Discounts for seniors?

I know CP has a discount for seniors, but do they allow any other discounts off of this price. My parents would like to go to see the shows, but they are both in their 70s, and would be going only for the shows and to walk around. $30 just seems alot of money to walk around a park for a few hours.

The shows alone are worth the price of a senior admission, in my opinion.

If you're going primarily for shows, you might want to look into and pay attention to which days the shows occur. I believe the entire cast, in most shows if not all, are all given the same day off and hence, 1 day a week, that show doesn't happen. Also, these shows don't all last as long as the Cedar Point season. At quick glance, it looks like alot of them end on Aug 19th. My parents are near 70. I think they would get a kick out of enjoying the park, simply to see how much it's changed since the last time the went. (In their case, about 20yrs)

Jeff said:
The shows alone are worth the price of a senior admission, in my opinion.

Usually they are pretty good, but I was disappointed in the Rock the Point show up by Raptor. It's a rock and roll show that hit many many famous songs and bands. Yet they played ZERO Beatles songs. Even tho they had a picture of Sgt. Pepper's album cover and a Hofner bass replica, they did not do a single song by The Beatles. And "Imagine" doesn't count because that was John Lennon solo and "Rock and Roll Music" doesn't count because the Beatles covered that song. It's actually Chuck Berry.

Ok that was my rant, if you could not already tell, I am a huge Beatles fan

That's because you probably can't license the music. The Beatles are funny like that.

I don't even want to think about how much it must have cost Matthew Weiner and company just to license Tomorrow Never Knows in this past season of Mad Men.

$250,000.00

Big is correct. Most pop songs cost $100K or less.

The still living Beatles and the deceased's heirs are very picky about licensing their music. An article I read said that this is the first time in five years they've licensed a song for use.

Great point you guys. It was probably for the best, I thought they butchered the Elvis songs in that show, no offense to the performers. They were great doing the Journey and Boston songs tho

I was at Cedar Point 2 weeks ago on a Friday with my daughter who is too young for the big coasters, but too old for the kiddie rides. We wanted to see some shows and planned our day around the show times. We saw Rockin' the Point; Summer Daze; Happiness is Snoopy and All Wheels Extreme and loved every one of them. We missed the show at the Red Garter Saloon because the place was packed. If your parents do nothing but see shows all day, it would be worth the ticket price.

I was always confused with how/why the licensing works that way. My understanding was that live performances were exempt from having to pay royalties/licensing rights, but perhaps CP falls into some special category.

I don't know the specifics, but no, live performance requires licensing. They also play a blanket fee for the midway music (used to be ASCAP and BMI back in the day), which is what radio has to do as well.

So are all these run of the mill cover bands that play bars and festivals violating the licensing rules? I've known a few people in such bands, and they've never paid a dime in royalties to anyone. Or is that a different situation than the live performances at CP? IP laws in general usually leave me scratching my head, so I guess I don't get it.

They probably don't pay because they are not getting paid to perform the song. I know some bar might give the door to the band but I doubt that is the same as thousands of people paying to enter the park to see the music performed. Or something like that.

That makes sense. Some searching on Google has revealed it's typically the venue's job to pay any royalties associated with live performances. That said, the concept still rubs me the wrong way and seems far too overreaching, as are most things done by the recording industry.

Small-scale cover bands typically operate outside the law, and should be paying some royalties (or the venue/bar should). They're just not big enough on any radar screen for anyone to care or audit them. I've played hundreds of live covers over the years, and the issue has never come up. I doubt that CP enjoys my guppy status, though.