Been a fan of theatre for a long time--finally making my first trip to NYC to see a Broadway show in early October :)
I am planning on seeing: If/Then Beautiful Matilda Gentleman's Guide
Any advice on what tickets to buy in advance vs. which to get discounts on day of? Also, I was looking at ticket availability for Beautiful and noticed there's a Sunday evening performance on October 12. What's up with that? Any (greater) chance Jessie Mueller would be out that day since it's not how the schedule normally works?
I think a lot of shows are doing two shows on that Sunday because it's a holiday weekend. I think your chances of seeing Jessie is as good as any other night. That said, when I went to purchase tickets earlier this year, I was told at the box office that I selected a day that Jessie was planning to be on vacation..and to pick another date if I wanted to see her.
As of now, I believe that Matilda and If/Then are often at TKTS but I don't think the others are there as often. I know Beautiful is rarely there.
Beautiful is rarely at TKTS, A entailments guide in sometimes but towards the fall it could be on much more I think. Matilda and If/Then are almost always on TKTS.
I would recommend buying Beautiful tickets in advance. I was going to rush for the show but it was about a month after the Tonys and I knew I wanted to see it so I caved and bought full price tickets for the from mezz and they were great seats! I would totally do it again, the show is phenomenal. If you want to try to get cheap tickets, you could try the lottery for Matilda and/or If/Then. It is not guaranteed that you will get tickets, but the tickets are about $25 or $30 each. If you don't win, you could always go to the TKTS to get tickets.
Jessie has two scheduled weeks off in the next few months, August 26th-31st and October 28th - November 2nd, so I doubt she'd be planning to be off on a random Sunday night in the middle of Oct.