20 at 20 - HOW COOL
20 at 20 - HOW COOL
#120 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 2/27/07 at 9:46pm
GAWD I WISH I WAS IN NEW YORK THE WEEK OF MARCH 4 TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS! YOU BETTER ALL REAP THE BENEFITS! WHAT A SPLENDID PROJECT!
ANYONE PLANNING ON DOING THIS? 20 AT 20
For one week only, Off-Broadway will offer tickets for only $20 twenty minutes before show time. “20at20” will be an annual celebration of New York’s best shows, in the tradition of Restaurant Week.
Beginning Sunday, March 4th and continuing through Sunday, March 11th, Off-Broadway shows will offer seats still available twenty minutes before the curtain, for only $20 when purchased at the box office (cash only at some venues; some restrictions may apply).
"Here is your chance to catch up with shows you may have missed, get a sneak peek at the next hit, or revisit a favorite – all for only $20! And since Off-Broadway has performances to fit everyone’s schedule, you can see more than one: on Saturday for example, you can see Gazillion Bubble Show at 11 AM, The Fantasticks at 2PM, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at 4PM, Altar Boyz at 8PM, Stomp at 10:30 PM! Where else can you see five shows in a day, for less than the price of one Broadway ticket?!," state press notes.
Go to www.offbroadway.com for more information
The following shows are participating in "20at20":
25 Questions for a Jewish Mother
St. Luke's Theatre
A Jew Grows in Brooklyn
37 Arts
A Very Common Procedure
Lucille Lortel Theatre
Altar Boyz
New World Stages
The Awesome 80s Prom
Webster Hall
"BE" by Mayumana
Union Square Theatre
The Big Voice: God or Merman?
Actors Temple Theatre
Bill W. and Dr. Bob
New World Stages
Defender of the Faith
Irish Rep
The Fantasticks
Snapple Theater Center
The Fever
The New Group @ Theatre Row
The Gazillion Bubble Show
New World Stages
Gutenberg! the Musical!
Actors' Playhouse
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Westside Theatre Upstairs
Jewtopia
Westside Theatre Downstairs
The Last Word...
Theatre at St Clement's
Mary Rose
Vineyard Theatre
My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish, & I'm In Therapy
Little Shubert
My Secret Garden
45th St. Theater
Naked Boys Singing
New World Stages
Perfect Crime
Snapple Theater Center
Room Service
SoHo Playhouse
Sealed for Freshness
New World Stages
Some Men
2econd Stage Theatre
Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell
Minetta Lane Theatre
Stomp
Orpheum
The Voysey Inheritance
Atlantic Theatre
donna_darko_23
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#2re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 2/27/07 at 9:50pmthat is pretty cool!
#5re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 2/28/07 at 12:22amI already have my schedule for the week! I'm seeing 8 shows!
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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Posted: 2/28/07 at 12:27amI'm going to try to get people at work to switch shifts with me so I can see more shows...I'm so lame!
#7re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 2/28/07 at 2:15amthere are atleast three things on that list that look appealing to me for $20.
MissNY
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/05
#8re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 2/28/07 at 9:14am
"you can see Gazillion Bubble Show at 11 AM, The Fantasticks at 2PM, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at 4PM, Altar Boyz at 8PM, Stomp at 10:30 PM!"
No you can't because The Fantasticks is over 2 hours long...
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Posted: 3/3/07 at 2:57am
fyi I saw SPALDING GRAY: STORIES LEFT TO TELL tonight (not as part of this promotion of course, but I just mean that I saw it, and it's on this list, and so I'm talking about it here and so I'm bumping this thread :)) and it was *wonderful,* completely recommend it!
So- who is trying to get tix to what when this all starts on the 4th? :)
#10re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/3/07 at 3:10am
O good fortune! I am in New York this week! I'm definitely doing this.
~Steven
#11re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/3/07 at 3:16amI have plans to see 5 shows next weekend doing this 20 thing. Hope my plans work out!
#12re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/3/07 at 3:22am
How popular do you think this will be? Will they have to turn people away for certain shows? I mean, I guess that's the point of it...
~Steven
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Posted: 3/4/07 at 8:23pm
fyi the SOME MEN process for 20 at 20:
I got to the 2econd Stage box office at about 6:30pm tonight (show at 7pm), and there was already a sign up list for 20 at 20 tix. I was 6th or 7th on the list, the box office started selling the 20 at 20 tix *really* close to curtain, at about 6:58pm, and only the first 3 or 4 names on the list got to buy tix, so I did not get in. I'm totally trying again for Tue night, getting there a little earlier next time. :)
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Posted: 3/4/07 at 9:23pmI wish I was in NYC this week!!! I would of seen Stomp and the Fantasticks for sure. Too bad Forbidden Broadway isn't on the list.
