Lotto/SRO Advice for Hedwig- Page 3

[thebeautyis3]

Posted: 5/16/14 at 2:23pm

So people start lining up for SRO before the lotto is pulled? (My friend was under the impression they didn't line up until after the lotto, for whatever reason.) Is there a time anyone would recommend for arriving on Sunday? And when do SRO tickets go on sale? 45 mins before curtain? (I feel like I read that somewhere.) Thanks!

[LuminousBeing]

Posted: 5/16/14 at 2:52pm

Nearly 3:00 and there are only 3 of us here, but the guy lining up next to me says he arrived at 2:30 yesterday and was 15th in line and didn't get a ticket. Seems like a crapshoot.


Twenty minutes later, and there are now 8 people on line. Almost all the tickets are now spoken for for tonight (they're selling 16 tonight).
Updated On: 5/16/14 at 02:52 PM

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 5/16/14 at 3:23pm

Thanks so much for your updates, they're much appreciated! I plan to go next week and will be doing the same. Good luck on lotto too if you're entering.

[LuminousBeing]

Posted: 5/16/14 at 4:46pm

Thanks, and you're welcome! Btw, no one said anything to us about needing to stand: everyone under the awning is sitting and we're as comfortable as these things ever are.

[darreyl102]

Posted: 5/16/14 at 7:31pm

I always go around and collect the playbills that people leave on the floor when the show is over- I mean why not? a lot of the times, the staff actually end up thanking me or helping me out for doing their job.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/16/14 at 7:42pm

"I always go around and collect the playbills that people leave on the floor when the show is over-"

Always? how often do you go? How many times have you seen it? I could never afford to see it frequently.

[haterobics]

Posted: 5/16/14 at 8:18pm

Jane and I originally thought people were entering the orchestra before the show and grabbing the Hurt Locker playbills from under seats before those patrons even arrived. That was what seemed rude.

After the show, you're just volunteering to help clean the theater, have at it!

[darreyl102]

Posted: 5/16/14 at 8:20pm

Let me be more specific- every show I see, I go around and pick up the discarded playbills

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/16/14 at 8:24pm

"Jane and I originally thought people were entering the orchestra before the show and grabbing the Hurt Locker playbills from under seats before those patrons even arrived."

There are people who actually do that, haterobics. They deserve to be reamed out by the ushers. After the show, very different. You're a garbage picker, lol!

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/16/14 at 8:25pm

"Let me be more specific- every show I see, I go around and pick up the discarded playbills"

Ah, I see. Thanks.

[LuminousBeing]

Posted: 5/16/14 at 11:51pm

SRO spot 101 was dead center and awesome. The staff was strict about cell phone use, but in an efficient professional way, not obnoxious. No one gave us any flak about sitting in line or anything, and even let us sit under the awning during the rain. Overall, a great experience! I looked around for Hurt Locker Playbills, but didn't find any.

[haterobics]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 12:00am

"The staff was strict about cell phone use, but in an efficient professional way, not obnoxious."

What does this mean? During the show?!

[LuminousBeing]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 12:24am

No, beforehand. Shining flashlights and firmly telling folks their phones must be out of sight and silent. There wasn't a single phone ring the entire show, and as far as I could see, no phone lights. They were also great about getting people back to seats during applause breaks (lots of people getting up during the show) so as not to distract during the patter or songs.

[haterobics]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 12:29am

Oh, OK.

I'm still baffled by all of the bathroom activity for this 90 minute show. It is pretty rare for people to get up during a two act musical, but it seems constant at Hedwig for whatever reason... unless I just tend to get seats closer to the stage and this stuff is going on behind me all the time?!

[LuminousBeing]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 12:31am

There were about fifteen different people getting up, some from what I assume are premium seats. The time flew by for me, even standing. The SRO view was fantastic and I actually preferred it to a seat with heads in the way!

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 12:38am

Let me be more specific- every show I see, I go around and pick up the discarded playbills


Exactly. And how would you be able to do that BEFORE the show, anyway? Grab the stacks behind the ushers? Take them out of other patrons' hands? I'm not even sure how people's minds gravitated toward thinking that's what I was doing with the Hurt Locker playbills.

Updated On: 5/17/14 at 12:38 AM

[brdway411]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 12:54am

Here is a thread I started on the same topic around the same time.
Headwig advice.

[haterobics]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 1:16am

"Exactly. And how would you be able to do that BEFORE the show, anyway? Grab the stacks behind the ushers? Take them out of other patrons' hands? I'm not even sure how people's minds gravitated toward thinking that's what I was doing with the Hurt Locker playbills."

First, the Hurt Locker playbills are distributed throughout the house in advance, as I understand it, so before the show is when they would presumably be most readily available.

Beyond that, you replied to someone who was, as I understand their post, trying to collect them before the show, before people had been seated, and who was told not to by the theater staff... to which you said you had no problem, you were able to get 6-7 without them bothering you.

Which makes sense now, since they should prevent people from scooping them all up before the show and not care what happens afterward.

So, that seems to be a pretty direct thought process.

[brdway411]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 1:20am

When we went a few weeks ago, my friend and I each grabbed one for our selves. The usher yelled at my friend and said you 2 can share. We informed her we did not live together or that would have been fine. So yes, they do watch out for people grabbing extras before the show.

[darreyl102]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 3:53am

I wonder if the staff will trip about me having my MP3 Player out before the show. I always do that- with my earbuds in of course so it doesn't bother anyone around me and I turn it off before the show starts. I wonder this, because if I am yelled at by a staff member, I might have a few words to say back to them. LOL

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 8:29am

"Exactly. And how would you be able to do that BEFORE the show, anyway? Grab the stacks behind the ushers? Take them out of other patrons' hands? "I'm not even sure how people's minds gravitated toward thinking that's what I was doing with the Hurt Locker playbills."

Seriously? The Hurt Locker Playbills are already placed around the house BEFORE you enter. After entering, and before curtain, said patron walks around theater scavenging for said playbills.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 8:33am

'I might have a few words to say back to them. LOL"

Really? And what would those words be?

Updated On: 5/17/14 at 08:33 AM

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 11:01pm

I walked through the orchestra after tonight's show looking for a Hurt Locker playbill. An usher came up to me and said, "Would you like this?" as she handed me one. The staff that I encountered was very kind and helpful.

[haterobics]

Posted: 5/17/14 at 11:09pm

There is an usher at the Belasco who remembers me from who knows what show at this point. She said hi and we chatted when I first came to see Twelfth Night (so she saw me at something even before then...), then again at Richard III, then Twelfth Night for a second time, then Hedwig in previews... I've never had an issue with them, they've always been perfect.

[Visceral_Fella]

Posted: 5/18/14 at 12:35am

Got there at 12:15 for the 10PM show that was entirely too early. The next person for the 10PM show got there at 4:15.

23 SRO seats were given away for the 7PM, and only 9 were given away for the 10PM show so it varies.

Any other questions about the process?