If you always wanted to see “The Price is Right” in person, your chances just got a little easier.
The legendary game show is taking its act on the road for the first time with a 50-stop nationwide tour.
That’s right, the production is going to pack up its huge Plinko board and even the giant spinning wheel from its Los Angeles studio and roll it across the country.
The “Come On Down Tour” will begin on Friday, March 25, at the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles, California, and then travel to various cities including Denver, CO, Dallas, TX, New Orleans, LA, Nashville, TN, St. Louis, MO, New York, NY, and more.
“It’s kind of an exciting way for us to take something that’s really an important part of CBS' legacy and do something new and fresh with it,” said Mike Benson, president and chief marketing officer at CBS, in a press release. “We really wanted people to feel like they could come on down and play the game that they all really know.”
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The tactical production switch from studio to mobile sounds inventive and fun. As ABC News reported, there will be a customized trailer that can fold up the games for easy unpacking. The show's famous spinning wheel is part of the truck, but other game parts will pull out of the large vehicle, along with contestant podiums.
Another twist will be that the show will try to incorporate local products and specialties into the usual guess-the-price games. So maybe we’ll see some BBQ places down south get some airtime. Though there’ll probably not be any pierogi price guessing up in host Drew Carey’s hometown of Cleveland, OH, which is also one of the stops on the tour.
Carey, who has hosted for 15 years and will helm the first stop of the tour, referenced why the game show has remained so popular and been able to shift with the times. Simply put, prices and product preferences change all the time, which offers the show a consistent updating.
“I think that’s the great thing about the show,” said Carey. “It’s able to, within a framework, evolve. There’s a lot of old houses where you remodeled the kitchen and remodeled the living room, and it’s still the same house.”
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"The Price is Right" has done many live stage show versions before, but not a traveling version like this. There’ll be a grand prize of $50,000 at each stop. To attend one of the stops on the tour, all guests must show proof of vaccination.
Fans can keep up with the tour by checking out the show's official Instagram account.
It’s all in celebration of the show’s official 50th season. "The Price is Right" actually debuted in 1956 in a different format. That show was canceled in 1965, but revived in its current format in 1972 when iconic host Bob Barker began his long run.
As ABC News detailed, since the 1972 reboot, producers say over $300 million in cash and prizes has been given away; more than two million audience members have attended a taping; and 68,000 of them have become contestants.
Here’s hoping that little yodeling moutain climber makes the tour trip too.