Spring Awakening On-Stage Seating Stories- Page 3

Posted: 5/14/07 at 9:13pm

Oh well... I'm sure our seats will be great! Thanks for checking.

[hermionejuliet]

Posted: 5/14/07 at 9:16pm

It was up there this weekend. Maybe they are making some seating changes?

[bklynqt19862]

Posted: 5/14/07 at 9:17pm

During intermission, everyone on stage has to get up cause they change the set up on stage...funny story, the second time I sat onstage, I was sitting next to Skylar and next to him was Jonny B. Wright...during Mama Who Bore Me, I kept hearing them laughing and talking about Robi...and across the stage, I notice Robi laughing so hard he looked like he was crying...later after the show I asked Skylar what was so funny...he told me that Robi put so much hairspray in his hair that everytime he touched it, it made a cracking noise...

Posted: 5/14/07 at 9:22pm

Are there bathrooms near the stage or is there a separate one that people who sit onstage can go to? I just know that Broadway theaters tend to have very few bathrooms and if you don't get to one immediately, you miss the beginning of the second act!

[gymdudeva]

Posted: 5/14/07 at 9:53pm

As far as I know, there are just the regular bathrooms. When I have sat onstage, I just raced down the ailse way over and down to the men's room...there was a small line already, but...it's the MEN'S room, and it moved fast and I had plenty of time before act 2.

I always wonder if women ever miss act 2...there is always a HUGE line (at ANY show) that can't possibly end by the start of act 2....any women care to clear up this mystery?

Re: intermission: the onstage folkds must leave the stage at intermission for a set change (I think they change that platform thingy that is pulled up by chains in act one and floats forward in act two). It is kinda cool "taking our places" onstage before act 2...sorta feel like part of the show!

[gymdudeva]

Posted: 5/14/07 at 9:56pm

And so that onstage people dont' create too much of a disturbance if they DO have to *go*, they are requested to leave by a door at the front side of the stage.

Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:34pm

I've never missed the beginning of Act 2 (I'm a woman), but I have definitely come close. Whether we see a show here (Miami or Ft. Lauderdale) or in NYC, I always make a mad dash to the bathroom right as intermission starts. However, I did have some VERY close calls (making it back to my seat) when I was pregnant. I just know that many Broadway theaters have fewer and smaller bathrooms. I hope that when we see Spring Awakening I make it back in time! We're so excited to see this show and go back to NYC. This will be our son's first plane trip (no shows yet... he's 7.5 mos, although he loved Finding Nemo the Musical at Animal Kingdom ).

[gymdudeva]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 2:50pm

Yeah, I think 7.5 months old is a TAD young for Spring Awakening.

I wonder if shows hold the start of Act 2 until the ladies' room line is gone. Although some of those lines look about an hour long...

It seems like those older Broadway theatres have rather small restrooms...usually down a bunch of stairs!

Posted: 5/15/07 at 3:01pm

He has a good attention span, but we'll do a Disney musical when he's old enough . Until then, his Grandma will come into the city so we can catch up on some shows. We're still trying to decide what else to see (from this season's shows).

I just remember the bathroom at Studio 54 was a complete zoo. Hopefully the Eugene O'Neill will be better .

[usmma2010]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 10:47pm

ya the oniel's restrooms suck, my date missed the start of the 2nd act, and the ushers let her back down right befor dont do sadness

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:09pm

Even though I have the tiniest bladder in this world (which I only make even harder to deal with by the fact that I drink gallons of water each day) I rarely go to the bathroom at shows...I'm too impatient!! and I never want to risk missing the show!

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:20pm

Just out of curiosity, I recently purchased an onstage seat in row AA (seat 13) and I was wondering if that is a good place to sit. Having never sat onstage before, I'd be interested in hearing about anyone's experience from that area (view etc). Thanks!

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 5/15/07 at 11:30pm

If you have an onstage seat, and you're not back, they hold the show.
I was there once and these two guys couldn't get through the aisles back to their seats (old man standing up). Once they hit the the stage and were near their seats, the actors came out.

Intermission lasted about 20 minutes that night.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 12:30am

Spoilers???

1) Do all the actors come and sit onstage before the show starts? Or is it just the ensemble? And how long before do they do?

