The absolute cheapest tickets

Talkin' Broadway has all the info for standing room and rush. Several of those shows offer a pretty cheap rear mezz or balcony ticket too. Just do a little research and you'll be fine. You can probably see all of those shows for like $150.

Isn't second acting relatively impossible these days, with the scanning in and out of tickets at intermission? Even if some theatres are lax in their policies, it's hard to know from theatre to theatre. Second act-ing a show was much easier in the 90s.

Keep in mind that standing room is only sold for sold out performances, and very few shows are running at 100% right now.

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Spring Awakening and Grey Gardens have student rush. I went to the GG box office 30 minutes before the matinee started and got student rush.

Chorus Line has lottery.

I haven't heard about second acting in years. In the 1960's I tried it a few times and it worked for me most of the time. It was most successful when it was warm enough out so that you didn't need a coat which you theoretically would have left in the theatre for intermission. It also was necessary to pick a show that wasn't sold out so that you could sit in the back of the Orchestra section. I do remember second acting FUNNY GIRL with Streisand and sittting on the bench that the Winter Garden had for standing room in the rear of the Orchestra, and the usher came along checking everyone's ticket stub and stopped checking just before me. That made me nervous. During my drinking days I second acted Noel Coward's THE GIRL WHO CAME TO SUPPER at least 6 times. I never second acted a show that I hadn't originally seen in it's entirety. I only got kicked out once, at the Shubert which had the watchful eye of a diligent usher! Ah, the good old days.

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People definitely still do it, and relatively easily at that.

FYI, Talkin' Broadway's information for Company's rush is incorrect; they have rush for all performances now. But as has been said, that's the cheapest you're going to get. They're $36.25, but you can also buy rear mezz seats in advance for the same price.

Aren't Spring Awakening's regular rush tickets cheaper than the on stage seats?

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Like NO shows have benches for SRO, most shows you STAND unless theres a seat open.

DRSislove: The Winter Garden used to have a velvet bench at the back wall of the Orchestra section which was there for SRO people to sit on, or they could stand behind the glass partition that used to be there. The last show that I saw at the Winter Garden was 1980's 42ND STREET, so that may all have changed. No other theatre had such a bench.

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