“But expected complimentary tickets to opening night fell through, so the Millcreek Democrat quickly looked online for tickets from resellers. “It cost me $400 for two tickets,” he complains. Top face value for a ticket from the box office was $85. . . “It occurred to me that the taxpayers of Utah put up a little money for that theater and other theaters [plus sports arenas] in Utah,” Hemingway said. ”It doesn’t seem fair to me that people are allowed to go buy up those tickets, and then sell them back at a huge [profit] margin and keep people from going to the theater.”

http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2017/08/11/after-being-gouged-utah-lawmaker-seeks-to-limit-ticket-scalping-markups/