2) When are audience members allowed back onstage after the set is changed? Do you have to actually get off the stage or can you go backstage?

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 12:38am

Dreamcatcher---that's the exact seat I will be sitting in on August 22!!! So I, too, would like to know!!!

Possible spoilers? maybe....
When I saw it in march, the ensemble that sits in the seats came on before the show, some of them pushing it close to go time. the rest of the cast comes on when they should (Wendla being first)

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 12:45am

Haha, talk about coincidences. Mine are for the 23rd. :-P

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 12:46am

Anyone going Aug. 15th? I was gonna go Aug. 1st but the seat I found was taken.

[gymdudeva]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 10:13am

Dreamcatcher,

I have sat in AA13 twice (once again next week!). It's unique because it's a single seat....there are seats on either side of you, but they are not sold, and are empty until the show starts. Hmmm.... It's upstage, near the piano, so you get a great view of Georg's scenes with the piano teacher. As for the rest, it's pretty much like any other front-row onstage seat, which means very very close to the playing area. I sometimes fee a tad lonely in AA13 before the show and at injtermission, so I usually strike up a conversation with the people behind me or further down row AA. You don't have to sit down until the show starts.

MILLIE: The ensemble folks come out a few minutes before the show starts and pretend to be regular audience members. As for the cast, they come out all at once when the lights go down; those int he first scene take their places, and the rest fan out and sit in the empty onstage audience seats. At intermission, all onstage folks have to get off....they don't tell you when you can go back, but you can see them changing the set, so you know when they are done..it only take sthem about 5 mins to do that...also, by the time you go to the restroom adn get a drink, it's ok to go back....You can't go backstage...you just have to go back into the house with the commoners LOL

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 10:18am

I have AA13 too! It seemed like that was the only front row ticket available this summer, for some weeks in August.

Posted: 5/16/07 at 10:19am

Gymdudeva said:

"At intermission, all onstage folks have to get off."

I missed that last Sunday. It seems like I would have noticed it. Do they do it under their raincoats?

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:05am

Anyone going to the Aug 8 matinee? We have seats AA7 and 9.

[jeffrey1dog]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 11:17am

My friends & I have seat AA 3, 5, 7 & 9 for June 30 matinee.
I'm 6'3" and have big ass feet so I guess I better tuck them under the chair so I don't get stompped on by a cast member.

Anybody know which of these seats is most in the line fire... or are they all equally scary?

Updated On: 5/16/07 at 11:17 AM

[viola13]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 1:04pm

I was sitting in the single audience seat on the left side, in the front row. The top row was filled with a group of four people, with three on one side, the cast seats/aisle, and then one person on the other, with an empty "audience" seat next to her, which is Gerard's seat. When he came to take his seat, that woman and her friends tried so hard to get him to switch seats with one of the three other people, so the woman wouldn't have to sit by herself. Gerard just kept telling them that no, he was fine sitting in the corner, and no, they could keep the better seat, and that he likes sitting there. Finally, the woman gave up, and said to him "So you've seen this before? You like it?" By this point I was cracking up and Gerard could see that I was laughing and barely managed to keep a straight face when he said "Oh yeah, I've seen it quite a few times..."

[gymdudeva]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 1:24pm

viola: OMG, I would give anythign to have seen those people's faces when Gerard stood up and started singing!!!

jeffrey1dogThey are all just as scary! LOL I think AA7&9 may closest to Skylar's shenannigans...he is by far the "scariest" cast member!

tom14850 hahahah that is the audience participation part that they have kept a secret!

millie yeah, that seat (AA13) is more available than the others cuz it's always a single...i actually like having the cast on either side, and when they take away the empty chairs to use them on stage...well, you are REALLY out there alone!

The first time I saw the show was onstage, and I knew little about it (I hadn't even read this board!). When I saw the set-up, I almost peed in my pants!!! I had no idea the seats were THAT CLOSE!! I had to have two drinks at the bar before I could even walk up there!

[antonijan]

Posted: 5/16/07 at 2:56pm

is it better to see the show first on-stage or from the orchestra?

It is gonna be my first time to see it and I want my first screening to be very special...and also to experience the stage seating at the same time.

I was wondering if it's better to see it from orchestra first because the on-stage seats are "limited-view' and the dynamics of sound are different from both locations.