Posted: 3/4/24 at 8:30am
BroadwayNYC2 said: "“ Don’t be ridiculous. If you purchase a seat for a show that entitles you to occupy the seat for the duration of the show.”
clearly it doesn’t, hence why they have a waiting list. What do you think that’s for?"
The Young Vic is the only theatre in Britain that operates a “seat filler” policy where they issue a second ticket to SOLD seats if the person happens to be late.
Every other theatre that operates a waiting list does so purely for returns. There’s a huge difference between a wait list for returns, and using seat fillers.
It is extremely standard and normal in London theatre for people to be seated during specific latecomer points, or to be asked to wait till the interval. Maybe it’s different in NY but it’s very very normal here.
It’s obviously problematic and stupid to issue two separate tickets to two different people for the same seat at the same production.
If your policy is “We operate a strict no latecomers policy, if don’t take your seat by 7.29pm your ticket will be re-sold” then that’s one thing (that obviously would need to be explicitly stated), but the whole point is the Young Vic do not have a no latecomers policy, in fact quite the opposite. That’s the whole point. They happily let latecomers in while also double-selling the same ticket, which inevitably leads to conflict mid-show between the person who bought the ticket who was brought in to the theatre by an usher at the designated latecomers spot, and the person who has been given the latecomers seat.
