I've done the general rush twice. The first time was early in the run, and as this thread indicates, back then you could just walk up at ten o'clock and get tickets with no waiting. This was before the rush caught on. As more people started to learn about it, it became more competitive. And because it's general (not student) rush, there are more people to contend with. Also, they only reserve the 14 front row center seats, and once they're gone, that's it.
I rushed about a month ago. It was a Wednesday, so there were two performances (and a total of 28 tickets) available. I got on line just before 7:00 and was the second person and first for the matinee. By 8:30, the line was around the block and all tickets were accounted for. Judging my that experience, I'd say nowadays you need to be there by 8:00.
ETA: Good to see that they're doing rush loser seats now. That's always a smart idea if you have the seats to sell.
"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
Updated On: 8/3/11 at 10:50 AM
