The Price is Right Live!

The Price is Right LIVE! is a staged production show based on the television game show The Price is Right.

Origin[]

On September 25, 2003 a live stage version of The Price is Right debuted at Harrah's Reno in Reno, NV. Since then, The live stage version is held at Caesars Entertainment casinos as well as the Foxwoods Resort & Casino in Connecticut and the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek in Florida. The show also briefly ran at two Atlantic City casinos in 2005, 2006, 2011, and 2012. Additionally, the show ran at the Welk Resort in Branson, Missouri in 2012. They are all produced in association with FremantleMedia (now Fremantle).

Gameplay[]

In some cases, audience members for each show are asked a series of pricing questions, in some venues, this involves the use of an audience response keypads, in others, a pricing game is played at registration prior to the show. The top scores in both accuracy and speed are called as contestants for the one-bid. In still other cases (such as the current Las Vegas and Atlantic City productions and the Branson show) contestants are chosen through random drawing unlike the TV version, an entirely new set of contestants are chosen to bid on each one-bid item and participate in the Showcase Showdown and the Showcase. While "Contestants not appearing on stage" receive a T-Shirt.

A contestant who bids exactly correct on a one-bid receives $100 in credits for a "TPIR" slot machine in the given casino.

Typically, the pricing games and the showcases are played for lower stakes and smaller prizes than its TV counterpart. However, like the television show, contestant do not have to pay an admission fee to play.

Pricing Games[]

Only a small selection of the show's pricing games have been replicated for the live show including:

One Wrong Price (In some shows, the host will invoke the Monty Hall-like problem: remove one of the correctly priced prizes {other than the one the contestant selected}, then offer the contestant any of the three prizes to keep and end the game, should the player turn down this offer, the game's normal all-or-nothing rules apply)

(NOTE: Starred (*) games are the current ones being used in the touring live show).

Showcase Showdown[]

Three contestants are called down to play, using a scaled-down version of the Big Wheel used on television. Getting $1.00 in one spin awards $100, in the bonus spin, getting a green section awards $500 while the dollar is worth $1,000. The winning contestant (under normal Showcase Showdown rules) receives $250.

NOTE: The wheel used in the casino show was used during a July 22, 2008 late taping of the CBS version (originally aired October 2) when the normal big wheel was repainted following host Drew Carey's complaints about it's purple color scheme.

Showcase[]

Two contestants are called down to play. Both contestants are shown a single showcase and must (in writing) bid on it. The person closer to the actual retail price of the showcase (bids are checked to ensure no duplicates) wins a pre-determined prize from the showcase. The contestant must be within $100 of the actual retail price of the showcase, including a car. (the only time a car is given away on the live stage version).

Current touring versions of The Price is Right Live! now use a modified Ten Chances pricing game dubbed as Ten Chances - Showcase Edition. In this version, four prizes are used, using normal Ten Chances rules with two modifications.

1.) More than one incorrect number can be placed in the numbers to choose from. The contestant, however, is still told how many numbers make up the price.

2.) No more than three chances can be used for any one prize (except the final prize) allowing for at least one chance at the last prize, which is a car normally in the $14,000 range.

Hosts[]

The Las Vegas production features a series of multiple hosts. A new set of shows began in October 2009 at Foxwoods, hosted by (the late) Alan Thicke. Other rotating hosts includes:

Todd Newton
Marc Summers
George Hamilton
Doug Davidson (who has previously hosted the 1994-95 syndicated nighttime version before it)
Bob Goen
JD Roberto
Roger Lodge
Mark L. Walberg
Michael Burger
Chuck Woolery
Marco Antonio Regil (who has previously hosted its Mexican counterpart Atínale al Precio {Succeeds the Price} from 1997 until 2000 and again in 2010 on Televisa)
Drew Lachey
Jerry Springer
David Ruprecht
Joey Fatone

In addition, Fatone was the host of the shows that took place in Atlantic City in the winter and spring of 2011. Jerry Springer hosted in Harrah's Atlantic City in October 2012, just before Hurricane Sandy would hit the east coast. The current touring show uses Springer to host the show along with Marco Antonio Regil and David Ruprecht sharing the announcing duties. Starting in 2013, announcer George Gray (during his non-televised taping weeks from the current Carey era of the show) also alternates as a live stage show host.

Newton, Summers, Regil, Davidson and Hamilton were contenders to replace Bob Barker, a job that ultimately went to Drew Carey in 2007. As previously mentioned, Davidson was also the host of a short-lived syndicated Nighttime spin-off better known as The (New) Price is Right which ran for four months in 1994. Regil (who is bilingual) was host of the Mexican version of TPIR under the name Atínale al Precio (Succeeds the Price) which aired on Canal de las Estrellas (a.k.a. Televisa) from 1997 until 2000 and again in 2010, including the current UK Bob Warman-styled Showcase format originally debuting in April 2010. Roberto has also been a sub-announcer for the CBS daytime version in 2010 (episode taped originally in August 2010 to start the show's 39th season).

Announcers[]

Various announcers for The Price is Right Live! stage show include Randy West (who was the regular announcer for the Las Vegas version for several years) Daniel Rosen, David Ruprecht, JD Roberto, and countless others. In addition, West has also been a substitute announcer for selected episodes of the CBS version in both daytime and primetime, and both he and Rosen were announcer search candidates from 2003-2004. Andy Taylor, formerly of radio station KTTS in Springfield, MO is the announcer for The Brandon Show. Chinese-Canadian television presenter Benny Yau was co-announcer with Howard Blank for the show's Canadian debut in Vancouver, Canada in May 2011, where the show was done in English, Catonese and Mandarin languages.

NOTE: One of the hosts/announcers for The Price is Right LIVE! David Ruprecht (famously once hosted the Lifetime/PAX game show Supermarket Sweep) appeared as an audience member on an actual episode of The Price is Right during the Bob Barker era that aired on October 9, 2003.

Trivia[]

The revamp cue under the name "Lottery!" was originally heard on the short-lived game show called The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour hosted by Gene Rayburn and Jon Bauman airing on NBC from 1983 until 1984 and can be heard on the show itself. Additionally, this could also be heard on local station WNEW-TV/WHDH-TV in Boston during the late 1980s and early 1990s as well as several local Illinois game shows. The theme was also used once on the British version of the show called The New Price is Right (not to be confused with the American version of the same name) hosted by Bob Warman for the Sky network from 1989 until 1990.

Videos[]

The Price is Right Live - Promo

TPIR Live Promo with FremantleMedia Header

Related Versions[]

Links[]

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