Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Rush

[onbroadwy]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 1:16pm

I was just wondering if anyone had done this recently. I am planning on trying for the Wednesday matinee and was wondering what time I should get there. TalkinBroadway says that they give out the tickets 2 hours before the show, but from your experience should I get there even earlier?

Thank you for your help.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 1:24pm

I guess it's sort of dependent on who you end up talking to at the box office, but apparently rush tickets aren't supposed to be sold for matinees.

Anyway, no, you don't need to get there more than two hours before - you won't encounter a line. It seems like the trick might actually be to get there somewhere between an hour and thirty minutes prior to curtain.

Good luck!

[onbroadwy]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 8:34pm

Thank you for your help, i'll try that! I hope I can get tickets.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 9:09pm

The tickets are just the unsold seats. I went on a Saturday evening once and was in row J in the orchestra. I bought them maybe an hour before curtain. This show never sells out, just go whenever.

[Kevo711]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 9:41pm

how much do these tickets cost?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 9:44pm

$26.25.

[Kevo711]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 9:45pm

thanks emcee, you are like the god of chitty info!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 9:45pm

No problem; good luck!

[Benzy92]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 9:46pm

I got tix about an hour and a half beofre curtain, and got 3 tickets in row U center, and they were surprisingly amazing seats..

[greatdct]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 10:11pm

I did rush for Chitty earlier this week and there was a huge line. I had to wait forever. I ended up getting a seat in row W but I moved up to front row for act two since the entire front row was empty.

I saw the show from front row again yesterday and it was empty again.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 10:14pm

Sometimes the line isn't only for rush, though. It's one box-office line, and chances are a lot of the people are just buying regular tickets. I meant that people don't line up for Chitty rush like they do Spamalot, or something.

Front row EMPTY?! SH*T.

[greatdct]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 10:16pm

Yeah, that's probably what it was.

I know. I felt so bad for the cast having to perform such an upbeat show to a half empty and dead audience. And I felt really stupid being the only one in the front row. I don't like to stick out. Haha.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 10:21pm

Last time I went, the audience was dead dead DEAD. I wanted to check their pulses, or something. It's a big theatre to fill... or so I tell myself. I'd like to see it from the front row at some point.

[greatdct]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 10:27pm

You should! I love front row for any show. I'm just obsessed with watching facial expressions and little things that they do. Haha.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 10:33pm

Exactly. Maybe for Raul's last, or something.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 10:48pm

Last week, we arrived 10 minutes before they went on sale and there was no one in the box office at all. The man working, however, insisted we wait "off to the side" until 5:00 exactly. At exactly 5 PM, he sold us tickets. No one else entered the box office the entire time we were there. Our seats were in Row U of the orchestra- pretty good.

Incidentally, the audience (on a Tuesday night) was surprisingly upbeat from about the end of Act 1 on. I think the arrival of Jan Maxwell and Marc Kudisch perked everyone up.

[tagiunagi]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 2:02am

Are there certain days you can purchase rush tix or is it every evening show?

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 9:25am

Technically, they're not supposed to have them for matinees. However, based on reports here, it sounds as if that depends on whose manning the box office window that day.

It's very inconsistent.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 12:29pm

For evening shows, it's every day, tagiunagi.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 12:32pm

I got a very good (two, actually) ticket for a Wed matinee rush.

It was less than 2 hrs before and the lady just said, "We don't do it for matinees, but we have extra seats"

A $25, or whatever it is, ticket is better than an empty seat.

[ChristineDaae]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:42pm

I got good seats when I went. I went to a Sunday matinee. We were there 2 hours before the show and it was fine. There wasn't a line or anything.

[flirtandflounce]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:30am

I cant remember...is it student rush or general rush?

[adamgreer]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:48am

Student. And when we went the man really scrutinized my graduate student ID. I think he thought I was trying to pull a fast one on him.
Updated On: 8/29/05 at 09:48 AM

[cabarethed]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 10:10am

I had absolutely no problem getting a student rush seat for yesterday (Sunday's) show, and I went early too. My seat was so fab btw, row E center. Oh yeah.