Buying tickets for The Town Hall

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 12/30/10 at 1:21pm

Has anyone here bought tickets for a concert at the Town Hall through OvationTix.com? I got an email this morning from Theatremania for $25 Orchestra seats to Marc Kudisch's concert on Jan 15 that I'd like to purchase, but it does not say where the seats are, just "best available." That tells me nothing as "best available" could be the last row or the front row or way on the side. I called the phone number for OvationTix and the woman there said that the seats are General Admission (??), but when I look up the event on Ticketmaster, they are selling individual seats (the one that came up was B116.)

Or are the GA seats just the ones that are left over after everything else has been purchased, not the best available at the time of purchase, and you don't get assigned a seat until right before showtime?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/30/10 at 1:55pm

Weird. It's not general admission and if you go to ticketmaster you can choose seats. The best way to get them is just go to the box office.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 12/30/10 at 3:26pm

The offer is online only.

My feeling from reading your post is that Ovation has a maximun number of tickets to sell and when that allocation is reached they will cut it off unless of course, the allotment is increased. The box office will hold off assigning the actual locations until the date gets closer. Maybe not until the day of or 2-3 days prior.

Town Hall is not very deep, maybe 20 rows downstairs although it is four full seat sections wide rather than the usual three. I have sat all over that venue (the cabaret convention used to be held there) and even the far side seats were fine. Best available at Town Hall is much better than best available at the Music Hall. N.B. - I have never sat in the far side seats that are down close.

If the concert is three weeks away and Ticketmaster has B center seats available plus this offer is blasted out, it probably is not selling strongly.

Acoustically Town Hall is a treasure.

At twenty-five bucks a pop, this is a deal no matter how you look at it.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 12/30/10 at 3:50pm

Thanks WOSQ! That is very helpful!