The Boys in the Band - standing room

it's only sold when the performance is sold out, right?

holdyourbatboy said: "Just went by the BO and they are now selling standing room to the show.She said they have great sightlines - hopefully she’s right. Very excited."

SRO at the Booth should be fine, not a huge house. Saw Bette a few times there from SRO. Of course, she just sat on a sofa the whole show...

SRO is $40 and I think only when the show sells out, but she was confident that it would be available tonight through Saturday night.

What time are they releasing SRO tickets? When the box office opens at 10am? Was there a line already?

I'm surprised they're selling SRO so early into previews as I always heard that's where creative team take notes etc. during previews.

Good for them though that the show is selling out!

Anyone know if there will be rush/lottery for this show?

I went to the box office yesterday (Sunday, 5/5) for opening. There were about six of us in line at 10 and were told that they wouldn't sell an SRO ticket until at least two hours prior to curtain and that the matinee most likely wouldn't sell out clean so we should expect them not to be doing it. So if you're planning on doing it, make sure to check telecharge in advance or you'll be disappointed.

A weird phenomenon happened though that there were no tickets listed on Stubhub for the matinee and then all of a sudden a pair of tickets in the last row orchestra house left opened up for $130 each (far below face value). They then went down two hours before curtain to $70 each. I bought them immediately. I picked them up and found they'd been marked full price $179 but with fees that had to be upwards of $200. These were a steal!

When I arrived at the theater, I found that our seats were being covered by the tech booth. The usher said we could just leave a seat between us and the table and move closer to the center. Another woman came and said she'd just walked up to the box office ten minutes before curtain and asked if they had any left and they sold her a discounted ticket for that row as well. I don't know if this was a fluke or a regular practice through previews. I assume they'll be fine tuning the lights and sound design for the next week or so.

So if you're willing to wait close to showtime, check stubhub and the box office to see if they'll sell you these seats. The view was great since it's such a small, intimate theater. The only sightline issues we had were with the upper level of the set (it's a very similar design to the The Humans, if you've seen it), but if you duck a bit you can see everything just fine (especially Matt Bomer in his underwear before the shower scene!!! lol) and not much happens on the second level beside the first ten or so minutes and then one scene later on. I'm sure the whole second level was obstructed entirely for anyone who would've been standing behind us.

Hope this helps!

Updated On: 5/6/18 at 05:52 PM

I went to the box office today and was told that their current policy is that they won't be selling standing room only tickets on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays before they open. After once they officially open they'll be standing room only for all performances (I don't know if that presumes everything else will sell out of not) but there will be no rush even after they open.

That's what I was told at 3:10pm today, that policy could change at 4:10pm today if you get what I mean.

BTW, the Saturday BroadwayLuv2 got SRO tickets I asked in the morning and was told to come back in the late afternoon. I got there at 4:45pm and was told SRO already sold out. So if it's one of the days they might have SRO I would error on the side of checking early.

I was there this past Saturday matinee (the performance where Parsons got injured). I went to the box office at about 12:30, and they had several left. Someone in front of me in line got one, and I heard him offer it to someone else behind me too. Based on the bit I overheard, it sounds like they had a few seats left despite the fact that they were selling SRO already.

I went to the box office at 10:45pm today and they told me to check back later for SRO because they still hadn't sold out yet. Which makes sense, but since I've tried several times before and been told standing room only was already sold out, despite there still being tickets available on their website, timing hitting the box office remains something of a crapshoot.

Any updates from this past week or so?