Have you or anyone you know ever forgotten that you had tickets to a show?

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Have you or anyone you know ever forgotten that you had tickets to a show?

Posted: 6/6/06 at 9:17pm

I just got an event reminder email from Ticketmaster reminding me that I have tickets to see the Les Mis tour this Sunday. While I didn't forget, it did catch me by surprise a bit--like, "Oh yeah, that's this week!" So have any of you or anyone you know actually forgotten that you had tickets to see a show? Let's hear your stories.

I'm reminded of that I Love Lucy episode where Lucy has evening tickets for The Most Happy Fella, only to realize at dinner that they were actually for the matinee. :)

re: Have you or anyone you know ever forgotten that you had tickets to a show?

Posted: 6/6/06 at 9:18pm

No, but I *have* been on my way to shows only to realize that the tickets were still sitting on my desk. More than once.

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Posted: 6/6/06 at 9:18pm

My friend's family got to Tarzan for the evening performance and had the usher tell them "Eek. You should've gotten here a little earlier!" They were for the matinee.

"I don't wanna see that!" -Aunt Sassy (as played by Valerie Cherish) on Room & Bored

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Posted: 6/6/06 at 9:19pm

I had tickets for a ballet once, a gift from one of my teachers. I forgot about them until the week before the performance and then realized that I had unwittingly tossed them out. My mother was not at all happy.

"I can't figure out what kind of life this is, comedy or tragedy, I just know it's showbiz. And what if I don't agree with the lines I have to read? They don't pay me enough, the way I see it."

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Posted: 6/6/06 at 9:20pm

I did--Jekyll & Hyde concert in Morristown, NJ. I had it in my calendar, but I had all my dates mixed up and thought the week we were in was actually a week earlier

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Posted: 6/6/06 at 9:23pm

I worked in the box office for one of the major road houses for broadway tours and every single night there would always be people with tickets for the wrong night, wrong show, or had forgotten them altogether. It was always a zoo!

The only experience I have ever had (knock on wood) with tickets is when I went to see the national tour of Parade when it premiered in Atlanta. My friend and I left NC that morning and it wasn't until we were in Atlanta that I realized that the tickets were back at my house. Luckily, everything turned out OK -- but it was a pretty stressful few hours!

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Posted: 6/6/06 at 9:28pm

Not exactly the same, but I had tickets to PHANTOM OF THE OPERA one night... Needless to say when I found out I could get a primo seat for THE BOY FROM OZ, I stood the masked man up

Besides, I had already seen it 6 times.

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

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Posted: 6/7/06 at 12:12am

Are you going to the Matinee or Evening performance? If matinee, I'll see you there!

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Posted: 6/7/06 at 12:16am

Broadway in Chicago calls you to ask you if you received your tickets.

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Posted: 6/7/06 at 12:23am

i completely spaced that I had bought tickets to Matt's last in Piazza. When a friend asked if I wanted to go upstate for the weekend I said sure without even thinking about it! Then i remembered later when i receieved my billing statement for that month and saw the charge. what a shock!

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Posted: 6/7/06 at 12:26am

I had tickets for Sweeney and Wicked on the same night once!

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Posted: 6/7/06 at 12:28am

Not being from New York, I am always suuuuper careful about remembering all that info, but I HAVE had dreams where I have the tickets but can't get to the theatre! Before I saw Wicked, I was soooo excited about seeing it (I had looked forward to it for months and just gotten through a very rough week of exams) and I kept dreaming that I got to the theatre too late and they wouldn't let me in. It was terrible! So I can imagine what it would feel like if you got the theatre, sans tickets!

"You know, a little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. Her adopted father was a powerful billionaire, so I supressed the urge to laugh in her face. But now, by gum, I think she might have been on to something!" --Reefer Madness

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Posted: 6/7/06 at 12:32am

We did it in March. Came back on Friday from a week in NYC seeing 4 shows. Completely forgot we had Saturday night tix to see the national tour of Millie in KC. Kicked ourselves Sunday morning!

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Posted: 6/7/06 at 12:33am

My aunt's friend had tickets to see Wicked in Florida and her husband thought the tickets were for April. Well April comes around and they take out the tickets and they were for a performance in February. My aunt told me that her friend made her husband take her to NY to see the show.

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Posted: 6/7/06 at 12:47am

I accidentally booked tickets for the Producers a week before I meant- and only found out when I went to pick up my tickets the following Saturday (when I thought they were).

Thank God for post-date tickets. I'd actually booked balcony, and because it was the middle of winter and attendance was down, I ended up in the first row of front mezz, on the side.

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Posted: 6/7/06 at 1:56am

well here's another question... have you ever been ditched to the theater??? i have friends who can't go at the last second or whatever and i've sat in the theater either by myself or i ended up paying for two tickets and just giving away the other for free... arggh!

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Posted: 6/7/06 at 5:53am

I didn't check the performance time on my tickets and showed up at the theater for a 7 PM performance of THE NUTCRACKER only to discover that the performance began at 5 PM that day! Ugh!

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Posted: 6/7/06 at 6:54am

For a performance of Woman in White, we are all sitting in Ben's Deli, having dinner before the evening performance, when my dad looks at the tickets and sees they were for the afternoon performance and that there was no evening performance that night! I was so pissed! But the tickets got redeemed!

...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

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Posted: 6/7/06 at 7:05am

Living far away from NYC, it's impossible for me to forget I have tickets to a show-we only see about 6 shows a year. On the day of a show, I'm obsessive-compulsive about the tickets, and haven't forgotten them yet, but...like another poster, I have had many dreams about losing tickets, getting to a show late, etc.

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