Premium Rush - CHESS Issue

[quizking101]

Posted: 12/10/25 at 6:00pm

I’m kind of over the idea of two tiers of rush - a regular and a “premium” rush, the latter usually being $20-30 more. It seems like it defeats the entire purpose of rush to begin with. When you’re offering a “premium rush” for $99, but not actually getting one of the premium seats (happened to me an others before), it just seems silly. (And yes, I’m aware that shows are under no obligation to offer rush/lotto/comps etc).

I say this because I almost got conned at the Imperial box office for CHESS today. The lady asked me if I was filming her (because my phone was out for tap to pay and the Telecharge map) and then tried to charge me $79 for what was actually a $59 partial view orchestra seat. (With fees, it was $74 on Telecharge.) Her response was “well, maybe you should just buy that one then. So I told her to nix the premium rush and I will only pay for the seat for the $59 value and, defeated, looked at me and said “good catch”.

I emailed TC to let them know, but if you are rushing CHESS in person, check the Telecharge map before you go up. Face value drops for most partial view (which aren’t bad at all) seats in the 24 hours before curtain. You may prevent getting yourself hustled.