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samandryanmom
Swing Joined: 6/10/16
#1Tickets
Posted: 10/2/16 at 8:19pm
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
#2Tickets
Posted: 10/2/16 at 8:37pm
Go to TKTS, if you don't mind even more waiting around. All four of those shows were on the board today, so you should be good. Keep an eye on the website (or app) to see what shows are available. TKTS
hes16
Stand-by Joined: 2/6/16
#3Tickets
Posted: 10/2/16 at 9:26pm
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.
h6p8gv
Featured Actor Joined: 7/31/03
#5Tickets
Posted: 10/2/16 at 9:51pm
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.
Broadway_Boy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/22/05
#6Tickets
Posted: 10/2/16 at 10:31pm
Avenue Q and Something Rotten if you each got to one box office an hour before opening you could get rush tickets for $25 for Q and $32 tix for Rotten. For Hamilton, if you can't get there a few hours beforehand it probably won't be worth it.
samandryanmom
Swing Joined: 6/10/16
#7Tickets
Posted: 10/2/16 at 11:46pm
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?
#9Tickets
Posted: 10/3/16 at 12:12am
samandryanmom said: "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? "
There is an entire cancellation line thread on here with more info, but that sounds too late to me, unless things have really gotten easy since the OBC mainly left.
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