Did standing room line this morning, and had a very frustrating experience. Yesterday the lady at the box office told us that anyone that had ever arrived in line by 7:00am was able to get tickets for standing room, and that there were almost always 16-20 tickets available. Today, that wasn't so. My two friends and I arrived at 6:25am, and there were 4 people ahead of us. After introducing myself, I asked how many tickets everyone was buying (first group arrived at 4:45). The first three guys said they were each getting one ticket, and that they had another friend coming...great news. The next guy was getting two tickets, so that left my friends and I as tickets numbers 7-12...well below the 16 count that we were told.
About 7:15am we had a line cutter who made friends with the guys in the front. About 9:30 a line sitter behind me confronted her and asked her to get out of line because we all knew she cut the line based on her reaction to the longish line when she first arrived. Long story short, the guys in the front lied about several things (who was buying tickets and just hanging out) and said she was with them. They then bought more tickets than they originally said, and Box office sold out after only 12 SRO tickets were sold. After front guys bought their tickets, it was funny how they left and didn't wait for their new friend (line cutter girl).
All this to say, if you want to wait in line for SRO seats, just know that 6:25am may not be early enough AND 16 is not an accurate number of available seats....today only 12 were released. Now four (instead of 6) of us get to go see the show tonight and see those 'lovely' people from the front of the line this morning.