If you've ever wanted to be on "The Price Is Right," Tuesday night is the night for you to "come on down"!

"We can't wait to have people 'come on down,' spin the big wheel and play the games that they've come to love over the course of so many years on TV," says Todd Newton, who hosts the stage version of "The Price is Right."

The stage show, which will be held at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts, has the familiar look and feel of the long-running TV show -- the big doors, contestant's row and even the big wheel.

The success of the TV show was the inspiration for creating a live stage version.

"We decided about a decade ago that people should be able to play their favorite pricing games and should be able to win great prizes and large chunks of cash without having to fly all the way out to Hollywood to stand in line and hopefully get on the TV show," says Newton.

Keeping things moving along with Newton is announcer Randy West, who has announced several episodes of the TV show -- mostly in between the tenures of the late Rod Roddy and Rich Fields.

To get on the TV show, potential contestants must stand in line for hours on end, sitting on metal benches outside CBS Television City.

To get on the stage version, there's no standing in line and no pre-show interviews by the producers -- you simply pay for your ticket (tickets available here), register to be a contestant between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m., and your name is put in a lottery and is drawn at random.

A word of caution -- pricing games are played for much lower stakes and smaller prizes on the stage version as compared to what you see on TV.

For example, if you get to play Plinko on stage, the most you could win would be $2500 -- while that's a nice chunk of change that would more than offset the price of admission, it's considerably less than the $50,000 you could win on TV.

Besides Plinko, pricing games on the stage show include Any Number, Cliff Hangers, Clock Game, Hole In One, Punch-A-Bunch and Race Game.

On TV, Any Number and Hole in One are played for cars; on stage, they're not.

A car is offered on the show as part of the showcase -- in order to win it, you need to be the winner and come within $100 of the actual retail price of the showcase.

The show starts Tuesday night at 7:30 at the Times-Union Center -- great seats are still available, starting at $32.