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| re: Have Any Others Here Been Posting on ATC Since 1997? Anyone Care to Mention the Year they Began Posting Here? | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 04:27 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 04:22 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Have Any Others Here Been Posting on ATC Since 1997? Anyone Care to Mention the Year they Began Posting Here? - BillEadie 11:43 am EDT 05/20/23 | |
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| I was pretty much anonymous for 11 years. However, in Oct., 2008 when I tried to buy a rush ticket for All My Sons at the Schoenfeld, I was confronted by the house manager who figured out that I was BroadwayTonyJ. Since then, the same thing has happened to me at least a dozen times at various Broadway and off-Broadway theaters. Usually it just results in a little chat. However, on at least 4 of those occasions I was taken into someone's office for a sit-down -- in June, 2014 (at the Belasco) two other ATC-ers and I were taken one at a time into the house manager's office, and in Jan., 2019 (at the Laura Pels) another ATC-er and I were taken together into the theatre manager's office. The first time it happened I was really taken aback. Nevertheless, by now after 15 years, I've gotten used to it so it's no longer a big deal. I think it comes with the territory when you're just an ordinary fan and you've lost your anonymity. The fact that I have done rush, standing room, and/or cancelation lines at least 600 times is probably a big factor in all of this. Theatre critics and writers in both Chicago and New York know who I am. A well known patron of the arts in New York (who is probably known to many here) is aware of my identity on this board. Even a staff member to my U.S. Congressman (she's a theatre buff who reads ATC) knows who I am. |
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| House manager took you to their office? | |
| Last Edit: dramedy 04:30 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
| Posted by: dramedy 04:29 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Have Any Others Here Been Posting on ATC Since 1997? Anyone Care to Mention the Year they Began Posting Here? - BroadwayTonyJ 04:22 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
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| To discuss what? You aren’t official reviewer. What right do they have to detain you much less stop you to buy a ticket and I assume post comments about the show. I would object to that and refuse to follow them to an office. | |
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| re: House manager took you to their office? | |
| Posted by: Sullivan 06:18 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
| In reply to: House manager took you to their office? - dramedy 04:29 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
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| I started watching the week of its inauguration. Can't remember the year. My 86 year old brain is blurry. I think Page was around at that time and of course, Mike. Bob Stempin | |
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| Rush Line Protocol | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 05:45 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 05:44 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
| In reply to: House manager took you to their office? - dramedy 04:29 pm EDT 05/20/23 | |
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| The house managers began chatting with me (initially) because I was a frequent poster on the (since removed) ATC Rush Board. The conversations (which were always polite and respectful, with me anyway), consisted of the "Do's and Don'ts" of how to post rush information about a given show, nothing more. There was only one time when I had to tell a house manager (politely) that I could not post the information on ATC that she requested. I explained why and she still sold me a ticket. 99.9% of the people in rush lines are honest and behave themselves. However, I have seen scam artists and trouble makers on occasion. I have also witnessed box office personnel refuse at least twice to sell a rush ticket to certain individuals -- once at the Winter Garden (for Rocky) to a guy who was a known scammer and more recently at the Lyceum (for A Strange Loop) to a young guy who was just too argumentative. |
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