Dear Evan Hansen - Cancellation Line/Lottery — Page 37

sq131 said: "is either card or cash accepted?"

The box office accepts both, however, I recommend that, at least after sunrise, you take out at least $200 cash per ticket that you need just in case either your card doesn't work, or more specifically, that you give yourself the added option of making a purchase from someone on the street who has an extra ticket.

In case anyone is interested, there are two premium seats for tomorrow night (Thursday 10/26). Orchestra Center F 110, and J 106, $425 each.

If you only need a single it's possible the 2 in front of you will pass on it if offered.

My cancel line experience on Wednesday, 10/25. Got there at 12 noonish. Ticket needs were:

Lady 1&2 = 2 tickets; arrived at 8 am

Man = 1 ticket arrived at 10 am

Pro line sitter = 2 tickets arrived at 11 am

2nd Pro line sitter = 2 tickets arrived at 11 am

Tourist = 2 tickets arrived at 11:30 am

Tourist = 1 tickets arrived at noon

Me 1 ticket = arrived at noonish 11 total needed for this group

Plus there were 8 more folks behind me by 5 pm. Other folks were ahead of me very early but they left and got matinee cancel tickets. They didn't want to wait 8 hours.

After waiting 8 hours, the box office started sales at 7:50p. The box office only had 8 tickets for 20 people online. They were sold out by the time they reached me, but minutes later, I got mine b/c the professional line sitter had one client who didn't show. He wanted $300 for the $200 ticket that the box offices charges. Since it was 3 minutes to 8pm, he took the face value of $200. Show was great again. (saw it before)

When I arrived at 12 noonish, I went to box office to ask the policy. These are NOT cancels. He said that they only sell the house seats that the producer sets aside for last minute celebrities. He sells them at $199 each. He said he does not sell tickets that a person bought at the BO, yet on another occasion, I was behind a man who said he was "dropping off his tickets b/c he bought them and couldn't make it."

So let's assume they only sell the producer's tickets. Also, he said they allot 12 tickets for the lottery. If someone fails to pay for their ticket following notice, that ticket goes back into his lot of available tickets at the BO. Apparently that's not happening much since the pattern has been less than 10 available tickets.

One chatter here partially named "tree?" said there were only 5 tickets available and she missed out b/c the guy in front of her took the last one. Doesn't seem like they sell a lot of cancels.

So the 8 available seats tonight: 2 were in center orchestra row A that went to the first 2 ladies.. Because you have the stage wall in front of you, it was considered an obstructed view. They didn't care. They paid $149.

They took the man for 1 and a tourist for 1, row H center orchestra.

The remaining 4 tickets were sold to the professional sitters. Those tickets were the first 4 seats in row F with seats starting at the center aisle. The pros sold the tickets to 3 of the people on the cancel line for $300 each.

By this point, everyone was in the theater. It was 7:59. After an 8 hour wait on the line, I was getting ready to leave when the pro line sitter offered me the last ticket for face value of $199. In exchange he asked for a reference as a line sitter. I got in after the first opening song. Was fine.

I recommend having $300 cash if you wish to carry that. I also noticed that the first in line get crappier seats. The ladies were in row A, the tourists in H, and we got F starting at center aisle for 4 seats.

That also happened at Springsteen. The first seats were sold in the back of the boxes with the better seats sold to folks further back on line.

Hansen seats were great. This was typical in Hamilton also. The cast and house seats were always in the first 8 rows center or side near center.

No Hansen tickets were offered in the mezzanine. The people in standing room said they were lottery winners. I couldn't stand that long. I had a chair on the line.

The Marriott hotel ticket broker offered tickets row O, left orchestra, all the way at the end of row near the exit door. He called them door knocker seats. He wanted $575 each. Wasn't worth it.

Bottom line, anyone beyond the 9th person on line most likely WILL NOT get a ticket. No one who was on was an overnight sitter.

I also told the ticket BO manager that it was awful they waited until 7:50p to start selling. Surely they'd know by 7:30p.

Springsteen cancel tickets go on sale at 7pm for an 8pm show, but they charge $500-700 each and most seats are in the boxes. Yes, folks got seats for $300 and $75 at times, but the BO rep said she wasn't aware of that. It might've been the exception or she was lying. Everyone on the Springsteen line up to the 15th person got in, but all paid $500. I mention this to give you a comparison with Hansen.

Since it was Broadway cares week, I was also very happy to buy a cast autographed poster.

Hope this info helps all.


JayElle

SpyOnTheInside said: "How's it going on line? I'm on a bus right now to nyc (from Boston) with my 13yr old. We're getting in at 1pm and I'm considering coming straight over to join the line, but I think we may be too late. What do you think? Have many others joined the line? Maybe just wait and try getting there 5 or 6 am tomorrow?"



Based on how things have been going recently, I probably wouldn’t bother. Someone just reported people getting there 9pm the night before (and that was on a Wednesday no less!). When we rushed for last Friday, I think people first got there at 1am.

It looks like the average number of tickets a show is 8ish. So unless you are fourth or fifth in line you are really gambling with your time. I’d say if you want to guarantee a ticket, get there tonight for tomorrow’s show. Looks like things are just going to keep getting worse the closer we get. :/

Updated On: 10/26/17 at 09:45 AM

There’s about 15 people in line righ now, some going for 2 tickets. Probably best to try tomorrow? The first person after me arrived at 7 am, but there may be more people attending for a Friday night show!

sq131 said: "SpyOnTheInside said: "How's it going on line? I'm on a bus right now to nyc (from Boston) with my 13yr old. We're getting in at 1pm and I'm considering coming straight over to join the line, but I think we may be too late. What do you think? Have many others joined the line? Maybe just wait and try getting there 5 or 6 am tomorrow?"

There’s about 15 people in line righ now, some going for 2 tickets. Probably best to try tomorrow? The first person after me arrived at 7 am, but there may be more people attending for a Friday night show!"

I would just maximize the time you have here and try again tomorrow. I know it's tempting to stay in line and normally I would say go ahead and stay if you were maybe 10th in line, but 15th is almost definitely not going to get you tickets. I'd check back at 9 or 10 tonight and see if a line has started yet!

JayElle said: "Other folks were ahead of me very early but they left and got matinee cancel tickets. They didn't want to wait 8 hours."

At what time did the first few Matinee ticket acquirers arrive to the line?

People have been selling box seats on stubhub for a while, since before I was told they don't sell them in advance. I figured those were purchased before and they had moved them to the lotto more recently.