I NEED HELP!
I NEED HELP!
Joined: 12/31/69
#0I NEED HELP!
Posted: 8/23/06 at 12:27pm
I have no student id with me here in New York and I am dying to see a show but don't wanna shell out the outrageous prices.
I have the entire list of rushes and things from TalkinBroadway, but I need to find a show that won't matter on student id, I know I'm like smacking myself in the head, but I need to know.
#1re: I NEED HELP!
Posted: 8/23/06 at 12:29pmChicago has a general rush, but it's probably a little crazy now that Usher is in the show. That and all of the shows with lotteries do not necessitate a student id.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: I NEED HELP!
Posted: 8/23/06 at 12:38pmWell then do some lotto hopping. Is that a real term? Oh well, find which lotto has the earliest name collection time, down to the lotto that has the latest name collection time.
#5re: I NEED HELP!
Posted: 8/23/06 at 12:39pm
Color Purple is also general rush. If you look like a student they may not ask at some shows sop its worth just to try. I rarely have to show Id because I look so young. I didn't have to show it at The Wedding Singer or Jersey Boys off the top of my head. Also for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels lottery you not have to even play, juts go pick up the rush seats. Standing Room os also an option.
Updated On: 8/23/06 at 12:39 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: I NEED HELP!
Posted: 8/23/06 at 12:42pm
I look young enough to be a student {i am one, I'm gonna be a senior.}and I wanna see The Wedding Singer, so maybe like Just_John said I can go and just get the tickets for being young.
Updated On: 8/23/06 at 12:42 PM
#7re: I NEED HELP!
Posted: 8/23/06 at 1:10pmIf it helps, they don't check your student ID when student rushing at Sweeney.
...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...
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#8re: I NEED HELP!
Posted: 8/23/06 at 1:11pm
A senior in H.S.? If you have something with your bday on it, you can point out your age and that you'd obviously be in school, and maybe they will let you slide. I'm not sure though.
Lottos and general rushes are always options as well.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#9re: I NEED HELP!
Posted: 8/23/06 at 1:15pm
In a similar vein...
Has anyone ever gotten away with getting student rush tickets using an ID that is no longer valid? I am a student, but the only form of student ID I have is one that I got for doing a course at a university this summer. On the front of the ID it says "Valid SM '06" (meaning, of course, "Summer 2006"), and obviously I'm running out of time to use it--probably won't be able to before the summer is up. Do you think I could get away with using it the rest of this year (and maybe even next year), at least at certain shows? I don't look like I'm out of college, so nobody is really going to think I'm no longer a student, but will they still be strict about an expired student ID?
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
Updated On: 8/23/06 at 01:15 PM
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#10re: I NEED HELP!
Posted: 8/23/06 at 2:08pmI think you can get fake ones in China town. Fake NYU ones, or where-ever. Heck you could even make one. They all look different.
SDav 10495
Broadway Star Joined: 7/21/06
#11re: I NEED HELP!
Posted: 8/23/06 at 3:37pm
Heh...when you think about why those are normally bought, I would look like a friggin angel. If I get busted, somehow I don't think the cop will believe "I just wanna see Patti LuPone!". 
For real, though, unless I do get a fake student ID (not a terrible idea, thanks), has anyone gotten away with a real, expired one?
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
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