Age question

[Heybeenfood]

Age question#0

Posted: 6/24/06 at 9:46pm

My friend's daughter wants to go to see a show on Bway by herself. She is 13 years old and is very mature. Would the theater permit it?

[BroadwayGirl107]

re: Age question#1

Posted: 6/24/06 at 9:50pm

I don't see why not. When I was fourteen, I saw shows by myself.

[Heybeenfood]

re: Age question#2

Posted: 6/24/06 at 9:56pm

I just want to be sure because she does not want to spend a lot of money and then have her daughter kicked out.

[Heybeenfood]

re: Age question#3

Posted: 6/24/06 at 9:56pm

I just want to be sure because she does not want to spend a lot of money and then have her daughter kicked out.

[chinkie azn jai]

re: Age question#4

Posted: 6/24/06 at 10:04pm

Yeah, I was 14 when I started seeing shows by myself in NY.

"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D

[GirlforTartaglia]

re: Age question#5

Posted: 6/24/06 at 10:16pm

Geez, I'm almost seventeen and just two weeks ago did I see my first show without my parents in the building. I won lotto to Avenue Q once when I was fifteen while my parents sat in the mezzanine and I sat front row- that was almost independently - and I saw RENT with my friend by ourselves when we were 15. But totally alone, almost 17. But I doubt they'd kick you out - I mean, you already paid- unless you're being bratty and immature, then they're allowed to do that...but I doubt that'll be the case :)

And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps... What did she realize, Kitten? That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs. What's wrong with that? Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had... Where? On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.

[WickedGeek28]

re: Age question#6

Posted: 6/24/06 at 10:23pm

As long as you're older than 4, they let you in.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[Katurian2]

re: Age question#7

Posted: 6/24/06 at 10:26pm

Nope- it's just fine. Unless the theatre has posted a special notice. Maybe if it is an "adult" show, they would ask some questions.

"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck

[coolphantom919]

re: Age question#8

Posted: 6/24/06 at 10:30pm

Shows to think twice on are CHICAGO, RENT, SWEENEY TODD, Avenue Q!

[Just_John]

re: Age question#9

Posted: 6/24/06 at 10:31pm

I saw those four shows alone when I was 13or 14 and I am far from mature. But I do behave in theatres.

[Taryn]

re: Age question#10

Posted: 6/24/06 at 10:31pm

When in doubt, call the theatre.

[respeck]

re: Age question#11

Posted: 6/24/06 at 10:32pm

It's not an R rated movie. She's fine.

[BroadwayGirl107]

re: Age question#12

Posted: 6/24/06 at 10:32pm

Well, I was going to add that if the show itself have some sort of warning ("Appropriate for ages 13 and older" or something similar), call and ask if you have any doubts. Otherwise, there really shouldn't be a problem at all.

[little_sally]

re: Age question#13

Posted: 6/24/06 at 10:47pm

GirlForTartaglia, what show did you see?

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

re: Age question#14

Posted: 6/24/06 at 10:56pm

Yea. It would. As long as the show doesn't have and age thing like Avenue Q. I saw Spamalot by myself and I'm 14.

[Heybeenfood]

re: Age question#15

Posted: 6/24/06 at 11:15pm

the show in question is Awake and Sing! and tomorrow is the last show

[myManCape]

re: Age question#16

Posted: 6/24/06 at 11:32pm

Its fine. I sat next to a group of kids at Dracula. And that was a 13+ show

"Have they come yet?"

[LeaGirl]

re: Age question#17

Posted: 6/25/06 at 2:13am

I was 11 the first time my mother handed me a ticket outside a broadway theater and sent me in by myself, with strict instructions where to stand after the show. I don't see any problem with it.

Now what would you say if today I started over? Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover And I'll pretend like everything is already alright And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight

[ashley0139]

re: Age question#18

Posted: 6/25/06 at 9:54am

How would they even know that she was alone? It would be fine.

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[Phantomerik15]

re: Age question#19

Posted: 6/25/06 at 10:30am

I see numerous shows myself and I'm only 14. They let you in as long as you have a ticket.

Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat... (The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)

[Mikey3]

re: Age question#20

Posted: 6/25/06 at 10:47am

My nephew is just 7 years old. He has seen Hairspray,The Wedding Singer,Wicked,The Producers,Mamma Mia.....it was no problem for let him get into the theater..ya~as long as you have a ticket.

But some musicals like Chicago, RENT, Avenue Q,maybe there will be problems..but anyway you can call theater and ask about that!!

[EponineAmneris]

re: Age question#21

Posted: 6/25/06 at 11:29am

Some theatres have rules about age because of the show itself and/or other things. It may be best to call ahead to the theatre, bring the child in person and personaly introduce the child to an usher who will know that they are there on their own and can 'keep an eye open.'

Just a thought

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

[ShuQ]

re: Age question#22

Posted: 6/25/06 at 11:43am

Don't call, don't ask, don't worry...they'll let him in.

[ljay889]

re: Age question#23

Posted: 6/25/06 at 11:52am

Your 7 year old nephew saw all those shows by himself???

[Mikey3]

re: Age question#24

Posted: 6/29/06 at 7:52am

Of course not by himself...He always goes to shows with me or his parents.