***BEWARE** Scalpers taking over Jersey Boys rush!!!!

Just wanting to send out a notice of what happened today.

My best friend, everyone's favorite mistrees, and I attended jersey Boys today, arriving more than early for the rush line. Not too long after, we were joined by a young spanish girl who curled up behind us and fell asleep, only to be joined by two friends HOURS later.. they only spoke spanish to one another in the line and they always were sending one of them to run errands. Nothing was said to them about this due to the fact that during the preliminary ticket count, they each said they were getting 1 per person, and that cuased the line to work out to a PERFECT 12.

However, when they did the final count, the decided that they wanted a total of FOUR... not that big of a deal, though it did cause the last pair in the line to get one rush ticket and one standing room. There was a BIT of a fuss in the line around these girls and their behavior while in the box office. The people who recieved seats located with them were not happy about it.

The killer..........

Before the show, the girls did not show up, but a group of tourists!!!!!!!! By asking a few fast questions it was quickly learned that the girls took the four seats, valued at $26.25 each and turned them over to the Comfort Inn in Midtown. The Comfort Inn sold them to their guests at a value of $250 each!!!!!!!

In ANY situation, I find a resale of that type to be sleezy.. in fact, it IS illegal. The fact that it was a business doing this was even more upseting. On top of it all, people showed up hours in advance to wait for tickets to see the show and these girls caused others not to be able to see Jersey Boys...

Just advising.. BE WARNED and keep the guard up!

The people who purchased the tickets from the hotel were able to stay and watch the show, yes. We all put 2 and 2 together during intermission. WE mentioned it to a house staff member and were greeted with a "what are you going to do?" response.

Updated On: 10/15/06 at 11:14 PM

I'm shocked that Mistress doesn't understand Spanish.

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Updated On: 10/15/06 at 11:15 PM

Was JLY at least in?

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We attened specifically to see Michael Longoria as Frankie Vallie.

Other covers were:

John Leone as Nick Massi

Matthew Scott was in for Michael Longoria as Joe, et all
Heather Ferguson was in for Erica Piccininni

Michael, as always, was in perfect form and delivered a star making turn.

Yes, i thought John Leone played the role well, but seemed so very physically distant from the rest that it didn't fly.

Matthew Scott is a great performer and was a treat in all of his small roles in that track.. the exception, of course, is young Joe. That is no fault of Matthew's. It is simply that he is very physically and stylistically wrong for that role.

I can not say enough about Michael as Frankie... if anyone has the chance to see him and you don't, you will regret it!

Broadwayguy2- Have you seen JLY? Who do you perfer?

Give me Longoria any day.

I have actually heard several house staff at the theatre refer to Michael as the "best Frankie that they have"


The csalper situation did not affect me as my best friend and I were the first in line...

Updated On: 10/15/06 at 11:36 PM

i've seen all the frankie understudies....

i'd say give me michael anyday, so good as frankie.

give me dominic anyday when i wanted someone to drool over on stage

give me johnlloyd when i'm bringing realitives to the show who wanna see the tony winner.

Once the people purchase their tickets, they do with them what they want.

No, you can't. State law limits the amount of profit that you can make off a ticket resale, and since the tickets in question were sold at almost a 1,000 percent profit at a Midtown hotel, then it was definitely illegal.

This also is why I am not joining the chorus who want that law repealed. Can you imagine what will happen to lotteries and rushes if that was done?

This thread is crazy to read -- messages about scalping are completely intermixed with messages about who's playing Frankie Valli. It's like someone threw two threads in the air and put them together.

Do the people at Jersey Boys write down the rushers' ID info? Calvin is right that the sale was illegal under New York law.

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No one minded that they were partial view? If I were to pay those ridiculous prices, they better be REALLY good seats!

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