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Posted by:	Chazwaza 04:57 pm EDT 03/13/14
In reply to:	re: The last great musical to open on Broadway - Billhaven 04:41 pm EDT 03/13/14

Good seats vs bad seats can have such an enormous, unfortunate impact on how a show plays and comes off. I hated Next to Normal because I had a horrible seat (I liked it a lot more now). I loved Ragtime and I had perfect seats each time. I loved Billy Elliot with a great seat, and had a more difficult time than I might have with Matilda sitting in the mid-Mezz. I sat in the rear mezz for Venus in Fur and found myself removed from it and analyzing everything. I had an absolutely perfect close-up seat for Journey's End and it became one of the most effecting theater experiences of my life... other friends had further back seats and they found it boring and poorly lit. Some shows require you to be up close, some benefit from seeing everything at once, some need something in between. Most shows and their productions are best viewed from the front of the center orchestra in the center... a little distance to take it all in, but still quite close. Or from the very front of the Mezz, center. If you're not there for any given show, your experience can be quite different depending on what seat you have.

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