Posted: 12/1/17 at 1:52pm
I rushed on a Saturday two weeks ago, and here's my experience.
On Friday night, I checked that the matinee show is almost sold out (~10 tickets left), and the night show is about 3 tickets left. So I was pretty sure that they will sell out since I am just looking for standing room tickets (People on this board mentioned that the view from the rush box seats are pretty obstructed, and the standing room has a much better view).
I arrived around 7:30am on sat, and was 6th in line. At around 9:30am, someone from the box office came out and said that for the matinee show there are three options: 8 rush tickets ($40 each), front orchestra side partial view ($75 each), and standing room ($47). For the evening, there's rush tickets and standing room.
When the box office opened, they separate people into two lines: one for matinee and one for evening. I went for the matinee line. Most of people in front of me were looking for rush tickets for the matinee show, when it got to my turn, they just started selling $75 partial view seats. However, they said that they have to sell all the $75 partial view tickets first before they can sell the standing room.. So I had to go to the end of the line.. While I was waiting in line, I found that I won lottery for another matinee show, so I went to the end of the line for the evening and was able to get two tickets for standing room.
In hindsight, I probably didn't need to go to the box office that early since I was just looking for standing room tickets (I think I will be able to get standing room tickets even if I arrive by 9:30 or 10am, since I had to go to back of the line anyway).
Hopefully, this helps.
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