What broadway play?

[ams cruiser]

11 hours ago, George C said:

We buy almost all tickets at half price tkts locations and see about 4 plays every yearly trip , had great tickets to see beautiful twice. I like the new location by Lincoln center very small lines . Most tickets are 50 percent off. Of course you will not see Hamilton listed there but always find 4 shows we want to see. 

Wow!  You were able to get "Beautiful" tickets?  I read about the TKTS site by Lincoln center.  Do you remember what time you have to line up?  If you see 4 plays every year (lucky you!) does that involve going to TKTS every day?  I would love to get half-price tickets, but don't want to spend an inordinate amount of our limited time in NYC waiting in lines.

Thank you!

 

[ams cruiser]

On 8/25/2019 at 5:52 PM, lenquixote66 said:

We belong to a theater club.We get a group rate. 

Nice!

[ams cruiser]

1 hour ago, Nitemare said:

We haven't used TKTS in about 5 years.  We prefer to do our shopping from home and not stand in line at TKTS where you don't get to pick your ticket.

That being said, we just realized we don't have plans for this Saturday afternoon (Hadestown at night, Hamilton for Sunday matinee), so we might just end up at TKTS!

I didn't realize that you don't get to pick your seat at TKTS.  So you line up, and they just give you random tickets?  Hope you get good seats if you do end up there on Saturday!

[George C]

7 minutes ago, ams cruiser said:

I didn't realize that you don't get to pick your seat at TKTS.  So you line up, and they just give you random tickets?  Hope you get good seats if you do end up there on Saturday!

You can ask how seats are, we normally ask for a aisle and they will tell you if that’s available and what section , I have gotten dozens of tickets over the year and again there normally half price and that’s a bunch of money if you are seeing four shows.

[lenquixote66]

2 hours ago, George C said:

You can ask how seats are, we normally ask for a aisle and they will tell you if that’s available and what section , I have gotten dozens of tickets over the year and again there normally half price and that’s a bunch of money if you are seeing four shows.

We used to regularly go to TKTS .At one time a neighbors son worked there and we would ask for him hoping that he could help us get a good location but shortly afterward he got a different job and we just bought at the box office.

[Nitemare]

9 hours ago, ams cruiser said:

I can't remember the specifics, but on one site (I think it was Theatermania), this discounted seats were quite clear.  I think it was on Playbill that I checked off "show only discounted seats" or something like that, and it looked like the seats were not discounted.  I did figure out the mousing over part to the see the price - what I couldn't always figure out is whether or not the seat was actually discounted. 

 

Thank you for this information!  It was a little confusing (I took a little break from it, but will have to go back and look at it again.)  

Just a quick correction, the sales sites are either Ticketmaster or TelechargeOffers.  Playbill, Broadwaybox, and Theatermania list the discounts, but when you click to see the tickets you are forwarded to one of the two "T" sites.  The one with blue and yellow/orange dots in sort of a 3D angle view is Telecharge, the other one is Ticketmaster.

 

On Telecharge you can unclick the premium seats in the area where you chose number of seats and dates, and I think you want to keep the "Choose my own seats" option picked, instead of the "Website selects seats" option.

 

The Orange seats are discount.  The blue seats are not. 

[George C]

11 hours ago, ams cruiser said:

Wow!  You were able to get "Beautiful" tickets?  I read about the TKTS site by Lincoln center.  Do you remember what time you have to line up?  If you see 4 plays every year (lucky you!) does that involve going to TKTS every day?  I would love to get half-price tickets, but don't want to spend an inordinate amount of our limited time in NYC waiting in lines.

Thank you!

 

The great thing about Lincoln center tkts location is you can buy tickets for tonight’s show and also next day matinee, so on Friday I bought Friday nights tickets and Saturday afternoon then on Saturday bought Saturday night and Sunday afternoon,  so just two trips and waited in line about 15 mins each trip. When buying at Times Square you can not buy next days tickets. If you are downtown location by south street seaport you also can buy next days tickets. You can get the tkts app for your phone which will give you complete list of plays offered. 

[ams cruiser]

10 hours ago, Nitemare said:

Just a quick correction, the sales sites are either Ticketmaster or TelechargeOffers.  Playbill, Broadwaybox, and Theatermania list the discounts, but when you click to see the tickets you are forwarded to one of the two "T" sites.  The one with blue and yellow/orange dots in sort of a 3D angle view is Telecharge, the other one is Ticketmaster.

 

On Telecharge you can unclick the premium seats in the area where you chose number of seats and dates, and I think you want to keep the "Choose my own seats" option picked, instead of the "Website selects seats" option.

 

The Orange seats are discount.  The blue seats are not. 

Thank you so much for clarifying, what to me was a somewhat confusing process!  

