Pick Your Seat/See View from Seat

I totally agree.

Radio City does it too; when I went to the Tonys, it gave me a great idea of the view.

I would love this feature on Telecharge or something.

And, sidebar, how about no more shows sell their tickets through Ticketmaster? Telecharge is so much better.

I would actually prefer TIcketmaster over Telecharge any day. I find that telecharge nickels and dimes you more then ticketmaster does. For example, If I were to buy a ticket on my parent's card. I find it crazy that I would have to pay 4 bucks to set it up so that I could pick up the ticket under my name rather then the name on the card. With ticketmaster all you have to do is call them up and they do it for free.

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that might be true but with ticketmaster they tell you the price of the ticket...then a $2 charge and a $7 charge per ticket and then another charge when you get to the next screen and its way more confuzing than telecharge. instead of using your parent's card, what i used to do is load of those visa gift cards. you can put the tickets in your name without paying the $4 charge winston.

i completely agree with the seat view thing they should but then how would they sell the partial view tickets to unsuspecting customers? lol.

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The one thing I like about tickermaster better than telecharge is that they're easier to "trick".

Say I want a center orchestra seat to a ticketmaster show and I have a discount code. Tickermaster.com will only offer me partial view seats. But if I call and say "Hey, do you have any center orchestra seats for *blank* on *blank* day?" They say "Sure! I have a center seat in Row b! That'll be $125!" "Oh, I have a discount code." "No, problem." You get the orchestra seat for the discounted price.

But if you tried that with telecharge you lose the seat as soon as they enter in the discount code and they will only offer you less desirable seats.

That and the fact they'll mail you tickets at no charge are, for me, the only plus sides to ticketmaster.

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" wonder if you could get better "DISCOUNT" seats that way as well...not telling them about the code until they tell you what seats."

Sadly, it doesn't work that way. As soon as they enter the discount the original seats are no longer available. I've tried it. I've been offered wonderful seats for telecharge shows only to be told they are no longer available once I give them the discount code.

And ya'll can say what you want about people who only use discount codes. Personally, I think it's better to see 10 shows a year for, roughly, $65 than one or two for $125.

"I would prefer to be further back than off to the far side of the house any day."

Exactly, I don't mind the sides if I'm close to the aisle but the closer you get to the wall the worse your sight line is.

btw...broadwaybox.com has a wonderful feature where they show you exactly where your seats are. Just click on "Seating Chart & Directions". You'll be prompted to enter your row and seat numbers. It doesn't show you the sightlines but the actual location which is better than nothing at all.

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The Kennedy Center has a really good interactive seating chart. They also have view from seats. Here's a screenshot.

I often order tickets on-line so I can play around with different seats, but every time I have called, the people (at various companies) are always nice to me.
Sometimes if it is the first show I am planning my trip around, I'll say, I am here these four dates, can I get a seat in the first two rows...and they'll keep checking all the dates for me.

There used to be a website called Broadwayonline.com (it's still there but it hasn't been touched in years). They had this absolutely fabulous software package that allowed you to specify any seat in any theatre and it would show you the view of the stage from that seat. Then, just for the fun of it, you could turn the view around and see the seat from the stage. In fact, you could move the little characters on the stage around and see the seat from any point on the stage. I ALWAYS checked the view before buying any tickets. It continued to work for about a year after the site was abandoned and then it was removed altogether. I keep looking for it to appear somewhere else (Rob?!!!, Craig?!!!) but I haven't seen it for a few years now.

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