Rush Drama

[legallybrown]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:14pm

A group of my friends lined up the day before for Haven!Elle on Saturday night. Crazy, yes. Unfair what happened the next morning? Yes. Let me tell you.
There were a large amount of people on the rush line at 12 oclock that Sunday morning. At 11:55 a group of people showed up. They were last in line. So tell me how these people got front row center seats? Apparently this happened again today.
Am I going crazy or is this not fair?
Has this happened at any other show before?

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:16pm

What seats did you guys get?

I thought all of the rush seats are the first two rows of the Orchestra.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:23pm

Yes, what seats did you get?

Just because you're in the front of the line, it doesn't mean that you're guaranteed the seats they promise.

Everything is subject to change.

[legallybrown]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:24pm

I didnt see it. I think they got side seats. These people have gotten them for the past 3 performances though without any rushing. Is this fair to others? This makes me not want to rush this show even more.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:26pm

Yeah, but they should be giving the most desirable seats to the people who were at the front of the line, not the back. Granted, how "unfair" this actually is of course depends on what seats the people at the front got. If they got like, last row balcony where the people who arrived at 11:55 got front row, I can understand complaining.

[alittleblonde]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:29pm

i was there on sunday as welllllll and i saw the same thing!! kk;; so, my friends and i camped out to get tickets to see HAVEN (who was amazing) and four people (no names) showed up 5 minutes before noon and got 8 tickets (4 for the mat/4 night) and they were aa101,103,105,107 for both shows. there's NO WAY that they should have got those tickets.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:33pm

Ok, but again, you left out the part about what seats you and your friends actually got.

[legallybrown]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:42pm

Ok So now I have all my information. My friends camped out and rushed all night, and they got A 107, 109, 111, and 113. The issue isn't who got what seats, the first two rows were still given out, as were side box seats. But the problem is that these four people who didn't rush got 4 front row seats for 3 shows without rushing. How/why were they able to do this?

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:44pm

Define the verb "rushing."

[tazber]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:45pm

OMG! Totally unfair!!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:46pm

They bought the rush seats at full price, you mean? Or they just got rush seats without being there early or camping out? Because even though it might seem unfair that people who didn't spend a night on the sidewalk got seats in the same row as your friends, there's nothing wrong with that. If there were still rush seats left when they arrived, why shouldn't they have gotten them? Because they weren't devoted enough to camp out? "Rush" and "camp out" are not synonymous. They were still rushing if they got there at 11:55. They just didn't get there insanely early.

Updated On: 3/5/08 at 10:46 PM

[legallybrown]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:47pm

i would define rushing as "getting to the box office before it opens and waiting for tickets"

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:48pm

Yeah, no.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:49pm

Well, by that definition, getting there at 11:55 on Sunday when it doesn't open until 12 noon IS rushing. They were there before it opened and waited for tickets. (the 5 minutes until the box office opened and for the line to go through)

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:50pm

"Camping out" is not a requirement for rushing. Rushing is anyone that shows up day-of and buys the discounted rush tickets. You can line up at midnight the night before or show up 10 minutes before curtain and it's still "rush tickets".

Camping out overnight is something Legally Blonde fans are only doing for bragging rights. If there's still 4 tickets left over 5 minutes before it opens, Legally Blonde (HavenElle or otherwise) is clearly not the Jersey Boys/Rent/Spamalot OBC-esque demand for rush; it's just a bunch of bored fans that need to stop trying to make it happen.

[legallybrown]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:51pm

ok well im done with this now. BUT they told people ahead of them in line that they were sold out for both shows.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:52pm

Funny how the story keeps changing as it goes on...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:53pm

If the box office was holding these seats for specific people while denying them to others, then that's another issue. But that wasn't the case and you're just pissed that they got great seats without having to wait as long as you did, well, too bad.

Updated On: 3/5/08 at 10:53 PM

[PrincessSparkle]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:53pm

The issue isn't that they got tickets... right legallybrown? It's the fact that they got, arguably, the best seats in the theatre (or at least the seats that should be going to, and normally do, go to the first people in line) when they were not in that position in the line. If it had been 11:55 and they got the tickets that the people at 11:55 in line deserved, it wouldn't be an issue.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that that was the issue here.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:54pm

When I rushed it, it seems like they did give the side seats first. Given the height of the stage, the angle from being on the side seemed to give a slightly better view, IMHO.

[KeepCool]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:55pm

I don't know anyone else on this thread, but I was there Sunday as well. What the problem is, to my knowledge, is that they told people on line for tickets that they were "sold out" and had no more tickets to give, and then gave the front row seats for both shows to these four people, who were online BEHIND other people who did not get tickets.

A friend of mine was at the show tonight, and said that these same four people were sitting in the front row seats again tonight, and were not on the "rush line" this morning either.

I think that is what people are finding issue with. That four people, seemingly, had these tickets set aside for them for three shows, and were able to get them even after the general public was told there were no more rush seats.

[snl89]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:55pm

I must say, I kind of have to agree with Emcee on this one. I mean, if those people were given priority over other people on the line who had been waiting (as in, if they were intentionally given better tickets for some reason), THEN that would be very unfair. But if they showed up right as rush tickets were being given out and those were the tickets that were available, how is that really unfair? I can understand why it would be dissapointing for those who had been waiting for so long to know that they would have been able to get tickets without such effort, but it doesn't mean the other people did anything wrong. It just means they took a chance in not going and waiting, and it happened to pay off for them. That's the thing with rush- those things can happen. It's first come first serve, but if there's lots of tickets to be served, everyone gets a good deal :)


Again though, if those people were given priority, that's not cool. The best tickets SHOULD go to the first people in line.

[legallybrown]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:55pm

That is the issue! AND they see the show 3 times a week and now suddenly done show up for rush but still get the seats that they ALWAYS sit in.

I dont think anybody understands.

[Revolutionary]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:56pm

Wow, I can't believe people camp out overnight to rush Legally Blonde. Now that's f-ing crazy. Shoot...

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/5/08 at 10:56pm

Well, maybe if you had been clearer the first time, people would have understood sooner.

That's unfair. The box office shouldn't be saving seats for the regulars and telling other people they're sold out.

Updated On: 3/5/08 at 10:56 PM