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Broke-Ass Contest: Win a Pair of Broadway Tickets and a $100 gift certificate to an Italian Dinner!

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Broke-asses, do I have your attention?

Season of Savings will give two of you lucky bastards each a pair of tickets to Superior Donuts, the new Broadway play from the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of August: Osage County.  Described by the playwright Tracy Letts as “a love letter to Chicago,” Superior Donuts is about the unlikely friendship of an ex-hippie donut shop owner and his intelligent and brash young African-American employee.  To sweeten the give-away deal, Season of Savings has also included two $100 gift certificates to family style Italian restaurant Tony’s DiNapoli.

Basically, Season of Savings is a discounts book and website for numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, parking garages, hotels and other New York City attractions.  They offer discounts such as $52 ticket coupons to FELA!, $55 ticket coupons to HAIR, and $45 ticket coupons to In The Heights, among other steep discounts of up to 55% off of The 39 Steps, Burn the Floor, Bye Bye Birdie, Chicago, Finian’s Rainbow, Mamma Mia!, Mary Poppins, Next to Normal, The Phantom of the Opera, Rock of Ages, Shrek the Musical, South Pacific, Superior Donuts, and Wishful Drinking.  The timing of discounts for the shows ranges from August 30 '“ December 20.  Check out all the details on www.SeasonofSavings.com.  Download the book HERE to take advantage of their deals.  We all know regular Broadway tickets are completely out of our budget, but these deals make the prices palatable, and your patronage keeps the New York institution of arts and Broadway Theater alive!

Broke-Ass Stuart’s two pairs of Superior Donuts tickets to give away are for Wednesday Oct. 7 at 8pmFor a chance to win, make a comment to this article about a desperate, stupid, or creative thing you have done to get free tickets/entry to a show or event, and make sure you include your Name and Email Address in the spaces where prompted so we know how to contact you. You have one week to do this.  At the end of the week '“ next Sunday, September 13th '“ we will put the names of everyone who commented in a hat and randomly draw out two names who will each win a pair of tickets and $100 dinner gift certificate!  Our friend Katherine from Season of Savings will then mail the tickets and gift certificates directly to the winners.  Good Luck!!

We will add the email address of all who enter to Broke-Ass Stuart’s email list unless explicitly asked not to.

If you are interested in hearing about additional great deals, join the email list on Season of Saving‘s website.

Here are some photos of Superior Donuts:

Photos via Season of Savings and BroadwayWorld.com

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Danielle was raised by a pack of coyotes in the Los Angeles hills. Since arriving in NY in 2001, she has had any number of strange jobs, including back-up singing for JELVIS (the Jewish Elvis), starting the non-profit LYDIA, and writing political cabarets. A huge advocate for travel as a way of life, you can find her at the Brooklyn Public Library when her bank account is empty, fantasizing about where to head off to next.