I just got off the rush line. There were approximately 20 people in line by 8:30, and then another 10 or 15 people showed up between 8:30 and 10. Apparently they sell 40 rush seats per show? I was sold seat 13 of row E in the orchestra (partial view.)
"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby