The Whoopi Monologues - Lincoln Center (Off-Bwy) — Page 2
Posted: 7/7/26 at 12:14pm
Still a big difference between disclosing right before someone is going to give you money, instead of disclosing with the original announcement when they obviously knew her dates. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Posted: 7/7/26 at 12:34pm
This situation was handled extremely poorly by LCT IMO. I don't know the LincTix situation, but I can speak to the regular Member Ticket situation.
LCT sends out a mailer about each show before the member pre-sale. In the mailer, it said that Kerry Washington was only going to be in the show until August 2nd. But neither the LCT website nor Telecharge said anything about this when Member Tickets went on sale. The exclamation points with Washington's absences were not there. The email LCT sent to members reminding them about the presale didn't say anything about it, either. I had forgotten about what it said in the mailer, and I bought a ticket for a later August date in the Member pre-sale. I am 100% sure that there was no mention on those websites on the day the Member Tickets went on sale.
I came across the mailer several days after the Member pre-sale had started, but before the general public sale date. At that time, there was still no mention on the websites about Washington's absence. I remember this because I thought that the lack of mentioning this may have meant that Washington changed her plans and was actually appearing in the entire run, so I asked on the phone if she was still leaving on August 2nd. I was told she was still leaving, and I changed my ticket, but I would not have needed to ask if the websites had told me.
I don't know when the exclamation points with the dates that Washington was out were added, but it was definitely not when Member Tickets first went on sale. And it still doesn't say anywhere at LCT.org that Washington will be out for half the run. I think there are going to be a lot of angry Members once August rolls around, which could have been completely avoided if they had put the exclamation points in from the very beginning.
Posted: 7/7/26 at 1:21pm
The exclamation points weren’t there when I booked tickets. Luckily I chose a date earlier in the run.
Posted: 7/7/26 at 1:28pm
I believe the LCT member ticketing site is the old Telecharge site…the one with tabs on top of the dates that you selected. The info wasn’t there when I purchased. Later on when I went into the regular Telecharge site, I saw the exclamation marks.
Posted: 7/7/26 at 1:40pm
This definitely sucks and I'm sorry that was your experience. The thing to remember with the non-profit union contracts, no one gets billed above title and there's no automatic trigger for an exchange/refund if a given star is out. So they don't have to go out of their way, but most orgs do because the nonprofit theater is dying and retention is of utmost importance.
Definitely something I've learned the hard way a time or two.
Posted: 7/7/26 at 3:18pm
I think it seems clear that the exclamation marks didn’t come up for everybody. Why the discrepancy?
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