#14re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/4/07 at 9:23pmI wish I was in NYC this week!!! I would of seen Stomp and the Fantasticks for sure. Too bad Forbidden Broadway isn't on the list.
#16re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/5/07 at 1:22am
Anyone else try this? Was it like what happened with Anakela?
~Steven
Jazzysuite82
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/6/05
#17re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/5/07 at 9:38amWell I know of people this has happened to at Some Men. But that's to be expected. It's a Terrrance McNally play. All of you talking about seing 3 and 5 shows this week had better plan very well. I'd look into how it's been selling in general. It might not be so easy to get in.
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Joined: 12/31/69
#18re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/5/07 at 9:54am
We went to the Sunday matinee of Altar Boyz at New World Stages, and while there were maybe 25 people ahead of us and 25 behind us, most turned out to be on line for either Bill W. and Dr. Bob or Sealed for Freshness.
So we ended up with row G on the aisle. How cool!
New World Stages let everyone there for 20 at 20 line up outside on 50th St. -- all shows together, back of the line towards 9th Ave. -- and then at maybe 2:45 they let the line in the right-most doors to go to the right-hand ticket window. The other two ticket windows carried on with their regular business.
#19re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/6/07 at 11:06pm
I got to see SOME MEN tonight! And, even better- there was a post-show talkback, which I *so* didn't know was happening until I saw the insert in my Playbill, so after the show I got to be part of a q&a slash discussion with Terrence McNally and Trip Cullman and... I am totally spastic and have forgotten the third man's name, but he's the artistic director of 2econd Stage.
So apparently there were more tix avail tonight than there were on Sunday night, as I got to the box office tonight at about 6:15pm (7pm curtain- but I was determined that I was going to get in tonight :)) to put my name on the sign in sheet, only to be told there wasn't going to be a signin sheet, there were pretty much no worries about getting tix and I should just come back at 6:40 and I'd be fine.
Came back at 6:40, there were about (15-20?) people in front of me in line, line moved pretty quickly- they actually had a pretty good system going where they were using one window for people picking up tickets, and the second window just for selling 20 at 20 tickets. Got a ticket for the first seat in the balcony at 2econd Stage (honestly- I had never even noticed that there was a balcony section at 2econd Stage before, but the seat was totally fine), and enjoyed the show.
Who else here is doing these this week, and what shows are you doing? I'm thinking of trying 25 QUESTIONS... tomorrow night, and then I'm trying to decide what I want to do on Fri/Sat/Sun- I seriously think I want to do STOMP and AWESOME 80S PROM and NAKED BOYS SINGING (I've alreday seen ALTAR BOYZ and SPALDING GREY, before this promotion), but I feel like I should be using this 20 at 20 price to be getting in some more 'serious' theatre going than going to see 80s PROM.
#20re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/6/07 at 11:11pmI'm going to try to see Spalding Gray Sunday evening using 20 at 20.
#21re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/8/07 at 5:49pmAnakela, and anybody else who is around from now until Sunday, see THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE if you haven't done so already. It's phenomenal. I'm going to Second Stage to do SOME MEN tonight.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#22re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/9/07 at 12:43am
cool, thanks for the tip! I will add it to my list... has anyone done SEALED FOR FRESHNESS yet? I'm curious as to how that one is.
Did you get in to SOME MEN?
#23re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/9/07 at 12:56amI got in. I arrived at 7:10 for the 8:00 performance. I was 13th in line, and there were about 30 people all together by 7:40. We all got in. But starting at about the 5th person on, they started giving us general admission tickets, which basically meant we had to wait until everyone was seated and then we were seated by the house manager wherever there were seats left (we all got seats) before the show started. I'll be writing a full review of the show tomorrow, but I'll say now -- see this while you can (especially for $20, by Sunday) -- because it is brilliant. Once the reviews come out, it's going to sell out the window.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#24re: 20 at 20 - HOW COOL
Posted: 3/9/07 at 1:19am
yay, glad you got in! I loved it too, in fact I was for a second considering seeing it again, but decided that would be too unfair to other 20 at 20 people.
They were doing that general ticket thing on Sunday too, for all four of the tix that they sold that night, where they were telling people "ok, you'll get *a* seat, but we just don't know where it's located yet, so for now just go upstairs and wait in the cafe."
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