Jersey Boys Rush..Beware! — Page 2

Michael was fantastic tonight. He was definitely nervous a little bit at the beginning because a few notes were just a tad sharp, but the last couple of songs in Act 1 were perfect and he was completely warmed up by Act 2...excellent! His "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" brought the house down. I consider myself very fortunate to have heard Michael sing this score live. Very impressive. If any of you feel like waking up early to rush tomorrow afternoon's show, it is definitely worth your time. Michael will be going on tomorrow at 2pm. I also feel fortunate to have seen all three actors as Frankie Valli. I will probably see it with JLY one more time post Tonys. If any of you go to tomorrow afternoon's performance, let us know how it went! Thanks!

Updated On: 7/1/06 at 01:03 AM

Glad you had a great time. Now I have to decide whether I want to rush the matinee. Of course still being up at 4AM doesn't make it look good!

To all of you rushers: If I want to student rush on July 4th, do they start selling them at 3:30 since the show is at 7?

WaT...thanks for the review about Michael!! How would you rank the three Frankies? Michael is the only one I haven't seen and I really want to because, along with what you just posted, I hear he is fantastic.

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Thanks! I have some friends who are in line right now to catch the 2pm show. I'm a little jealous I cannot be amongst them, they are excited to see Michael go on...

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When purchasing the rush tickets I understand it is limited to two per person. When you're buying the tickets, if another person is watching the show with you, do they have to be present at the box office as well? My situation is, my sister and I want to see the show, but she doesn't get out of her camp until 12. I was planning to go to the box office myself and wait in line, but I was wondering if she had to be with me or not.

Thanks popular_elphie! I absolutely love your JB fansite!

I'm not a fan of the projection screens. The only ones that are of any interest to me are the ones that denote the season changes, and the ones for the TV performances.

I love the rush seats, and love that they're so close up. I'm so happy that we love a show that has some good rush seats!

And thank you for your compliment, smashingasian! It means very much to me :).

if you're there by 7:45am, you might get two SRO tickets for the matinee for you and your mom. if not, you'll defintiely be fine for Rush tickets for the evening show. good luck!

me too. i much prefer to attend evening shows!

I did rush for the first time Wednesday and I got seat A2. Even though the staircase was quite distracting, the seat was amazing! Michael was on for John that day and in the beginning when he's sitting on the staircase I was tempted to reach out and touch him! Of course I kept my hands to myself and enjoyed the rest of the performance haha

Even though getting up early to go to the city was a pain, it was totally worth it in the end! I really want to do rush again except in the evening. I'm just wondering what time I should get there.

What do you do there kenmarksnj? Next time I do rush I'll keep an eye out for you lol

In my opinion, I really don't think theres such a thing as the "best" rush seats. However, sitting on the left side is much better than being caught behind the staircase on the right. I honestly don't care where I sit because I'm just glad to be seeing the show. Depending on what number you are on line also depends on where you sit. Whatever seat the ticket holder gives you is what you get, unless you ask them for another one.

Time varies on the days of the week. I'm not too sure about Sunday shows, but Saturday can be pretty crazy considering it's the weekend and all. For a Saturday matinee I'd suggest maybe around 7 AM, and for evening, around 4 hours before they go on sale (go on sale at 4:30 pm)Try Wednesday, not too busy because it's during the week. I did it and got to the theatre at 7 and was second in line. Well worth the wait.

"Michael was on for John that day and in the beginning when he's sitting on the staircase I was tempted to reach out and touch him!"

That's really funny smashingasian, cause when me and my sister were in A2 and A4 in April and John came out and sat there she started shaking cause he was right there and she just wanted to shout his name out or touch him. She was even more shocked when at the end of "Walk Like A Man", Daniel walked over and pointed to her, we found at the stage door that he pointed to her because she was wearing a Michigan University shirt and that's where he went.

I'm going back in August and my sister said she was going to get us all up at 4am, so that we can leave for the train into the city by 6am.
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