Wicked Tickets at the Pantages in L.A. — Page 2

So Popular...does that mean you owe me an In-N-Out burger with fries and a strawberry shake? Hahahahahah.

When I originally posted this thread that was my concern, a simple matter of semantics, were all the VIP seats sold out? I guess my information was correct, to a certain degree. Well, I got seats in the VIP section for the 2pm on 7/30, maybe as close as the 5th row, but no worse than the 20th row. I am looking for tickets on the first weekend. I think I will pay over $200 for each ticket.

I hope I will be right on a new cast member for the LA run. It would be nice to see Cheno.

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By the way, did you mean 6/30? I thought the run was only until mid July?

I heard April 4th

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Philadelphia...good ol' Denzel's character said that a lot. So now it's till the 31st?? Why does ticketmaster say the 17th? I'm so confused!!

How good are the rear mezz seats in this theatre. I really don't feel like paying 70 dollars for a ticket when I can pay 25. Are you able to see ok?

Noah3...the Pantages is a huge venue, about 2,000 if I am not mistaken. Rear mezz is very poor, unless you have some power binoculars or enjoy seeing everyone else have a good time but you. I would look for other seats. But I am a bit anal about sitting up close for the theater. I need to see the faces of the actors. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

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If you are local, they you'd better off going to the box office the day you want to see (weekday is better). They have returned tickets/house seat etc. and usually they are good seat. I got mine for Evita opening day, 2nd row Mezz center about 2 hours before the curtain time. Of course Evita is no Wicked but as they will be running more than one month, your bet should be fine.

If you are an out of towner and have to come on the weekend, you can still hope for the returned tickets in the middle of the run (not right after the opening or near the closing date). I'm coming from Northern CA and I won't purchase the tix until I get there as I don't want to pay the outrageous fee and sitting in a crappy seat.

Here is what I can share....

Wicked and the Pantages held a special group ticketing event about a month ago to promote group sales and the show. At this event, Kendra, Shephanie and Swartz performed. They mentioned that Kendra and Stephanie will be performing in LA. They also stated that they are hoping to sell out the show with pre-sale and group ticket sales and that their hope is that only individual tickets (or none at all) will be available once general tickets go on sale.

After hearing this, my group set up a large ticket block. It was about a three week process from filling in the paper work, having it processed and actually being told we got the seats we wanted. I guess the demand has been very high for these blocks of seats.

I also got tickets through the pre-sale events with a gold card member and when we did that, we eneded up about mid-orchestra.

Updated On: 3/29/05 at 03:55 PM

From what they shared at this event, they plan on having Wicked return in about a year and a half to two years for a longer run.

Those seats are not very far from the center isle so, I think you will be fine. Try not to get in the double letter rows through. :)

I'm curious if anyone knows the answer to this one. Has the Pantages caught onto Broadway's "dirty little secret" scheme as far as holding back center orchestra seats and renaming them "premium seats" selling at twice the price? I would think if any show could do this on tour it would be "Wicked".

Woo hoo! I'm so excited! I just bought my tickets for 4th of July weekend. Center Mezz Row E! I'm glad they were still available...I love those seats! See you guys at the show! :)

~Rosalynn

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