Class trips to DROWSY CHAPERONE?!?!

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:01pm

I was at the matinee, today.

Actually I really couldn't afford to. I had to go to MoMA to see an exhibit for my History of Photography class and on the way I stopped in to see if there were any $25 rear mezz seats available. And, I bought one. Even though I have less than $200 in my account and I had to pay to get into MoMA as well. This is why I'm bad with money.

Upon waiting for the doors to open there's an old couple talking about how they can't wait to see THE WOMAN IN WHITE. When someone corrects them and tells them it closed a long time ago...they honestly couldn't believe it. What's funny is they bought the tickets THAT DAY. And, if that's not weird enough, they bought them from the ticket broker in the Marriot Marquis hotel. Apparently later, there was some yelling going on at that booth as they had sold quite a number of tickets that day for a show that is no longer running. (I was chuckling the whole time. I know I'm evil.)

I'd say the mezz was only about 3/4 full and that's only because there was a class trip there seeing the show. I'd say they were 8th graders...but acted like 4th graders. They were munching away on their Nestle crunches...I even saw one boy playing his GameBoy and acted pissed when he had to put it away when the show began. Then I hear this one girl screaming behind me. "I'm scared...when I saw WICKED I was sitting on the ground. Can I fall from up here?"

It took much patience not for me to turn around and stangle her. She wouldn't shut up about her seats.

All the while I'm muttering to myself. "I have to walk through the cold and snow with no jacket...and now I have to listen to this. This show better be worth it."

And...it was. I loved every minute of it.

But...with the show not even a week into previews. What school would plan a class trip to see it?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:02pm

People who don't know the difference.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 4/5/06 at 8:11pm

Foa, I can prove your story true. I was passing through the Mariott a few weeks ago and saw a hotel consierge angrily banging on the theater lobby doors. I asked her the problem and she said that some of her clients had been sold tickets to Woman in White by the hotel broker. The show had closed months earlier.