Sunset Boulevard Revival Broadway Thread — Page 38

chernjam said: "Oh and the group trip to see Sunset - I'd love to be in with you all. Would be fun to meet you all. I'm hoping to make my second visit this Saturday afternoon"

Only your second? I'm a bit shocked!

Might anyone else be at the evening performance on Saturday, April 29?

GiantsInTheSky2 said: "Someone on eBay is currently a selling a Sunset lot with a playbill/ticket stub/bag and the new souvenir "photo book" so I'm assuming they have started to sell it at the theater. "



They've been selling it at the theater for the past few weeks. It was available the last time I went at the end of March.

CT2NYC said: "I don't use Ticketmaster very often, so I had no idea it wasn't always an option. I do "Will Call" because I like to have a physical ticket to keep as a souvenir. It probably offered the option because I bought the ticket close to the performance. It was within a week, if I remember correctly."

I'm the same way; I never choose the "Print at Home" option because I want a physical ticket for my collection. I have never seen a "Will Call" option from Ticketmaster (only from Telecharge), but I'm not sure whether I've ever purchased within a week of the show date.

Anyone else have any experience with this?

Lot666 said: "chernjam said: "...
Only your second? I'm a bit shocked!

Might anyone else be at the evening performance on Saturday, April 29?

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Tell me about it Lot! Sadly between work and crazy, crazy hours - as well as a chronic medical thing that has been acting up for the last few months, I've been a bit gun shy and unavailable to buy tickets as often as I wanted (and the one week I was free/available, the tix they had left were really crap seats)

carnzee said: "^^ I just chose print at home, even though I don't like it, because I'm going in two weeks and didn't want to wait for them to mail. There was no option for will call, but just out of curiosity, I looked at tomorrow's performance of Present Laughter, and Will call was offered. Either some shows offer it or it's only offered close to the date. Frustrating. One reason I prefer Telecharge, though I hate how glitchy it is."

Thanks for sharing this information; it seems that CT2NYC's theory is probably correct (Will Call is only offered when the show date is within a certain window, maybe a week).

I, too, greatly prefer Telecharge. I have had repeated problems with Ticketmaster pages loading very slowly or not at all, and often cannot get the venue map to display to select my seats. It seems particularly problematic in Chrome (my preferred browser), so I sometimes have to grudgingly switch to IE to get anything done, but even IE fails sometimes.

I think you should go see it twice on the same day. Once is not enough! I've seen it 4x already and someone I know saw it 28x.

AHHH! They're really tempting me now. I just checked Ticketmaster for the April 29 matinee and they've dropped the price of several seats in the front orchestra from $299 to $199 (no code needed). I can't figure out the logic behind it, however; the lower-priced seats seem totally random. And while it's good news for me, it makes me worry that sales are slipping (because I was hoping for an extension).

Lot666 said: "AHHH! They're really tempting me now. I just checked Ticketmaster for the April 29 matinee and they've dropped the price of several seats in the front orchestra from $299 to $199 (no code needed). I can't figure out the logic behind it, however; the lower-priced seats seem totally random. And while it's good news for me, it makes me worry that sales are slipping (because I was hoping for an extension).

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Don't read anything into it Lot666- this has been going on since it opened. The "premium prices" as the dates get closer and seats remain tend to go to $199 (thats why I always encourage Wednesdays if people want to get tickets... most shows are readily available that day and there's usually good seats)

Lot666 said: "chernjam said: "Don't read anything into it Lot666- this has been going on since it opened. The "premium prices" as the dates get closer and seats remain tend to go to $199"

How do they determine which seat numbers will be reduced? I could see no rhyme or reason to it, as there are seats closer to the aisle and closer to the stage that are now $199, while other seats that are further off to the side and further back are still $299.

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I remember reading some article about the "science" of these different ticketing things. That these agencies throw a few seats at "reduced" prices ($169 is reduced) so that a ticket buyer trying to decide whether to go or not, sees that and is more inclined to jump at the seats thinking they're getting a bargain. The $299 is targeted more for the out-of-towner only coming for a day or two and really wants to see this show. I was surprised that a week ago there were many seats not available for this coming Sat matinee and then Monday night, two rows of center orchestra became available.

Sadly all of the shows seem to do this.

Lot666 said: "chernjam said: "...I was surprised that a week ago there were many seats not available for this coming Sat matinee and then Monday night, two rows of center orchestra became available.

Sadly all of the shows seem to do this."

I HATE this. It's very frustrating to buy your tickets in advance, only to later find that better prices and/or better seats are suddenly available.

For the Phantom 25th performances at Royal Albert Hall, I set my alarm and got up in the middle of the night to buy tickets when they went on sale in London. You couldn't choose specific seats; the website only did the "best available" thing. Because there was a virtual queue and high demand, I accepted the first pair of "best available" seats that it offered and charged them to my credit card. Around midday, I went back to the website just to see how sales were going and found that a whole new block of seats had been dropped that were closer to the stage than what I'd bought. I was furious and emailed the website to complain. It took lots of back-and-forth, but they eventually allowed me to swap my seats to the better location.

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I bought tickets for Sunset the day they went on sale - back in October - for Feb 4. Especially remembering how I did the same thing when it first opened and ended up in Row Y of the minskoff theatre (and reading how tickets evaporated in London when Glenn did Sunset at ENO) I didn't want to wait. So Feb 4- Preview Sat Matinee, I bought Row P on the aisle (they actually gave me row Q, not sure what was up with that) - and as the months passed by, more tickets started becoming available.

They're assuming most ticket buyers aren't as obsessed as we are that they're constantly checking the stock of tickets, especially for a performance we've already bought tickets for :)

CT2NYC said: "Also, as a bonus, you'll have a REAL ticket to save for your collection."

I always get a real ticket.

Updated On: 4/7/17 at 11:21 AM

Just came across a great deal on stub hub. Wish I was going to be free that night!

Saturday night 5/13, two tickets, orchestra sides, Row M, $113 each.

That's lower than face value.

I'm selling two tickets to Sunset for Sunday 4/9, very good center front mezzanine seats including an aisle. Selling below face value and below current discounts. Please PM me if interested.