Todaytix rush has only 4 tickets, FOUR!

[Stop using todaytix]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 10:34am

Why even have a rush if you're only going to offer 4 tickets? This was for Kings. Todaytix seems to pile up on shows with rush or lottery solely for promotional purposes. With likely over a hundred people trying to get the tickets at once it's just cruel. Their digital rush system is horrible to begin with and it's even replaced the in person rush at the Public. Just like other big shows in recent past only offered affordable tickets on todaytix that were impossible to obtain like Dear Evan Hansen, Othello and Sweet Charity.

The todaytix demographic consists of lazy millennials who do zero research on their own and just mindlessly follow whatever the company emails them. They'll pay a premium on regular tickets instead of taking two minutes to find a better deal elsewhere. The same demographic that will pay more money to have a stranger drive them around in a uber.

Please stop using todaytix. You can find all the deals elsewhere. Let the app die out like other horribly run apps eventually will, like snapchat. Then we can finally have actually obtainable rush and lottery tickets again.

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 10:39am

This post is dripping with entitlement.

[Broadway_Boy]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 10:46am

I've had much better luck with the Todaytix lottos then the Broadway direct ones, but I do think it was way more fair when they were done in person and you could see everything via lottery if you were committed to entering every once in a while.  

[ebizzle]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 11:00am

I just checked and there are still rush tickets left for the evening performance of Kings. Also you’re not entitled to cheaper tickets for shows

[cglaid]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 11:06am

I don't care if they have only 4 rush tickets, what stops me from buying TodayTix is the $12.50 a ticket fee. It seems unnecessarily high. I waited until Hello Dolly had no ticket fees to buy a ticket and will only enter lottery for that purpose. For those purposes, TodayTix is great. But the fees have skyrocketed since it's launch.

[JBroadway]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 11:27am

Why drag millennials into this? Any problems TodayTix has with their system (and I agree there are problems) are not the fault of their demographic. Plus, you call millennials lazy for not looking up better deals, but what on earth could you possibly be basing that assumption on? It’s the younger generation that DOES have the technological wherewithal to explore the internet for information like that. Not to mention the fact that it tends to be mostly millennials who take to the pavement and get in line for rush.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 11:36am

shut. up. 

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 12:08pm

I think we have our winner for 2018's most idiotic post of the year... and we're barely into February.

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 12:12pm

I don't use today tix unless it's for a lotto or rush but I've seen people of all ages waiting outside theatres waiting on the today tix line.

[WayTooBroadway]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 1:08pm

MAKE TODAYTIX GREAT AGAIN

[Stop using todaytix]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 1:10pm

ebizzle said: "I just checked and there are still rush tickets left for the evening performance of Kings. Also you’re not entitled to cheaper tickets for shows "

I waited while tickets were in other people's carts until it said they were all sold and to "check back Tuesday." Sometimes it will say there are tickets available, but actually aren't. Did you try adding it to your cart? If there actually were still tickets at that time either they added more or the android app is glitched if you were using iOS.

[ebizzle]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 1:25pm

"I waited while tickets were in other people's carts until it said they were all sold and to "check back Tuesday." Sometimes it will say there are tickets available, but actually aren't. Did you try adding it to your cart? If there actually were still tickets at that time either they added more or the android app is glitched if you were using iOS."

 

I put it in my cart and purchased it so I'm pretty positive that an hour later, there were still rush tickets.

[WayTooBroadway]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 1:36pm

Maybe you should get an iPhone then.

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 1:53pm

It’s hard to take you or your post seriously when you group an entire generation together and then blame a faulty app on their “laziness”. If you experienced issues with TodayTix, you obviously used the app as well. Why didn’t YOU “do your own research” and find the better deals instead of relying on an app? The hypocrisy of your post is insane. Come back when you have a real argument and lose your sense of entitlement.

[Stop using todaytix]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 2:07pm

TheGingerBreadMan said: "It’s hard to take you or your post seriously when you group an entire generation together and then blame a faulty app on their “laziness”. If you experienced issues with TodayTix, you obviously used the app as well. Why didn’t YOU “do your own research” and find the better deals instead of relying on an app? The hypocrisy of your post is insane. Come back when you have a real argument and lose your sense of entitlement."

I did my research and there are no better deals for this particular show because apparently todaytix is a public theater donor and in exchange they get to promote having rush tickets, 4. And todaytix are now the only source of the public's rush tickets as it says on their site that no in person rush tickets will be available. Call it entitlement, but I call it looking for fair and uncorrupt access to affordable tickets.

I will further look into if they add more rush tickets later or if this is an android and iphone difference issue.

[UncleCharlie]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 2:43pm

Hi. I'm a lazy millennial. As a lazy millennial, you can imagine how busy my days are, filled with liking posts on social media and seeing how many likes my posts on social media got. It sure doesn't leave much time to shop for theater tickets. That's why I use TodayTix. I love that it caters to lazy millennials like me who do zero research on their own and just mindlessly follow whatever the company emails them. I don't have to spend any valuable social media time thinking about what I want to see which is cool. And best of all, their app has a new feature. It can sense which users are complete jerks and which are nice and it will let the nice people win the very limited rush tickets while the complete jerks are shut out. And the best part is listening to the jerks complain about it afterwards that because they just weren't fast enough on their phone to win, the whole system is corrupt, and even though we were trying for tickets for the exact same show, my interest in the show is mindless while they are an informed theater goer. So much fun!!! So remember, if you're a lazy millennial like me, TodayTix is for you.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 3:02pm

Just because you WANT more affordable tickets, doesn't mean you are entitled to them.  Additionally, don't blame the app for however many tickets the theater/producers provide them with.   It's THEIR choice.   Unless you ar implying they are given more and sellling them as regular tickets.

