ll have some free money for dinner in the form of the cards to the steak house.

Here’s how it works in action:  $100 cash buys two $50 bostix gift certificates.  $50 off dinner at Flemings is included for free.  $68 theater tickets cost $34 each.  So, $100 cash turned into two tickets to the theater (regularly priced at $68 each), $50 at Flemings, and $30 in leftover bostix gift certificates for another show. In other words, if we had just gone to the theater and got tickets at the door, it would have cost $136, not included anything at flemings, and not have included $30 toward a future show.