Avenue Q / In The Heights Lottery ?

[Felm_heart]

Posted: 2/5/09 at 10:15pm

Okay I hate to ask so many questions, but you are collectively a wonderful resource.

My friend and I will be in the city on February 14th. I want to try at the lottery of both In The Heights and Avenue Q for the evening performance of both. I want to confirm that both of them let you put your name in from 5:30-6:00 and then they draw names at 6? Also, can you request two tickets? Especially in the case of Avenue Q, I am wondering how likely it is that I'll win the lottery and also if it is true that they'll sell discount tickets to the losers. I just want to make sure that I see one of these shows on that night. Can I be pretty sure that, whether through lottery or through buying discount tickets as a loser, that I'll see one of these shows?

I used the search function but I just couldn't find answers for all of the questions I had. Thank you so much!

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 2/5/09 at 10:20pm

Don't get your hopes up fro either lottery, especially In The Heights but you can definitely get in for Avenue Q for pretty cheap.

[CyCoSpAz2]

Posted: 2/5/09 at 10:21pm

Avenue Q sells cheap tickets after the lottery during the week, but I don't think they do it on the weekends (at least in my lottery experiences)

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 2/5/09 at 10:25pm

I only can help you with Avenue Q.

Daily drawings will be held at 6pm for 8pm shows, 12 Noon for the Saturday matinees; 12:30pm for the Sunday matinees; and at 5:30pm for the 7pm shows.

Avenue Q isn't doing all that well so you may have a good chance at the lotto. And yes, you can circle on the lotto ticket if you want 1 or two tickets. If you go to the box office if you lose, I don't believe they will sell you discount seats. But, you can go to TKTS and more than likely be able to get discount tickets..Usually Avenue Q is on the TKTS list for 50% off.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 2/6/09 at 12:51am

You personally cannot try both lotteries as you have to be present to win. The only way you could have both covered is for you to try one and your friend to try the other. The disadvantage besides only having one name in is that each of you have to have the $$ for both tickets in cash. Also, you'd better be quick on the texts if one of you wins so the other can decline if s/he is pulled ~ or just be on the cell phone with each other but quiet unless you win. (I have seen people meet up after doing two separate lotteries to find out that both won but assumed the other didn't, so they were trying to unload one set and not always having much luck.)

In terms of post-lottery discounts, Avenue Q has offered them every time I've tried that lottery (and lost...remember there are ONLY 12 seats there). If they're really "not doing all that well" it makes no sense for them to suddenly stop offering those discounts.

[Anakela]

Posted: 2/6/09 at 12:56am

Considering the fact that Feb 14th eve is both a Saturday night, and the night before Lin's last, I don't know that I would count on Heights offering up post-lotto discounted tix that night?
But who knows, maybe they will.

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 2/16/09 at 11:50am

I don't know what happened to you on the 14th...but I was at the Avenue Q lotto yesterday for the matinee...and it was very, very crowded.