TKTS on-line?
TKTS on-line?
Bill63
Chorus Member Joined: 6/10/04
#0TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 12:51pm
Does anyone know if there are any plans to have a TKTS like service on-line? Where you can buy discount Broadway tickets the day of a performance and pick them up at the box office. This would be simular to what a number of NJ theaters have done at:
http://www.njartstix.org/index.jsp
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#1re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 1:00pm
Not that I've heard of. Though they're always talking about making an actual TKTS building.
C'mon, waiting in the TKTS line for endless hours is a rite of passage! 
#2re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 1:04pmI dont mind waiting in the long line...its fun to meet interesting people from all over the place and talk about theatre for the 2-3 hours your in line. I kinda like that stand they have at duffy square instead of a real building. I guess i like it because it has so much character and its like a sign that says "Welcome to Broadway." Wow, im way to deep right now. =D
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#3re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 1:08pm
if time is of concern -- check out all the discount codes at --
www.broadwaybox.com
you can go right to the Box Office and the discounts are pretty close to the net from TKTS
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Updated On: 7/28/04 at 01:08 PM
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#5re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 1:17pmcan anyone tell me the existing tkts website address? or the hours it is open, i need to know ASAP. thanks
#6re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 1:18pm
go to www.tdf.org
It's there.
FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#8re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 6:10pmTry www.enterainment-link.com
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#9re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 6:15pm
I've actually never waited on the TKTS line before.
I usually use discount codes or student rush if I want to get cheap seats.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
#10re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 6:39pmSame here, I think that someday just to do it I will que on up at the booth. Isn't there one down in the financial district?
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#11re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 6:44pmYeah there's one down by Battery Park and all that. I've seen it but I've never used it.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
#12re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 6:51pmSince the horrors of 9/11 the TKTS downtown location is now at South Street Seaport.
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Updated On: 7/28/04 at 06:51 PM
#13re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 7:37pmThe one at South Street has much shorter lines, and usually the same shows. But, seriously, a lot of times they're more than full-price for rear balcony seats, which in almost all Bway Houses are great seats.
lna
Stand-by Joined: 5/19/04
#14re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 11:54pm
Methinks they would have absolutely no incentive to put TKTS online as long as people are willing to buy full price tickets at the last minute (or use other, lesser, discounts).
If they did make 'em available online, the producers would probably hold off releasing the tickets until the last minute, hoping that people would prefer to try Ticketmaster/Telecharge/the Box Office first.
Right now, if you don't want to wait on line, you pay a bit more.
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#15re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 11:58pmI've never waited more than an hour at TKTS...and its fun to chat with and talk folks out of going to see Disney shows....If more of the people would have an idea what they want to see and whats on the board before they got to the window.....the line time would be cut in half.....How many times have you had to wait in back of some idiot who asks the guy at the window for a review of each show...........or asks for "Lion King" tickets?
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#16re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 12:55am
slightly off-topic but...
One time I was at the TKTS booth and I was talking to two Belgium ladies and a Chinese lady recommending them on shows to see when a Japanse news station came up and asked if they could interview me about some shows I would recommend and about the benefits of using the TKTS booth. They told me that later on I'd be dubbed over like Extreme Elimination Challenge was done here. The interview went on for about five filmed minutes. When they left, the three previous women all bought tickets for Millie and I got two seats for Avenue Q.
Only in New York.
#17re: TKTS on-line?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 12:44pmHow'd you get tickets for Avenue Q at TKTS? That must have been really early in the run b/c it was hard to get tickets almost right away (for day of), now it's almost impossible without doing cancellations.
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