Jersey Boys Partial View
Jersey Boys Partial View
#1Jersey Boys Partial View
Posted: 6/24/07 at 2:35pmWhat is up with the prices for Jersey Boys' partial view seats? Well my family wants to see it and the only thing available for when I want to go is Right Orch-partial, Row Y, Seats 2-6. How much would I miss or what is so bad that they are partial view?
Wicked63
Broadway Star Joined: 6/18/07
#2re: Jersey Boys Partial View
Posted: 6/24/07 at 2:40pmA lot of the show has action on an elevated walk way! This is the reason they have had trouble finding a suitable theatre in London.
#2re: Jersey Boys Partial View
Posted: 6/24/07 at 2:49pmI don't think partial view is ever a good buy. Especially when they charge top $$!
TampaNative
Understudy Joined: 6/27/06
#3re: Jersey Boys Partial View
Posted: 6/24/07 at 3:12pmSat in Row X, left Orchestra...could not see elevated walkway at all...
#4re: Jersey Boys Partial View
Posted: 6/24/07 at 5:24pm
It's basically the same at the Curran Theatre in SF. The rush seats in row B, which technically is their 1st row, is a pretty crummy view and you can go deaf from the speakers right above you. I've gone up front from my usual mid orchestra seats during intermission and saw that you can't even see much from the corners and immediately up front.
There were so-called "rush veterans" for the SF Jersey Boys plays that do nothing but brag about "seeing" the play over 10 times by purchasing rush tickets every week and telling the cast at the stage door that they were the biggest fans and that they deserved more perks than the theatre patrons that paid full price (of which I always do, but have no choice because I have no interest in watching only 25% of a play with partial view tix).
Everyone has their way of watching Broadway shows, and to each their own. Just don't think you're better than us just because you've been in the theatre more with cheap tix. Everyone that is a paying customer pays the cast's salary.....
#5re: Jersey Boys Partial View
Posted: 6/24/07 at 5:25pm
The rush seats in row B, which technically is their 1st row, is a pretty crummy view and you can go deaf from the speakers right above you.
If that were the case, I wouldn't keep going back. And the speakers aren't even in front of the front row. They're on the sides. I've sat in the corner Row D of the orchestra and had a much worse audio experience.
#6re: Jersey Boys Partial View
Posted: 6/24/07 at 5:29pmBut it's like that for every show with insane fans who sit in rush seats with a bad view. Sorry, but paying $25 every time to see a show is not keeping the show open, therefore you are not the biggest fan. If you were the biggest fan you would be shelling out $110 at every opportunity to keep to show running. I rush too, but I don't claim to be better than anyone, and I pay full price when I can.
#7re: Jersey Boys Partial View
Posted: 6/24/07 at 5:31pm
TOO true. 
And Jersey Boys fans are NOTHING compared to Rentheads.
(Although I suppose anyone who was at the May 3 SF performance would disagree, I suppose in terms of obnoxiousness.)
#8re: Jersey Boys Partial View
Posted: 6/24/07 at 5:39pm
Definitely, Lizzie! But I have a feeling Rentheads are going to be nothing compared to SA fangirls. On my way out last week a girl (with BAD BO) was claiming that Lea Michele was staring at her during "Whispering" again, and that John Gallagher was giving her dirty looks the whole time. She also claimed they racognized her horrendous pink pleather hat. I wanted to tell her "please, you think they give a sh!t about you?! Get over yourself"
Fangirls... ugh
#9re: Jersey Boys Partial View
Posted: 6/24/07 at 6:05pm
The incident that really ticked my family off was when we attended the Mother's Day show at the Curran Theatre. Before the show, I noticed two females that always rush the show getting access into the theatre before the house opened, while the ushers seemed to like the attention they were given by the females. While in the lobby, all they chatted loudly about was why "suckers" like us would purchase full price tickets and how "rushers" were better theatre fans than anyone else just because of how many times they entered the theatre for a specific show.
After the show, at the stage door, they were like blocking the alleyway as if to say "we're first" and bragged some more about how "Drew said this", "Steve waved at me", "Jeremy signed this", or "Jarrod posed with me"....., and other assorted crap to the effect of like "I've been here for over 10 shows and we're more important"..... My son, who's an actor in HS was disgusted and all he wanted to do was pose for a few pics, ask the cast courteously for autographs on his Playbill and some acting advice, but told me why some actors avoid the stage door due to those types of hangers-on and groupies.
I know that not all rush ticket fans are not like that, but why does it make them more important than all other fans? The groupie mentality is getting old and they should just grow up.....
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