Broadway, Next Week: Shows or Lockouts?

Considering the article regarding excessive prices for Mel Brook's newest Broadway, what good are those prices if Broadway experiences a lockout next week with their stagehands? Ah, unions, almost impossible to (not) do work with them!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/theater/26labo.html?ref=arts

---Traci (Unzicker) Mans