WICKED TICKETS DC HELP!!!!

Considering they have a huge ad on their front page, and have been advertising like crazy, it does not surprise me that you can't get through. Coupled with the insane Wicked popularity that has swept this country (something I still don't get, but I digress), it could very well be that too many people are on the website right now.

I suggest waiting a bit, or maybe going down to the box office in person if you are in town. However, I know people who became members just so they could get these tickets before they went on sale (non-Broadway freaks, even), and they had slim pickings in the first and second tiers.

Its crazy, I know. I like Wicked, saw it a few times with the OBC, but have no intention of adding to this mania. Hope you can get through today and can get something!

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Kinda on-the-topic I got tickets for Dec 27, my seats are second tier row A, seats 123 and 125. Never having seen a show at the Kennedy Center, how high are these seats, I assume I'll see everything fine, but will I still be in the line of motion or watching the top of the actors' heads the whole time? Thanks.

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Orange Skittles, I believe you posted the seating chart of the concert hall. Wicked is playing in the opera house.

Thanks for changing it. I was going to update it myself, but the Kennedy Center Website is down at the moment.

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Updated On: 10/3/05 at 02:58 PM

Best of luck on the tickets, that must be horrible! I think you've persuaded me to become a subscriber a get my Wicked tix early!

I just spent money I probably shouldn't have on tickets. I hate when you do something that feels right and you almost immediately regret it.

Which is ridiculous, because I've already volunteered to be a chaperone for my sister's high school orchestra trip to see the show, and my family may be going to see it anyway.

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Oh well, maybe I'm just not supposed to get ahold of these tickets.
The number for the box office is CONSTANTLY busy, and I've waited in line for tickets 2x online, and both times, the server got so busy that it crashed.
I guess I'll see what happens in a few hours, maybe I can pick up people's scraps.

Seriously, give up on the website and use the phone. I got down to the last 150 people "in line" and the server went down and I lost my place. I may have been on hold for an hour, but I did get through and got my ticket. And the woman first told me all the orchestra/box seats that were still available for the date I wanted.

Edit: I just checked the website again and there were 1386 people ahead of me!

Maybe the Kennedy Center will learn from this and start selling their tickets through Ticketmaster instead of being old-school elitists.

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Updated On: 10/3/05 at 04:42 PM

Just checked again to see how things have changed.

Every single performance is sold out.

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Okay, I'm just a tad confused. From my information, tickets went on sale the 1st, that's when I got mine. I mean I've bought tickets to things before at the Kennedy Center and have an account, did I get tickets before everyone or something? Not at all complaining, just a tad curious.

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Hmm, that's WEIRD. I have a friend in West Virginia that I knew I had to take to see this, she knows all the songs b/c I play them so much for her lol, so I've been keeping a close eye on the kennedy center website for months and it sdaid Oct 1 and I wrote the date down in my calendar. Hmm...i dunno...weirdness.

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