They've taken on corporate sponsors and as a result, several of the seats closest to the stage are reserved for them. When I sit on the line, I usually make an effort to get there early so that I am one of the first people on the line. But over the last few years, I've not received the best seats. So I don't even know if it's worth sitting in line anymore. For what it's worth, I was among the first twenty people yesterday and got awesome seats--Row D, center section, aisle. I noticed some of the people who waited around me also had similar, very good seats. So while it is random, sometimes the good seats do go to the people up front.
I counted a fair amount of empty seats at last night's performance, and I believe everybody on the standby line got in.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
