SRO … When we went to New York City recently the show I really wanted to see - "Jersey Boys" - was sold out, so I figured I'd go to the TKTS booth and see what was available, cheap (… or I'd use the discount codes at Broadway Box and Theatermania, where the prices appear to be the same as those at the TKTS booth, without the wait).
But I had some extra time on Friday, so I stopped by the "Jersey Boys" theater to ask about tickets. Specifically, single tickets. The fellow at the box office seemed happy to help (unlike the grump at "The Lion King" box office a while back, who sold me obstructed seats and seemed to take pleasure in doing so; not a Disney "Have a magical day" cast member, I guess). Anything that weekend would work, I said - matinee, evening, whatever.
After poking around on his computer, he came up with a couple of singles for the Saturday matinee. Then he poked around a little more - and said he actually had two great seats together (not singles), for prime time: the Saturday evening performance. It turned out that they weren't just great seats, they were the perfect seats: the front row of the center mezzanine.
So ... I now had a pair of tickets for "Jersey Boys" for my husband and me. I headed for the "Wicked" box office. There was a line - groups of two, four, five - and it looked like they were all leaving empty-handed. But the box office person - again, a nice guy, very patient - found me two singles in the center orchestra for the Saturday matinee. My son and daughter went to that.
Both "Jersey Boys" and "Wicked" have long been in the "difficult" category in terms of getting tickets. The magic word appears to be "single."
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