EMindelan said: "Does anyone know if most of the shows are selling out so that SRO is available or not really? I really want to go a week from today (Tuesday May 28) but I can't camp out all night, so I'm trying to figure out what the best thing is. Also, can anyone who's gotten one of the $99 box tickets in the morning say when they got in line to get that ticket?"
It is very much dependent on the house’s/production’s policy about when Standing Room tickets are sold. Some shows will sell them as soon as the box office opens if they are 95%+ sold out, which I know Newsies did back in the day during its first year, as they were confident they were going to sell the rest of tickets during the day. Add to that Standing Room tickets for Newsies were severely partial view as due to the low hanging Mezzanine at the Neaderlander, and the 3 story erector set that was the shows set, standing room couldn’t see anything above the 2nd story of the rear set, or the 1.5 stories of the front set, causing the seats to miss Santa Fe, and Once and For all (two of the biggest numbers in terms of plot). This may of been why, Disney was able to sell them without truly selling out.
Other houses are much stricter with standing room, and won’t sell them until the last seat is sold. I remember waiting for Elephant Man standing room on a Friday near the end of its run. Despite the show selling an average of 105% gross potential and 101% of capacity throughout its entire run, they wouldn’t sell standing room until the last seat was sold. Unfortunately for me for me and the rest of the Standing room line there was a single $350 premium seat left unsold 10 minutes prior to curtain so they didn’t sell standing room. It sounds like Hadestown is falling inti the latter category, which sucks for those waiting in line but it seems like odds are good that it will truly sell out.