Cheaters at Hair Lotto- Page 4

[adamgreer]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 2:51pm

Yes, Allison Case participates in the Hair lotto. I believe Kacie Sheik has done it before, too.

[yay_gerb]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 2:52pm

she was probablly just passing by and decided to help out.

[Anakela]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 2:56pm

John Moauro drew my name the last time I won HAIR lotto. (I don't remember how I folded my paper, though.)

[iflip4musicals]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:06pm

I've done this lotto many times, and I can say that the regular guy who pulls the names almost always pulls out the intricately folded ones. On my 5th or 6th time there, I folded mine up and placed it in, hoping I would finally be picked. Michael James Scott (a cast member) ended up pulling the names, and only pulled the flat ones. That was super annoying....

But yeah, cast members pull sometimes and who knows if it'll be a folded day or not. It kinda sucks.

And on the subject of rigged, the Drowsy lotto was rigged for me once, and I lost but the boyfriend of the guy drawing won.... interesting..... That happened after I lost 10+ times, not saying that made it any better, but jeez! That wasn't nearly as packed as Hair!

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:09pm

"And on the subject of rigged, the Drowsy lotto was rigged for me once, and I lost but the boyfriend of the guy drawing won.... interesting....."

It wasn't rigged very well then, was it?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:17pm

I think she meant it was rigged on a day she entered... not for her?

More importantly, though, I think stories like this are the reason people in this thread are getting upset. Just because he was the guy's boyfriend doesn't mean it was rigged. It could have been a coincidence. A lot of people here have witnessed definitive instances of cheating, though, where one way or another, it was very, very clear, not just assumed.

[wickedfan11]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:22pm

When I saw Hair, Gaelen Gilliland and Justin Patterson of 9 to 5 both won the lotto. My mom thought it was rigged, but it could have just been a coincidence.

[iflip4musicals]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:34pm

wickedfan11 I was there that day too! but I lost...

It was rigged for me, which I know isn't cool. I only shared because it's been closed for so long. The boyfriend could have won by coincidence, but we will never know. **No other lottos have been rigged for me, I promise!!!

[little_sally]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:36pm

A few weeks ago at Hair, both Michael Longoria from Jersey Boys and his mother won. Not that I'm saying that it was rigged but I figured I'd throw that out there.

Updated On: 7/13/09 at 04:36 PM

[wickedfan11]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:41pm

iflip4musicals- I didn't win either. Did you end up buying tickets?

[iflip4musicals]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:45pm

Nope. Pretty sure we went over to 9 to 5 instead. But I lottoed 5 Hair performances that week, so I really don't remember... The only time I bought tickets were standing room on 7/4, and I believe that incident was 7/3? Correct me if I'm wrong though!

[wickedfan11]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:46pm

iflip4musicals- It was the matinee on the 3rd.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:52pm

"It was rigged for me, which I know isn't cool".

If it was rigged for you, how did you lose, then?

I don't get all this fuss. It's like the people who wanted more and better seats for Twelfth Night. A lotto is not a right, and you're lucky they offer it. Has any lotto ever been rigged on occasion? Of course. You're making way too big a deal about it though.

I remember awhile back someone videod the WSS guy through the glass doors as "proof" of his cheating. I didn't see anything remotely suspicious about it. They even posted it on youtube. Sometimes you lose the lotto. Quit whining about it.

Also, folding or crumpling your entry is an age-old way of improving your chances. Don't see how that's cheating.
Updated On: 7/13/09 at 04:52 PM

[xxdrewboy85xx]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:53pm

I swear the lotto is rigged alot. Ive been to the drowsy lotto when it was rigged as well as Dirty Rotten...

When I was at Spelling Bee Lotto the woman doing the lotto ( a huge B*tch btw) knew like a group of 10 people at the lotto and was talking to them the whole time about a past show they worked on together and you could see the way she was folding the tickets for them- and lord behold 5 of the 10 people got their names drawn hence all 10 of them won lott. Coincidence? I think not...

[itwontbelongnowx]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:56pm

At Hair, the cast members are allowed to pull lottery, but they cannot enter. As far as which cast members pull, I've see Allison Case and John Moauro pull the lotto before, multiple times for each.

[iflip4musicals]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 4:58pm

Well it was supposed to be. The best laid plans....

[bossbear062]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 5:00pm

I had a very STRONG feeling that the RENT lotto was rigged. I say this because every time I was there it would be this guy running it. he would take your slip and but it into something under the table. I notice every time a pretty girl we show up he would flirt with them a little. Then when it was time for drawing he would take the bucket from under the table (note nobody saw where your slip went it was just put under a table) then he would call names and i swear to you at least half the winners were the really hot girls that he was flirting with. Once I saw a group of 5 beautiful girls who played (one of them knew him) and they all won. I played that lotto at least 5 different times and it would always happen....I'm just saying.

[froggy2]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 5:08pm

Unless you know the entire story, you have no idea if there was actual cheating happening or not. Just because a lotto person was talking to someone who ended up winning, it doesn't mean anything shady went down.

When I won the WSS lotto, people probably thought I cheated because the girl who pulled the names actually knew me, and we freaked out as she saw me walk up to the line of winners. Of course, I had no idea she was doing the lotto for WSS, and she had no idea I was even there, because the crowd was so huge I was stuck in the back until I heard my name. If someone witnessed me winning and walking up there jumped to the same conclusion you guys have been doing, they'd be dead wrong. So lighten up, sometimes a loss is just a loss, sucky as it may be.

[little_sally]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 5:19pm

So, according to this thread, every lotto is or was rigged.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 5:22pm

WEST SIDE STORY is the only lottery I know for a fact was (and is still, to a lesser degree) "rigged."

Updated On: 7/13/09 at 05:22 PM

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 7:27pm

I know a cast member of Hair and have never won.
However, when I did the Bee lotto on my birthday, my Mom told the lotto lady it was my birthday, and mine was the first name called!

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 7:48pm

I have been at Hair when cast members have pulled. I was there on Saturday but Allison wasn't pulling... It was the normal lotto guy. I was helping an out of town friend with lotto for the both the matinee and evening show (2 different friends) and two of the people I was with folding the paper into a fortune teller shape and one of them was pulled.

For both the lottos 2 of the 8 people were called in my group and I ended up taking some of the tickets.

[winter_sky]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 8:14pm

Maybe that's why I've never won HAIR lotto. I don't know origami.

Also there IS another Allison associated with HAIR winston89, Allison Guinn.

[staticradar]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 8:40pm

Well at HAIR they encourage you to fold things in odd shapes. I played once and actually one folding mine into a triangle shape. It was pretty cool and my friends have played 2 other times and ended up winning. Some people just have good luck. So far haven't seen anything fishy at HAIR.

Other lottos on the other hand...

[rwlevin]

Posted: 7/13/09 at 11:17pm

Sometimes it's the trend of the slips being pulled that makes the lotto seem like it's being rigged. Let me explain.

Many years ago, after about 10 tries, I finally won the lotto for Wicked, as did the person who stood directly behind me to put our names and the two people directly in front of me (you know, when you have to stand in line to put your card/paper slip in because that's the only way to have organized chaos?) And none of us knew each other. That was just the nature of how the cards were shuffled that day. They just happened to get pulled in order.

I did have a friend pull my name for Spelling Bee once, but that's another story. The way I see it, if you do it once and a while and only for one friend at a time, it's not as bad, because it will happen but it shouldn't be nearly as bad as 5 people from the same group getting their names called or the same person winning every night. That's a little crazy.