Hamilton Cancellation Line — Page 12

Rather than go back and forth until doomsday, we will agree to disagree and leave it at that. Neither one of us will change their minds so that is it.

Okay everybody listen up!

I was in the line this morning at 5am and I stayed until right before two when I got a ticket to the matinee. There are some serious misconceptions here.

Around 6:30, NYPD told the four of us in line (me and three line sitters) that we had to move and come back at 8. We all went very calmly and quietly, and one of the line sitters put up a sign telling any new comers that we had gone to McDonald's.

At 8 we all went back to the theatre, 5 of us now, and stayed there. We had fun, helped each other stay warm, and even got a free pizza from a nice passerby.

Yes it was cold as balls but it was fun and the show was great.

So did others come to McDonald's before you went back? Did you have any people in line when you got back refusing to move?

I will also say, because I forgot to mention it earlier, that the line sitters were all giant sweethearts. They lent me blankets and were concerned whether I was alright. One of them was actually the CEO of Same Old Line Dudes. So yeah, I've just seen a lot of negative things about the line sitters and they were actually really awesome.

Most people are, Scout, when you get to know them.

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Updated On: 2/15/16 at 07:17 PM

Anyone else having issues entering the lottery today? It says "upcoming" for todays 2pm performance still but it was supposed to open at 9am. Thanks.

Thanks! It just worked for me

My experience this weekend -- wonderful

I hired a line-sitter for Saturday, the 13th. He arrived at 4am. I replaced him at 9am. We were 3rd in line. 4th & 5th tickets. I paid him $140.00, $25.00 an hr + tip. It was freezing, but it was crazy fun sharing the experience with everyone in line. We got into the matinee at 1:45pm. 4th row ctr. 166.00 a tickets. add 70.00 per ticket for line-sitter., a total of $236.00 + tax-- so about $250.00 each. A steal. The show was perfection, not one understudy - well one swing- but no-one else. It is a masterpiece. It was worth it !!

BTW - Lin Manuel Miranda came out the fire door at about 11:15am, into our group of 8 people trying to get out of the wind. It was such a surprise, we all just said "wow, hi... He said something like "OMG..you people be crazy in this cold.. but, Thank You and good luck" and walked quickly up the street. that kept us going..

Updated On: 2/17/16 at 11:33 AM

ATAOAM said: "Our service, @linestandingnyc has a 100% success rate with the cancellation line. Contact us on twitter or by calling 3232066921. Our rates are also better than any of our competitors."

The line services always have a 100% success rate, no? You get paid all of your money whether or not the people get tickets...

of course, your free to do whatever you want. But seriously? this is the way it is done. they are not going to alter a thing..they could care less if its fair or unfair.

vdirects said: "I'm considering writing to the Richard Rogers Theatre with feedback and suggestions on how they can improve the cancellation line process and make it fairer, safer an more efficient, and generally show more respect toward their patrons.

Does anyone have any additional suggestions or idea I should add or don't think this is a good idea?

The 2 big suggestions I have are:

Have a physical list/sign up sheet. When the box office opens, an attendant takes names. If they don't have the man power for this, have a numbers dispenser. People sign up as they come. They wait outside or in the lobby until their name is called. If they don't respond, we move to the next person on the list. You must show any form of ID (not just driver's liscense/could be school id) matching the name on the sheet (SNL does something similar). This prevents or at least cuts back on cutting , swapping and other line tricks such as hiring a professional line sitter.

Allow some of all people to wait in the lobby during cold temperatures. This should be obvious, but RRT has recently felt it better to teach rowdy people a lesson than keep the overwhelmingly majority of peaceful patrons warm and safe.

Only release cancellation tickets at a designated time close to the show and thereafter (e.g. an hour before curtain), instead of on a rolling basis throughout the day. This pushes back the time people come to line up, if they know tickets will be released an hour before show time.

