Seat Upgrades?

[chad2]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 6:10pm

Going to Sweeney on Saturday, and due to non-sellouts do they move people's seats? I am wondering if people know the policy about upgrading seats at shows. Any tips? I bought the cheapest seats a while ago....am i out of luck?

Also, can you exchange your ticket for a better ticket and add extra money?

[HughE2030]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 6:14pm

At intermission you move yourself to a better seat.

[chad2]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 6:15pm

what about before?

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 6:18pm

You should wait at least a half hour before you move and by that point, you minds well wait till intermission.

However, if you really, really want to move before intermission, (which I don't suggest), ONLY do it if you do not disturb others and you are very very quiet.

To not disturb others, you'd have to be sitting on the end of the row.

Best to wait until intermission.

[chad2]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 6:19pm

What about through the box office? Isn't it common to upgrade seats?

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 6:22pm

common? I don't think so.

If you wanted better seats, why didn't you buy them when you bought the tickets in the first place?

[chad2]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 6:27pm

i am cheap.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 6:28pm

Um, theatre tickets aren't exactly like last minute empty seats on an airplane.

Besides, had you 'upgraded' your seat before the show started only to realize that your 'upgraded' seat belonged to a latecomer, you're going to get a lot of angry people in your row when they have to let someone out to let someone in, in addition to the angry people in your 'actual' row to let you back in...

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 6:48pm

I thought one of the theater's policies was no ticket exchanges. If you find a better seat, I suggest moving at intermission. Where are your seats currently?

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 6:55pm

I assume by cheapest seat you mean the back of the mezzanine? Recently the mezzanine has been largely empty and the ushers have been moving everyone up when they're seated.

However if they don't tell you it's okay to change seats it's common curtesy to wait until intermission to move to a vacant seat.

And no, upgrading seats is not a common practice.

[April Saul]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 9:52pm

Okay, it is not common practice, but every once in a while, the person at the box office has helped me out. I had TDF tickets for the play Democracy a couple of years ago and very nicely asked if they had anything better, and they moved us up a half-dozen rows. When I saw Little Women, Sutton was ill and they told me I could either exchange my tickets for another date, or they'd move me up a dozen rows to the best seats they had. And in both these cases, I didn't pay anything extra. Most of the time, it doesn't happen, but it's always worth a try...and of course, after intermission, any open seat is fair game....

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 9:58pm

At Sweeney, it certainly is common. In fact, tickets have been selling so sparcely for the rear mezz that they just close it off and move everyone into the front.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 10:19pm

That happened to me too, April. My mom and I had tickets through TDF for Movin' Out last year, and jokingly she asked if they had anything better, and the guy was said "hold on" and bumped us from the mezz to orchestra.

[folkyboy]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 10:50pm

at the rate those seats are selling, i should see it again before it closes...

[Bdwy24]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 10:53pm

I work in a Box Office and It's not common, but it doesn't hurt to ask.....

You can also find a reason why you don't like your seat...
Be creative and come up with an excuse of why it's a bad seat... they always hold seats for "seat moves". lol (you must be creative though, lol)

or just wait until intermission.

[xM3L24x]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 10:56pm

"Seat moves" haha. I did not know about those.

[Bdwy24]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 11:04pm

hehe. The theatre I work at which is a theatre where the tours all come through we hold seats. Im guessing every theatre does which is why there are usually tickets for people in the "cancellation line". There's usually always seats to move people to if they aren't happy for whatever reason. (broken seat, etc.) And you have to move them SOMEWHERE, hehe.

[BwayLeadman]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 3:16am

JUST WAIT UNTIL INTERMISSION!!!!

[ProducersFan]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 3:19am

They did it with La Cage. I bought a last row mezz ticket for $25, then ended up being able to move 10 minutes before the show started to the 4th row - seats that normally sold for $62.25. It was fantastic.

[chad2]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 7:48am

I guess I will ask first...then see an usher. I am in Row E of the mezz, on the left.

[dirty rotten guy]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 7:58am

You are not entitled to better seats. If you wanted to be seated somewhere else you should have bought those seats, no one forced you to sit where you are. You really have no right to ask an usher to move you. If they chose to that’s good for you, but it certainly should not be expected. If you want to move at intermission to empty seats, then you have the right to ask an usher, and again, it is a privilege and should not just be expected. But, in any case, it is never right to move before intermission unless you are told to by an usher.

[madbrian]

Posted: 6/28/06 at 8:22am

This is what I've done - five minutes before curtain, if it is obvious that there are blocks of open seats, I've asked the usher if it was OK to move down. Once, the usher told me that a group was on its way in, so I thanked him and went back to my seat. Usually, the usher checks his/her watch, then tells me that it's OK.