Dear Evan Hansen Standing Room — Page 3

Thanks, Skimbleshanks2! Like boonanas, I'm curious if you went on a Sunday (I assume yes).

I got to the box office today at 820am (Sunday) and was already 11th-14th in line (it wasn't super clear since people kept coming and going). The first person arrived at 5am. The person in front of me arrived at 8am and the three people before him arrived at 730am. The next person arrived at 835am, and by 9am there were 5 people behind me. When the box office opened, there must have been 40 or more people on line. Clearly, people love this show.

Side note: The Great Comet line was only 5 people deep when I arrived.

UPDATE: I got a ticket!

Updated On: 2/12/17 at 08:41 AM

All box offices usually open at 12 on Sundays. Unless this one is different.

SRO tickets are $42 each, payable by cash, debit, or credit. You can buy SRO tickets when the box office opens if the show you want to buy tickets for is sold out at that time (which it oftentimes is). It's very difficult to gauge when to get in line, as the situation is different every day, but based on what I've read (and experienced), being in line 3 hours before the box office opens on cold, two-show weekend days (which, in your case, is 7am) will probably be safe. Though, there are never any guarantees (which is why you often see people lining up 5+ hours beforehand). People tend to arrive at 15 minute intervals, so if you get there at an "in-between time" (e.g., 650am instead of 7am) you may beat out groups of people; but this is more of a guideline rather than a rule.

I would encourage you to read through this and other threads on Dear Evan Hansen to make your best judgment. Just remember that every day is different. Some days you can get to the box office at 630am and not get a SRO ticket; other days you can walk up to the box office 5 minutes before showtime and snag a SRO ticket (this happened to the person standing next to me at this past Sunday's matinee).

Updated On: 2/21/17 at 10:40 PM

It is 6:15a on Saturday (President's day weekend) and there are currently 21 people in line!

Update: 8 for matinee and 4 for evening were given. Cancellation tickets are sold at full price. The house manager said to come back an hour before the show for those.

Updated On: 2/18/17 at 06:24 AM

Hello, just want to share our experience with DEH standing room! Me and my partner did standing room tickets for DEH yesterday, Sunday, 02/19/2017! We got there at 4:00AM and we were first in line, number 2 got there at 5PM, and 3-5 got there at 5:45AM. By around 7-8 the line was closer to 12-15 people. At about 11:30AM (the box office doesn't open until 12 noon on Sundays), one of the workers came out and told us that they would be handing out 7 standing room tickets. Needless to say, the first 7 of us were able to get tickets for $42 each. We asked the box office if there were any other types of tickets available for people in the line, and they said there was a good chance for cancellation line tickets. When we entered for the show, we saw one of our line friends and unfortunately she was not able to get in, and she was first in line- she ended up purchasing her daughter a partial view ticket for $300.

The view from the standing room is on point- right at eye level for us and there was a deck surface to lean on. It was a great standing room as all of the spots were numbered and followed the tickets, so there is no need to rush as it is not first come first serve.

PS- we had tried to get tickets Saturday, 02/18/2017, and we got there are 7:30AM and we were number 36 in line. We had asked the first person what time they got in line and they said 2:30AM.

GreasedLightning said: "Anybody purchase those box seats at the box office lately? Wondering if I can grab a couple when I'm in the area on Saturday.

Did you get those tickets on Saturday? Are the boxes only released day of? I thought you can buy them in advance, just not online. Right?

Simp1ysimon said:

The two conniving bitches in the front bought 2 tickets each."

I'm not really upset about the shortage of tickets on a weekday, but I am really pissed about the two women using the line holder. There is definitely a place in hell for people like that. I hope they get hit by a tour bus while crossing the street next time they try to screw over another SRO line. Hiring one line holder shouldn't be able to net you 4 tickets. The lady at the box office just shrugged when we told her what happen.

So my lessons from this experience: arrive really early for this show (6:30 AM is not early enough) and keep an eye out for the people that hire a line holder, they can be shady since hiring a line holder and paying for the SRO tickets is nearly face value of the show. "

Uhh --- sounds like someone needs to up the dosage on their meds!! Relax, pal --- it's ONLY a Broadway show!!

simp1ysimon said: "MinnieFay said: "
Uhh --- sounds like someone needs to up the dosage on their meds!! Relax, pal --- it's ONLY a Broadway show!!



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Would you be so relaxed if this happened to you? Those two women blatantly lied to everyone in the SRO line to their face and swooped in the last hour and bought more than half the tickets. It is not fun to wake up at 4 AM and freeze in the cold for 3 hours for nothing. I guess you're fine with people cheating the system. Most importantly, I have informed others about the number of tickets available and what is a good time to arrive on the day I went. What exactly have you contributed to this thread?



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I'm very sorry this happened to you, definitely a messed up thing to happen!

GreasedLightning said: "Anybody purchase those box seats at the box office lately? Wondering if I can grab a couple when I'm in the area on Saturday.



" this past week I went in and asked about box seats and partial view. They told me they don't sell it anymore since now those seats are for lottery. Idk if that's exactly true cuz there are a ton of partial view seats on stubhub, but that is what the box office told me

I think I'm going to try for this sometime in the new few weeks. Debating just buying a ticket for a future performance, but I kinda want to see it soon. Living in Manhattan, I should be able to do it, but we'll see. Will report back next week on my experience.

The view is great it's really close since the theater is pretty small compared to others. I wouldn't buy an orchestra seat cuz your concerned about the view, though. If anything I'd buy it so you don't have to wake up at 4 am to get in line for SRO.

josegllnts said: "Hello everyone! I'm from San Francisco and it's my first time here in Nyc! I'm planning on lining up super early tomorrow (5:30 maybe) but there are 2 shows for tomorrow. One matinee and one evening. How would standing room work for that? Is it still the same as a one day show or...??? Help please!



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I asked the lady at the box office about that and she said they sell both shows at 10 AM. I might try to get the tickets again tomorrow. Maybe I'll see you there.