Posted: 4/21/26 at 4:44pm
Fair, or not?
What is the reasoning behind it?
I find it disrespectful.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 5:01pm
Capitalism respects no one but the unholy dollar.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 5:14pm
As a solo theater goer I naturally hate it.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 5:21pm
It's terrible. And, makes absolutely no sense at all.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 5:26pm
It is harder to sell a single seat than two, so they would rather take the chance of denying the sale to the solo. I go solo to Broadway so I would not like this if I saw this. Yankee Stadium has this rule I think.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 5:29pm
What ticketing service is pulling this crap? Have never seen it before.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 5:33pm
Sometimes you can call and get them to sell you a single seat over the phone. I've gotten lucky doing that.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 5:35pm
I usually buy singles and have yet to run into this issue. What site is not letting you purchase a single?
Posted: 4/21/26 at 5:45pm
I go single most times and can’t remember ever having a problem
Posted: 4/21/26 at 6:06pm
99.9% of my theatre visits are solo. I have yet to have an issue
Posted: 4/21/26 at 6:08pm
Maybe actual Broadway is exempt.
Telecharge don't seem to do it. Ticketmaster most certainly do.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 6:14pm
Ticketmaster or Telecharge used to have this policy which never came back after Covid, so this problem doen't exist anymore. And private businesses don't care about you feeling "disrespected", you can buy your tickets elsewhere if that's the real issue.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 6:20pm
Huss417 said: "I usually buy singles and have yet to run into this issue. What site is not letting you purchase a single?"
Ticketmaster does this. When you have a monopoly you can get away with it.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 6:21pm
Ignore Sutton. Ticketmaster still do it.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 6:25pm
For what, concerts? Because plenty of people bought singles to The Last 5 Years and that was on Ticketmaster.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 6:36pm
Not just concerts. Hamilton in Chicago, to give a hypothetical scenario.
It's still possible to buy single seats, so long as you don't leave a single seat behind.
For clarification.
For fussy people who buy late, it can cause problems.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 6:44pm
Sutton Ross said: "Ticketmaster or Telecharge used to have this policy which never came back after Covid, so this problem doen't exist anymore. And private businesses don't care about you feeling "disrespected", you can buy your tickets elsewhere if that's the real issue."
Damn, babe. You managed to get my last comment to you deleted in record time. Which administrator are you married to?
Posted: 4/21/26 at 7:18pm
Jay Lerner-Z said: "Not just concerts. Hamilton in Chicago, to give a hypothetical scenario.
It's still possible to buy single seats, so long as you don'tleavea single seat behind.
For clarification.
For fussy people who buy late, it can cause problems."
I bought a single seat for Hamilton in Chicago so my best friend could see Joshua Henry be brilliant just fine. People perhaps should stop being "fussy", if this is still an actual issue on Ticketmaster. But I don't believe any Broadway tickets are sold on Ticketmaster anymore as their main ticketing source.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 8:18pm
I still run into that issue on Ticketmaster but thankfully they're not an official theatre source anymore.
Posted: 4/21/26 at 8:20pm
I have at times been able to work around this as follows:
1. Open a separate browser and HOLD the 2 seats next to the single seat.
2. Go back to your regularly scheduled browser window and buy the single seat.
Hope this helps someone :)
Posted: 4/21/26 at 9:01pm
Genius, mlledir!
Thank you.
EDIT Wait… if there's three seats together and I want one, I wouldn't be leaving a single seat anyway…?
Updated On: 4/21/26 at 09:01 PM
Posted: 4/21/26 at 9:37pm
I love you, Jay Lerner Z. Never change! (no sarcasm intended)
Updated On: 4/21/26 at 09:37 PM
Posted: 4/21/26 at 9:54pm
Jay Lerner-Z said: "Genius, mlledir!
Thank you.
EDIT Wait… if there's three seats together and I want one, I wouldn't be leaving a single seat anyway…?"
It works if you want a one of a pair or perhaps 3 seats when there are four. Just open a separate browser and click on the unwanted seat Ticketmaster holds that seat for about 10 minutes so you can go and buy the ones you want
Posted: 4/22/26 at 1:44am
Hideous nearly all theatre's do it here in Australia. I do the trick above with another browser open. It ****s me no end
Posted: 4/24/26 at 12:55pm
I don't think some of you understand what the OP is saying. They are not stating you can't buy a single seat if you are solo. Of course that is allowed. What they are saying is it won't allow you to LEAVE a one seat gap between you and the next patron. So if Seat 1 and 2 are sold, and seats 3,4,5,6 are unsold. You can't purchase seats 4 and 5 and let set 3 by itself on an island. You MUST buy seats 3 and 4 so that 5 and 6 are together as a pair, or buy seats 5 and 6 so that 3 and 4 remain as a pair. If you were purchasing as a solo patron, you could be allowed to buy seat 3 or 6 in that scenario above.
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