Geekgirl, the band is on the even side. My friends and I saw it last weekend in BB2 - BB6, and it was awesome. I'd seen it before from the orchestra and my friends had never seen it, so I had to explain what was going on in And Then There Were None a little bit because the lyrics were hard to hear, but they got the rest of the show just fine. I definitely liked it better from the stage.
And anyone who is worried about the audience staring at you on the stage, most of my focus when I was in the orchestra was on the center of the stage, not the sides. BB2 is closest right stage seat to the audience, and it turned out my friend sitting there bumped into a couple people after the show he knew who were sitting in the orchestra that night, and they didn't see or notice him up there at all. They were surprised when we said we were in the stage seats. So I wouldn't worry about it too much. We waited at the stage door after the show, and while the cast was so nice!, they didn't notice we were in the stage seats either, ha ha, so you really won't be sitting in anyone's focal point. So the only concern you may have is that the wood chairs are kind of hard to sit in for 2 and a half hours!
"I thought that that was just going to be a like one shot deal for me, you know, but they kept talking about it like, 'when we do the production, when we do the production', and I was like, 'yes, yes, when you do the production, cool, I will come and see it'". - John Gallagher Jr. on SA
