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re: what changed ?

Posted by:	sirpupnyc 03:05 pm EST 11/21/14
In reply to:	re: what changed ? - Guillaume 01:33 pm EST 11/21/14

The lottery seemed like a good idea in theory--at least in that it expanded the availability beyond those who were free to go sit in line for a chunk of the day and the aged--but the implementation worked against it, I think. The old weekend lottery had a waiting list, since it was drawing on Tuesday for purchase Wednesday for Friday and Saturday's performances. So if a winner didn't buy, someone else got in. The new system, since it was all same-day, didn't have that and if a winner didn't buy the tickets reverted to regular full-price tickets. I think they were seeing more of that than they expected, people entering who decided not to go, or couldn't. If the lottery seats are some of the less desirable ones that are harder to move at full price on average nights, they were probably ending up with empty seats and losing the donation that subsidized the lottery price.

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