Shakespeare in the Park Lines — Page 7

Fair point, ghostlight, and I suppose that's true; it'd be the same volume if people trickled in over the wee hours or they all flooded in simultaneously at 7:00 a.m. I'm still just irritated by this "we need to camp out!" precedent because it makes arriving before the sun even comes up too late. Oy. vey. It's also sad to me that people waited until the last minute. Where were people who are so obsessed with seeing it NOW all month? I'll admit that having seen it at three very different intervals and how far it's come, I sort of understand why people wait, but at the same time, I feel like if you were legitimately excited about this production and not waffling on the "Oh I'm gonna wait for the reviews" bandwagon, you would have gone as soon as possible, rain or shine, with critics' approval or not.

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Updated On: 7/10/09 at 02:22 PM

I hear ya, emcee.

Sorry, DCR, I forgot the emoticon. But seriously, this?

"Wow, someone must really hate me. I can never seem to see the show".

and this?

"I lost the Virtual Line again. Ridiculous".

makes it sound as the you lay the blame on your not seeing the show at someone else's feet. I have entered the virtual line every single day and haven't won once. I never once committed my whole day, in fact, I never committed more than a few hours altogether to attend. I did take chances, I did get wet, and I did get rained out once. You're telling me you couldn't try standby even twice early on? Because if you had shown up on any of those seven nights, you would have gotten in. At eight pm.

Just sayin'.

eta: Millie, I am truly sorry to hear that.

Updated On: 7/10/09 at 02:25 PM

Well, both my sister and I have tried multiple times to get tickets and have failed all those times. We weren't able to see the show early in the run (first she was busy, then I was out of town, etc.) and yes we could have seen it separately but for us it's more important to see it together -- the play itself isn't the full experience, it's the fact that we're sharing that experience together.

Anyways, so now we have to camp out to get tickets and we don't see anything wrong with this. If this is what we need to do, for whatever reason, then it just becomes part of the experience. We're trying to make the wait fun and comfortable. We realize that we could have seen it earlier and chose not to, so now we're taking it as it comes.

I know that it is a luxury (and actually great coincidence) that we will be able to camp out tonight in order to get tickets for tomorrow and not everyone is able to do that, but we are so we're doing it. I don't think there's any reason to get all angry about it. We all chose to not see it earlier, for whatever reason, and now it's come down to this.

All of that said, anybody who will be there overnight tonight, prepare for fun times! Pizza, singalongs, whatever.

I'd argue the point that it would be better to have seen it separately than to chance never seeing it at all. I will say that while I have never cared whether I was seated next to a companion during a show I recognize that it is nice to have someone to talk with it about once it's over.

I wish you and your sister the very best of luck. Please be safe, and hope to see you there.

Tomorrow? Summer sponsor, before an actor ever set foot on stage.

The previous ones? The good old-fashioned way.

eta: And I have the mildewed clothes to prove it.

Updated On: 7/10/09 at 02:43 PM

Yeah, ghostlight get off my back.

I wasn't blaming anyone. I just said I can seem to get into the show.

I wasn't able to see the show earlier in the run because of a little thing called school. I didn't get out of school until June 26th, more than halfway through the run. Then the week after that I was away. I only had this week to enter and I have still had plans. I have entered the virtual line every day and I waited in line for 5 hours yesterday.

So don't give me that crap, you don't have to be so nasty. I never did anything to you so go take the stick out of your @$$

All good excuses, Chita. An education is very important, and I'm glad you have your priorities straight. I refer you to my earlier disclaimer:

"If you really, truly, couldn't have tried before, then I am sorry for you". And I am. Perhaps I shouldn't have singled you out, so I'll apologize for that too. I will tell you that I literally lit incense for you and sent positive vibes your way yesterday when you said you were in line, and was happy when you didn't post last night, because I thought that meant you got in.

And truthfully, I don't think I was nasty to you. Certainly nowhere as nasty as:

"...so go take the stick out of your @$$".

Points for really nice use of alternative keys, though.

I've been known to skip classes for the purposes of attending theater.

Geez, kids today!

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Updated On: 7/10/09 at 03:13 PM

Marco I posted this earlier about today and this weekend:

"I can tell you that today the cut off point in the line was 4:00 am. After they walked the people into the park they sent anyone who got there after 8 home, telling them they most likely would not get tickets. Also the first person in like got there at 9:30 pm last night. So it looks like if you want to see the last 3 shows this weekend you will be spending the night in the park."

This weekend will be crazy!

Marco, before the park opens the line forms on Central Park West at the 81st Street entrance.

Wow, do you all really think people will be lining up like, before midnight? I don't even know what to advise my friends to do. I really wonder how many people are actually willing to camp out. I would hate for my friends to go up there in the middle of the night and have 200 people already on line. For those who have done the line more recently (I haven't since mid-June), 200 is about the cut-off, or is it higher?

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Updated On: 7/10/09 at 04:45 PM

One of the security people said that the once ran out of tix for the senior line and this one guy who did not get tickets was so angry that he cursed the poor usher's family and unborne child. Talk about being childish! :)

Well..I will be there around 2am Sunday morning. I sure hope that will be enough!

Since they distribute tix in a truly random fashion these days, I guess it doesn't really matter how far back in the line I'll be so long as I'm before the cut off point.

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