XANADU Tour Route — Page 2

Thanks,Jacob. I doubt this, but by any chance do they do on-stage seating during the tour?

Does anybody know anything about the on-stage seats? Maybe how they were sold in San Diego or Chicago? I imagine the specific tour theatre deals with it. I emailed the Paramount in Seattle, but they apparently don't want to respond to me. They were terrible when I tried to get info about Spring Awakening's on stage seats last year.

Thanks for the info! Did they normally sell out right away? I would imagine so...

Actually the show wasn't meant to be an open end run. They said, repeatedly, that if the show was a monstrous hit in Chicago they would consider setting up a second company to stick around, but never, ever did they announce it as an open ended run.

The show was initially on sale for a few months, then extended bookings through March 31. The Tokyo engagement was already pre-set before opening in Chicago in January, and that's a large reason the show closed... because it had to move across the Pacific which takes time.

Was XAN a huge smash in Chicago? No.. but it didn't do terribly, either. The real problem I think the show had was the venue. For whatever reason it's a hard theatre to sell (Spelling Bee being the exception, which was a rareity). A lot of people still don't even know it's there!

FYI - On the tour you will NOT be able to buy onstage seats through Ticketmaster....you can only get them through each venues box office. It avoids confusion by those that don't know what "onstage seats" are.

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No Phyllis. It's just much easier to control the onstage information when in a different theatre every week with potentially different ushers sitting every show. In Chicago the house staff was the same for all shows and it was very easy to control. Even then there were several serious issues with Chicago on-stage patrons regardless of the information they received from TicketMaster! So it has nothing to do with thinking someone is stupid, as you assert.

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Actually I know that some venues are choosing (most venues) NOT to sell stage seats online, as SakeDad said, but at least in Cleveland they ARE selling onstage seats through Ticketmaster online.

For what it's worth, Spring Awakening is in Milwaukee next week and they are only selling stage seats at the box office to avoid "difficulties." When SA was in Chicago in August, the ushers acted as if we were disarming a nuclear device instead of sitting on stage. And it seemed everyone had seen it before and knew more about the show than the ushers did. Very bizarre.

I would love to join this tour as Max von Essen's concubine. Do you think I would get a per diem?