Tickets

My daughter and I are arriving Friday, October 14th and will be doing the Hamilton cancellation line that night. We're going to NYU all day Saturday but want to see a show that night as well as one or two on Sunday. She wants to see Avenue Q and Something Rotten. Our other possibilities are either School of Rock or Matilda. Should I buy tickets from home or use the discount tickets booth. She's 16 so if there are other suggestions, I welcome them. Thank you, Kerri

Or use goldstar or TodayTix which both have $45 orchestra tickets for Avenue Q and relatively inexpensive tickets to Something Rotten. I have seen all four of those shows pop up on tdf as well (all tickets will be under $50 each when you use that, so maybe the membership would be a worthwhile investment and would most likely pay for itself after one use). SOR would be the one most likely to not be on tdf however. So I would go with tkts for that or rush.

Also, if you are comfortable with this, she or you could go over to rush another show while one of you waits in the cancellation line since the policy is that one person can get up to two tickets.

Most of those have decent discounts, particularly in advance. That said, many of them also have lotteries, so you could try your luck and as soon as you know you didn't win, just buy them using a code online or at TKTS.

Also, not sure how crazy the Hamilton cancellation line is these days, but if you're arriving on Friday, I'm not sure you be getting to see that Friday night, as many people are still queuing up pretty early at like 6 a.m. and such. So... you may have another opening on Friday.

All good suggestions. I'll look into the rush and lottery for these shows. It sounds like the ticket booth is a wait. Would you choose school of rock over Matilda? As for the cancellation line at Hamilton, we're landing at 10 so hopefully we'll get there by two. Is that usually too late?