Help with 54 Below tickets as holiday gift

Hi.

My nephew is a huge musical/Broadway fan and I'm taking him to New York in January to see some shows. It will be his first time out of Galveston, Texas and his parents who won't travel are paying his half. So I want to get him a holiday gift and have settled on tickets to a show at 54 Below which I've never been to and only discovered snooping through nephew's cd collection looking for ideas.

I want to book the Tony Winter WarmUp show on 1/8. The remaining options are main dining room or side view. How is side view here? Is it very obscured?

Also the show starts at 6. Doors at 5:15. Do you suggest eating dinner here or just doing drinks and grabbing dinner afterwards. The menu looks good but I'm having a hard time imagining trying to eat and enjoy the show and the tables look small and very close. Maybe I'm way off base and the food is as recommended as the entertainment.

Would appreciate any input.

The Bar Rail is an excellent place to see a show from, if you can get 2 seats. It's elevated and you don't have the problem of servers constantly walking in front of you as in the main dining room.

Thanks guys. Unfortunately the bar rail only has 1 seat left. VIP tables and premium are also sold out or unavailable. Main dining is further back and side view is right by the stage but it looks like a very small room so probably does not matter.



Ado Annie- good catch!

Excellent choice for a gift!. I agree with Marianne. Every time I have gone I was able to eat dinner before the show began.