MyFavoriteBrunette said: "mbusani14 said: "If you are waiting in line for a matinee (let's say Saturday for example) and you don't get tickets...are you automatically in line for the evening show or are they two separate lines?
Typically, yes. You continue to wait for Sat evening but if someone comes And claims first spot for Sat evening before matinee tickets are distributed, not interested in matinee at all, then one mu
As Lin said in his Penn state speech, "Every story you choose to tell, by necessity, omits others from the larger narrative. One could write five totally different musicals from Hamilton’s eventful, singular American life, without ever overlapping incidents. For every detail I chose to dramatize, there are ten I left out." This is exactly what you just did when telling the version on the Friday the 13 line sitter story. Here are at least 10 things you didn't mention, and likely didn't know......
1. #1 in line was not from SOLD, #2 in line left mid day on Thurs, and #3 in line was SOLD, who we hired, and arrived at 3am on Thursday (for the Friday show) before the rules were posted. Box office told him that day that they were fine because they were there before the policy was in place.
2. The two line sitters who were there looked after 3 single girls in line all night and were two of the kindest people I have ever met. Employees at the car lot across the street charge phones for them and seem to like their presence by the theatre. Both guys were very helpful to people who asked questions about what usually happens. They were tucked in a corner by the gates to the garage, not making the theatre look like a homeless shelter at all.
3. At 8am none of the awful fans were there but somehow starting around 10:30 they arrived and felt like they had some right to tickets, despite every post on here suggesting to get there way earlier than that.
4. At some point during the morning 4 premium tickets were sold and people were closer in line.
5. The rude line standers were were chatting up the line sitters, only to use all of that information against them at the first chance they got. Definitely not the line friendliness others have experienced.
6. When I arrived, it was seriously riot like (My husband had already been there for a couple hours witnessing this). Fans started screaming at me and shouting for the box office that I wasn't in the line (my line sitter had been there for 36 hours at this point, with us bringing him food on a semi regular basis so he didn't have to leave the line). Like a fool, I tried to explain things to people who were unwilling to listen to anything...."in NY people pay for line sitters for lots of things, this isn't just a Hamilton thing", "our line sitter was here before the rules." "yes, we had been here before any of them got there."......each comment I made was thrown back at me with an unintelligent comment (whoever mentioned survivor later in this post is spot on). At this point grey shirt yells, "This woman's son died of cancer and you think you deserve a ticket more than her." My reply was, "that is terrible but we all have stories as to why we should get a ticket." and not in a rude voice at all. So to answer her...."yes I have lost a child and I would never use that as a card for anything." Grief for her son's death is horrible but it really has nothing to do with where you are in a cancellation line. She did buy a premium ticket and I hope it was all she hoped for!
7. When things escalated, box office came out and told the entire line that they knew the order and line sitters in front were fine. More escalation occurred at that point, with rude fans shoving phones in their faces and screaming at them. Grey shirt guy was especially rude. Lawyer lady started shouting that she would get in touch with people and get them fired for not enforcing the rules.....it was truly more like the worst white trash event you can imagine than a theatre event.
8. Box office employees said they had never experienced ruder theater fans (lucky for those fans they were professional enough not to throw them out of the line--which I do feel should be rule #1, "Box office has a right to remove any rude line waiters." . Line sitters who had done this 40+times said the same thing. We were assured they knew what they were doing and pleasant patrons were not going to be punished because those further back in line were trying to throw them under the bus.
9. Line sitters (sold and other guy plus the two companies that were there for Sat shows) were mortified that all of this was going on and SOLD was in touch with us (others from the company came to see what was going on). They were completely professional the entire time. Never once, did they accuse the theatre of anything, or engage in any of the line screaming. Classy guys in my mind.
10. When the line was trying to get our guy thrown out, we asked why he couldn't buy one ticket and we take the other. Had I thought of it, I would have offered it to the guy who was #1 in line since his client hadn't arrived yet. Box office said that would work great. 90 minutes before the show, our SOLD guy was called into the box office and bought two tickets. We were told by the "bouncer" guys (who remember had been telling the line earlier that day that our guy had been there before the rules were in place) that what they didn't see wouldn't hurt us or them.
11. We both went to the show and enjoyed the front row seats so no you were totally wrong when you said they threw us out. I would have been happy to have sat with our SOLD line sitter if that was what would have needed to happen but was much happier that it worked out like planned. He was far classier than many of the people in this line!
Everyone has a reason they want to see the show and a method for doing it. The lottery is a way for anyone (with any amount of money) who wins to be able to see the show. This line is not. If you have money to pay a line sitter do it. If you have time/ability to sit there for 30 hours do it. It is sad that this chat has turned to a smack down. Let's use our energy for good in the world and all worry about ourselves and what we each can do to make it a better place. The theatre is an amazing place to find yourself, connect, and enjoy! None of this hate/rudeness fits here. In my 25 years of theatre I have never experienced anything like this. I'm all for theatre being accessible to all (Love this show even more because of what it is doing for our NYC teens) but if these are the "fans" it brings out, it's not a plus.
. Line sitters who had done this 40+times said the same thing. We were assured they knew what they were doing and pleasant patrons were not going to be punished because those further back in line were trying to throw them under the bus. 