And I just love that someone else here actually the very tickets you thought you should have after the fact.

 

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 4:49pm

Stop using todaytix said: "TheGingerBreadMan said: "It’s hard to take you or your post seriously when you group an entire generation together and then blame a faulty app on their “laziness”. If you experienced issues with TodayTix, you obviously used the app as well. Why didn’t YOU “do your own research” and find the better deals instead of relying on an app? The hypocrisy of your post is insane. Come back when you have a real argument and lose your sense of entitlement."

I did my research and there are no better deals for this particular show because apparently todaytix is a public theater donor and in exchange they get to promote having rush tickets, 4. And todaytix are now the only source of the public's rush tickets as it says on their site that no in person rush tickets will be available. Call it entitlement, but I call it looking for fair and uncorrupt access to affordable tickets.

I will further look into if they add more rush tickets later or if this is an android and iphone difference issue."

 

If you’ve concluded that there are no better deals elsewhere, then that further invalidates your point. Why complain about the source that’s giving you the best deal?

[JVJ93]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 4:51pm

The TodayTix “rush” policies have been rigged from the beginning. I know a guy who used to work for them and that’s exactly what he told me. There’s a trick to getting access to rush tickets that only the TodayTix employees and their close friends know how to do. Not fair

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 4:59pm

1) Have they actually stopped doing in person rush at The Public?

2) Not sure where the criticism of millennials is coming from. They seem the most likely to do research to save money.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 5:03pm

In that case you should contact the Attorney General, because that would be fraudulent.

 

[JBroadway]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 5:22pm

@VintageSnarker that’s correct, they no longer do in-person rush.

[BroadwayLuv2]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 5:29pm

JVJ93 said: "The TodayTix “rush” policies have been rigged from the beginning. I know a guy who used to work for them and that’s exactly what he told me. There’s a trick to getting access to rush tickets that only the TodayTix employees and their close friends know how to do. Not fair"

I've "won" rush tickets on the todaytix app several times.  I am not an employee of today tix nor do I have any friends who work there, Nor have I been bestowed with any classified information on how to manipulate the system so I get these rush tickets. 

There's no rigging.  Sometimes a popular show will have a lot of people trying to get these tickets, so sometimes you might need to try multiple times before "winning" these tickets.  

I literally saw Kings last week through this Rush.  Just keep trying on other days if you don't succeed the first time.    

Updated On: 2/11/18 at 05:29 PM

[haterobics]

Posted: 2/11/18 at 11:49pm

Isn't The Public rush based on availability, though? So, if there were only 4 tickets available one day, then that is all of the available rush tickets. Probably changes day to day. Even so, I never saw the app say how many rush tickets were available before...

[JBroadway]

Posted: 2/12/18 at 12:24am

The Public is a very strange animal when it comes to the availability of cheap tickets. On one hand, they provide opportunities like their free first previews, TodayTix mobile rushes/lotteries, and student tickets which can be purchased in advance at the box office. And yet, in practice they come up short with accessibility compared to their fellow Off-Broadway non-profits because they place more restrictions. 

The free first-previews are great, but with most of them happening on Sunday nights or weeknights - and the fact that it only happens once in a run - they are often difficult to catch even on a student schedule. 

The TodayTix rushes and lotteries are also nice, but they are often so difficult to win that, from a practical standpoint, they might as well not exist. For the lucky few who win, it's great, but there is very little agency for the people seeking cheap tickets. From what I've heard and experiences, it's not uncommon to enter lotteries every day for an entire run and never win. 

Many companies (like MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, MTC, LCT, Encores, TFANA, and Irish Rep, to name just some) offer youth and student discounts that can be purchased ahead of time ONLINE. This makes a huge difference for 2 reasons: (1) because it is not always feasible for students to find the time during box office hours to physically buy tickets downtown and (2) For very popular shows at the Public, it becomes literally impossible to buy student tickets because an entire run might sell out online in just a couple hours, before the box office even opens that day (usually at 2pm). And with no seats being held aside, they simply do not offer student tickets to those shows (I know because it's happened to me before). They have the policy, but they don't protect it in the way many other companies do. 

For many companies (CSC and St. Ann's, for example) - even if they don't hold aside discounted tickets to popular shows, they will allow people to purchase cancellation tickets to a for rush price. This also makes a huge practical difference, for obvious reasons. 

I realize that these policies are not nothing. I myself have seen things at the Public because of them. And I know that we are not entitled to cheap tickets. But if you look at the Public's policies and compare them with that of their colleagues/competitors in the world of non-profit theatre, there is a clear difference in how practically accessible cheap tickets are on the average day of a show's run.

Some of the things I mentioned (making youth tix available online, allotting tickets for the discount policies, and allowing cancellation tickets to be purchased at rush price) are common practice for companies of their caliber. Even doing ONE of those 3 things would make a big difference in how accessible their tickets would be to students/youth on a budget. Again, it's not that we are entitled to these policies, but when other companies (most of whom are not only smaller and less well-funded, but do not spout the same rhetoric of accessibility as the Public) have more practical accessibility to cheap tickets, it's hard to ignore. 

 

Updated On: 2/12/18 at 12:24 AM