Company Student Rush
Company Student Rush
#1Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 12:49pm
Okay, I know this has probably been asked before, but can someone tell me what time to get to Company for student rush? I've heard two hours, three hours, even four hours before the performance. I'm hoping to get front row seats, but I'm not sure when to get there.
Also, do high school student IDs work too?
FrontRowFirst
Stand-by Joined: 9/6/04
#2re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 12:53pmLots of threads about this, but get there when the box office opens. They'll sell student rush right away, ususally, and give out front row first.
#2re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 12:54pmApparently now they will only sell them three hours before curtain, but get there early. Yes, any student ID works -- even high school. Two tickets per ID, and they DO check.
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#3re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 12:58pmI got there when the box office opened this morning, and they gave me box seats and told me the front row seats were sold at full price; I asked if they were still selling whatever's left elsewhere as student rush later in the day, and the woman acted as though that was never their policy--that once boxes were gone, that was it. I hope she was just a cranky woman, because that would be a foolish policy.
#4re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 12:59pmI am not going to happy if they make this really difficult in the final weeks. I think often, but not always, the front row has been sold at full price on weekends, though. Who knows?
#5re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 1:04pmThey've always done student rush in the boxes on Saturdays. Front row is the rest of the week.
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BroadwayGirl107
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#6re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 5:08pm
It wasn't sold at full price, the woman at the box office was just a grouch. The people behind me and my friend in the box had friends who went to the box office around 12:30 and got rush in the front row whereas we were there when it opened and got boxes and the woman said the front row was already sold.
I'd gotten front row on a weekend performance before. The rush policy is getting a little frustrating because it's becoming so arbitrary--who knows when to show up in order to get the good seats instead of the partial view ones anymore?
We were able to move to front and center in the mezzanine, which was good for us, but for the show...ouch.
#7re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 5:12pm
That doesn't make any sense. I'm so f'ing confused. I want to go tomorrow, but I have no idea what time to get there... and I am not happy. I don't know if I should go early because they may sell out by noon or one, or if I should wait because the later, the better. I've been trying really hard to keep my moodiness at bay because I know nobody wants to deal with it, but I really don't need this confusion right now. 
#8re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 5:13pm
Be glad they have 36.50 tickets. They don't HAVE to do that for you.
Calm down about where they are.
#9re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 5:15pmIt's not a matter of where they actually are, it's that they should have a policy that they STICK TO. Giving out three different sets of information just creates unnecessary confusion, and I'm sorry, but that's not fair. It should be uniform, and not depend on what they feel like doing from day-to-day, leaving people who want to buy tickets to play their guessing games. This happened to me with Coram Boy; the woman at the box office blatantly lied to me about the rush policy, and I could not figure out for anything why on earth that would be a smart thing to do.
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#10re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 5:35pmDRS, like Emcee said, it's about having a policy they stick to. Also, they're making it very unclear about whether or not they are limiting the number of student rush tickets now AND they are not letting people know what time they will be released, so it causes unnecessary confusion, and it's really frustrating. Not to mention, those partial view seats are REALLY lousy and the woman at the box office this morning REFUSED to tell me where my seats where before I gave her my money--I mean, I like having the cheap seats, but if I'm paying my money for them and I got there early, I'd like them to just...sell the better seats to me and not lie that they were already sold. Or at least tell me something like...certain seats will be released for rush at such and such a time, but this is all we have right now.
#11re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 5:50pm
Right, I have no problem sacrficing a great view for cheap seats, especially in the final weeks, but I don't think it's too much to ask if we're expecting them to be honest. And not telling you where the seats are before you hand them the money is bullsh*t. I always ask, because I have an insane fear of heights; I've never run into someone who won't tell me that. I have a feeling tomorrow will be a very frustrating morning. 
#12re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 5:54pm
...and they WONDER why everyone complains about BO staff?!
HELLO!!
It's just a message board. Let's not take it too seriously.
#13re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 6:01pm
To be fair, some of the people at the Barrymore box office are very, very nice. There's one guy who would often sell rush tickets a little early in the cold winter months so we wouldn't all have to sit at the box office for hours. That made sense, because whether we got them then or waited in line for two more hours, we'd still have gotten the same seats. The policy was two hours before, but if people showed up at 4 and waited those two hours, they'd get the same seats whether they were sold at 5:30 or 6. Also, I went to buy tickets for the last performance, and brought a discount code with me that said it expired June 30, but didn't have a "valid through x performance" disclaimer. It wouldn't work online, so it wasn't *technically* valid, but I asked the guy if I could please use it for the final peformance, and he didn't even give it a second though. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I was stumbling in all weary-eyed at 10 a.m., but still, it was nice of him.
Moral? Not nice to generalize.
#14re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/16/07 at 6:21pmI think I know the guy you're talking about. I bought rush from him twice, and he was always so nice! I didn't mean to generalize, it's just unfortunate that some are so nasty and give the rest a bad name!
It's just a message board. Let's not take it too seriously.
#15re: Company Student Rush
Posted: 6/17/07 at 10:28pm
Okay, sorry to ask, but if I get there at about 1:30-2 this Tuesday, will I still be able to buy front row student rush? And will there be enough seats for four other people?
Or should I wait and see it another day and get there when the box office opens. (10 a.m.? Am I right?)
Sorry to be annoying, but I'm so confused, and I REALLY want to see this before it closes.
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