1) They're balcony, but they're not terrible, and you can probably move down to mezzanine at intermission
2) As long as you have a student ID, you can get two tickets- it doesn't matter who the second one is for, so it could be for your mom.
P.S. You might get yelled at because there are 43809230 threads about this on the board already.
P.P.S. I hope you enjoy it!
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.