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I have stood in line and received tickets. There is no fairer way to do it. Now the line sitters that needs to stop IMO. I like the idea of people standing in line, but people paying others to stand in line is atrocious. Once again, it is limiting people with lower income from seeing the show. Make it fair for everyone.

Other than that, you can't have people wait in the lobby. There theater employees getting ready for the show and rehearsals. Also, it welcomes the opportunity of someone sneaking away and hiding in the theater. What happens if you let them in, and then don't sell tickets. Also, most of the tickets are not released until after the doors open. Then what?!?!?

Also for releasing tickets, if i was standing in the front of the line, I want my tickets ASAP. That way you can make plans to do something for the rest of the day, or not. Also, the majority of the tickets released become available literally at show time or sometimes after showtime. There is no way to release them before hand, unless someone calls ahead of time and cancels the ticket. Otherwise, they hold them until show time.

If you do set times to be put on a list and/or release tickets, it welcomes more chaos in my opinion as everyone starts lining up earlier in advance for the times they take names. It only pushes things back further.

vdirects said: "I'm considering writing to the Richard Rogers Theatre with feedback and suggestions on how they can improve the cancellation line process and make it fairer, safer an more efficient, and generally show more respect toward their patrons.

Does anyone have any additional suggestions or idea I should add or don't think this is a good idea?

The 2 big suggestions I have are:

Have a physical list/sign up sheet. When the box office opens, an attendant takes names. If they don't have the man power for this, have a numbers dispenser. People sign up as they come. They wait outside or in the lobby until their name is called. If they don't respond, we move to the next person on the list. You must show any form of ID (not just driver's liscense/could be school id) matching the name on the sheet (SNL does something similar). This prevents or at least cuts back on cutting , swapping and other line tricks such as hiring a professional line sitter.

Allow some of all people to wait in the lobby during cold temperatures. This should be obvious, but RRT has recently felt it better to teach rowdy people a lesson than keep the overwhelmingly majority of peaceful patrons warm and safe.

Only release cancellation tickets at a designated time close to the show and thereafter (e.g. an hour before curtain), instead of on a rolling basis throughout the day. This pushes back the time people come to line up, if they know tickets will be released an hour before show time.

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This is taking it too far and makes no sense. Even if tickets are released close to showtime (which is how it goes more often than not anyway) how is that going to change the line up time? People who stand or hire are prepared to stay until showtime as it is. The sign up sheet is not ok bc what if you went to pee and your non signed up friend is there? Not being able to switch up whether it's a friend or employee is unreasonable. Reading between the lines, what's really going on is that you're mad because you can't get in bc people hire sitters. It's petty and I doubt that the theater cares. Bottom line is that you have the option of arriving at 5a or hiring someone to do it for you. SNL had a different policy bc they have many more people waiting and have stricter security measures but FYI, line sitters fill up the initial standby line. It's not until later that the actual people come. You sound like a crybaby who is upset that you get bested by others and want the whole system to change for you. If you want to go to the show, you know the game so play or take your ball and go home.

@Matt Rogers: RRT does not issue refunds or exchanges, however Ticketmaster does. Cancellation tickets are usually from Ticketmaster people who cancel. A lot come right before showtime and could be scalpers who were unable to sell, trying to get their money back at last minute.


@Hellob. I started to respond, but as I read on, your tone became more and more unneccesarily rude. So I'd just say thanks for responding.

My understanding is they are VIP tickets or house tickets

That too. I know for a fact standing room tickets are reserved for friends and family and sold when they go unclaimed. I heard the same thing about most tickets being Row J. Maybe standing room is reserved for cast and orchestra family and Row J goes to whoever Lin or a director or higher up wants to invite. So ultimately "cancellation tickets" are a culmination of a lot of leftover tickets: Unsold VIP, Ticketmaster cancellations, Unclaimed lottery tickets, and probably other situations.

Updated On: 2/17/16 at 09:06 PM