Wicked Lottery
Wicked Lottery
MusicInMyMind11
Swing Joined: 8/23/08
#1Wicked Lottery
Posted: 6/10/09 at 10:53amI'm sure a million posts have been put up about this, but could anyone give me any advice for the Wicked lottery? I know when it starts and stuff, but how many people are generally there?
#2re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 6/10/09 at 10:55amThe least there is on any given day is about 200-300. That's probably your general Tuesday through Thursday. Weekends? You're looking at maybe 400-500.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#2re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 6/10/09 at 10:55amUsually a lot. I've heard 200-300, but during the week it might be slightly less.
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MusicInMyMind11
Swing Joined: 8/23/08
#4re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 6/10/09 at 11:02amIf you win, it's worth it. It's a crapshoot. If you really want to see it, do the lottery. Taking a chance at winning is better than not trying at all.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#5re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 6/10/09 at 12:42pmIt took me over a dozen tries to win, but it was really worth it!
#6re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 6/10/09 at 1:31pmit took me like 4 or 5 tries...definately worth it. You'll win eventually, just maybe not on the first or second try:)
#7re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 6/10/09 at 1:34pmYou can't win if you don't enter.
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MusicInMyMind11
Swing Joined: 8/23/08
#8re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 6/13/09 at 4:34pmI won! Really, I don't know how I did, but I won. I was really afraid that it wasn't going to be worth it, but oh my god, it was! Thanks so much guys!
#9re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 6/13/09 at 4:41pmCongratulations! I always love the feeling you get when you win a lotto, especially one as hard to win as Wicked! Enjoy Alli and Nicole! :)
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
#10re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 11/3/09 at 7:32pm
I'm going on a wednesday. Do you think they'll be a ton of people there? and do they still give out those pins if you win?
#11re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 11/3/09 at 7:45pm
Yes, they still give out the pins.
It's always a very crowded lottery.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#12re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 11/3/09 at 8:36pm
For anyone who bumps up this thread in the future:
Yes, it is still busy.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
jeffmiele
Broadway Star Joined: 11/6/07
#14re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 11/3/09 at 8:40pm18 seats are in the front row center, 4 seats are in the front row side (2 on each side of the theater), and 4 seats are in the second row on the side.
#15re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 11/3/09 at 9:27pmI won my first try. I got REALLY lucky. I would definitely try it.
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BroadwayBaby21
Broadway Star Joined: 8/20/04
#16re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 11/3/09 at 11:13pmI lived in the city this summer for an internship, and tried the wicked lotto probably about 10 times when I had nothing else to do. I won on my last night in the city. Great way to end my stay! :)
-If you don't like your fate, change it. You are your own master.- Aida
#17re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 11/4/09 at 1:22ami've won the wicked lottery twice, and i've never gotten a pin.
#18re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 11/4/09 at 2:13amI live directly across the street from the Gershwin theatre. The front door to my building faces the Gershwin Stage Door. So, I've had many times to try the lottery and I've never won once. I've probably tried it a dozen times when I have a free evening. Maybe one day I'll win...it's always so crowded. And the Wicked lottery guy is SO intense...
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#19re: Wicked Lottery
Posted: 11/4/09 at 2:20am
That's good you live so close to everything. I have to pay $5 AUD to travel to the city of Sydney to enter the lotto here. It ads up.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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