Billy Elliott student rush
Billy Elliott student rush
#1Billy Elliott student rush
Posted: 7/26/09 at 3:17pm
I did a search which, surprisingly, yielded nothing. How early does one usually have to arrive on any given weeknight to obtain a rush ticket to Billy Elliott? I know that tickets go on sale two hours prior to curtain, but do people usually start to queue in advance of this?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 7/26/09 at 03:17 PM
#2re: Billy Elliott student rush
Posted: 7/26/09 at 3:25pmThey won't have student rush for a LONG time. If you have to get tickets day of, your best bet is the cancellation line but you'd have to pay full price. Or you could get the $40 rear mezz seats in advance.
#2re: Billy Elliott student rush
Posted: 7/26/09 at 3:49pm
Billy Elliott has rush, Tuesday-Thursday performances, two hours before curtain--unless they have suspended it post-Tonys.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 7/26/09 at 03:49 PM
#3re: Billy Elliott student rush
Posted: 7/26/09 at 4:12pmDidn't someone mention that they wouldn't have Student Rush until sometime in September/after Summer?
#4re: Billy Elliott student rush
Posted: 7/26/09 at 4:34pmI think the student tickets are essentially unsold house seats as opposed to a reserved row or section. If the show is sold out through September, that could be why they aren't offering them until then.
#5re: Billy Elliott student rush
Posted: 7/26/09 at 7:05pmI do believe I read somewhere that they have suspended student rush until at the earliest, September.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
#6re: Billy Elliott student rush
Posted: 7/26/09 at 7:42pm
Thats correct, last I asked at the box office, they do not expect student rush to return until "the fall", presumably post-summer rush. There's a small sign in the lobby that says "no student rush" thats been up pretty much since the Tonys.
You can get a last minute ticket thru the cancellation line, as long as you're willing to go 2-3 hours before, pay full price, and wait. Last few people I've talked to who have done it have had pretty great luck with it.
EDIT: Your search probably didn't return anything because you spelled "Elliot" wrong.
Updated On: 7/26/09 at 07:42 PM
#7re: Billy Elliott student rush
Posted: 7/26/09 at 9:05pm
The student tickets aren't unsold house seats; they are mainly unsold partial view tickets, i.e. tickets in the $82 range. When I rushed in February, my friend and I got partial view seats in the front mezz (the partial view seats, btw, are not bad at all).
I wouldn't expect them to have rush again until at least mid-September.
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