| re: Is theater worth it from the rafters? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 12:48 am EST 02/29/24 | |
| In reply to: Is theater worth it from the rafters? - Zelgo 07:17 pm EST 02/27/24 | |
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| I've hard sort of the opposite experience. I started going to Broadway shows at 7. I started going by myself at 12. For decades, I only wanted to sit in the orchestra or front mezzanine. Actually, I thought it would be neat to sit in boxes, but after doing that twice, I realized it wasn't as neat as I'd thought it would be. From time to time, I would be in the balcony or rear mezzanine, and I generally didn't like it. I remember when I went to London in 1977, however, sometimes sitting in second balconies and not being too bothered by it. I chalked it up to the theatres being more intimate or better designed, but I think that neither was necessarily true. Still, in New York, I wanted orchestra, having by then decided that I preferred it to front mezzanine. I remember sitting in the last row of the Cort for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and feeling miles away. I went to TKTS during previews, and that's what I got, but that was unusual. But over the last 25 years or so, I have sat in the rear mezzanine and balcony a certain number of times via comps or TDF. Even though my eyesight is certainly not what it used to be, I generally haven't minded much. Of course, when it's comps, you can't really complain. But I got comps for an early preview of Cinderella at the Broadway. During previews, they closed off (litterally closed off with a curtain) the last 10 or 12 rows of the balcony. I was in the last row that they were selling at that point. I felt a million miles away, and I couldn't imagine how bad it must be in the real last rows of that theatre. Of course, when I started going to the theatre, the rear mezzanine and balcony were generally sold for what were bargain prices even then. Now they're generally pretty expensive. I'd hate to pay what is sometimes charged nowadays to sit in the last rows. Well, the last rows of the Music Box, the Booth and the Broadhurst are pretty OK, but obviously the last rows of many of the others are not so OK. |
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