 

[ams cruiser]

7 hours ago, George C said:

The great thing about Lincoln center tkts location is you can buy tickets for tonight’s show and also next day matinee, so on Friday I bought Friday nights tickets and Saturday afternoon then on Saturday bought Saturday night and Sunday afternoon,  so just two trips and waited in line about 15 mins each trip. When buying at Times Square you can not buy next days tickets. If you are downtown location by south street seaport you also can buy next days tickets. You can get the tkts app for your phone which will give you complete list of plays offered. 

Just downloaded the TKTS app, and it indicates that tickets for "Ain't Too Proud" and "Beautiful" (two out of my three choices) are available today at 40% discount.  

 

Also, it indicates that their Seaport ticket office is open at 11 a.m., vs Lincoln Center which opens at noon.  I'm wondering if this might be a convenient option from our hotel, which is in Little Italy.

 

15 minutes is not a bad wait at all.  Do you remember what time you got in line?  

 

Thank you!

[George C]

Just now, ams cruiser said:

Just downloaded the TKTS app, and it indicates that tickets for "Ain't Too Proud" and "Beautiful" (two out of my three choices) are available today at 40% discount.  

 

Also, it indicates that their Seaport ticket office is open at 11 a.m., vs Lincoln Center which opens at noon.  I'm wondering if this might be a convenient option from our hotel, which is in Little Italy.

 

15 minutes is not a bad wait at all.  Do you remember what time you got in line?  

 

Thank you!

Got there about noon, found Lincoln center to be shortest wait by far , Times Square the longest. Our hotel is between Times Square and Lincoln center, before Lincoln center opened I would go to south street seaport. Beautiful is a great show we saw it twice on broadway and recently in Dallas. First time we ever saw a play three times, I see Tootsie is on tkts that’s fun,  sometimes Come from away is there also, saw that last year also from tkts. 

[ams cruiser]

2 minutes ago, George C said:

Got there about noon, found Lincoln center to be shortest wait by far , Times Square the longest. Our hotel is between Times Square and Lincoln center, before Lincoln center opened I would go to south street seaport. Beautiful is a great show we saw it twice on broadway and recently in Dallas. First time we ever saw a play three times, I see Tootsie is on tkts that’s fun,  sometimes Come from away is there also, saw that last year also from tkts. 

I think "Come from Away" might not have shows on Monday, because it has been on TKTS before, so I'll check tomorrow.  Were you happy with the seats that you were able to get at TKTS?  Also, I don't know if you can tell me this, but I am thinking about dropping our bags at the hotel after we get off of the cruise, and then taking the subway to  Southstreet seaport at 11 a.m., or Lincoln Center at noon, followed by lunch somewhere.  Are there good places to have lunch near Southport, or is it better to go to Lincoln Center?

Thanks, again!

[George C]

12 minutes ago, ams cruiser said:

I think "Come from Away" might not have shows on Monday, because it has been on TKTS before, so I'll check tomorrow.  Were you happy with the seats that you were able to get at TKTS?  Also, I don't know if you can tell me this, but I am thinking about dropping our bags at the hotel after we get off of the cruise, and then taking the subway to  Southstreet seaport at 11 a.m., or Lincoln Center at noon, followed by lunch somewhere.  Are there good places to have lunch near Southport, or is it better to go to Lincoln Center?

Thanks, again!

Either Lincoln center or south street seaport is fine, remember there are afternoon shows Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday  and hardly anything on Monday and very limited on Sunday night. We love Becco Italian on 46th between 8th and 9th for a meal before show ,  I would get a reservation, see restaurants thread for more ideas. 

[ams cruiser]

20 minutes ago, George C said:

Either Lincoln center or south street seaport is fine, remember there are afternoon shows Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday  and hardly anything on Monday and very limited on Sunday night. We love Becco Italian on 46th between 8th and 9th for a meal before show ,  I would get a reservation, see restaurants thread for more ideas. 

Will do, thank you!

 

[George C]

here is a great thread about nyc restaurants 

 

[ams cruiser]

3 hours ago, George C said:

here is a great thread about nyc restaurants 

 

Perfect!  Sometimes it's hard to find these threads on the board.

[Nitemare]

VERY few Broadway shows play on Mondays.  There are a couple and a few Off Broadway shows.

[lenquixote66]

If anyone is staying in NJ pre or post cruise and want to see quality productions I recommend The Barn Theater.A guy who I knew in college is an actor and Director there.

[lenquixote66]

This coming Saturday we are going to see Wicked.

Mrs,66 changed her mind and now wants to see Moulin Rouge. We are going to see it in November.

[Got2Cruise]

Does anyone have any info on the new production of West Side Story? 

[lenquixote66]

2 hours ago, Got2Cruise said:

Does anyone have any info on the new production of West Side Story? 

We are going to see it with our theater club on May 20.The play will open in Feb.The Director is Ivo van Hove.

Edited September 4, 2019 by lenquixote66

[Nitemare]

So we were not overwhelmed by Hadestown.  We had an understudy as Hermes which surely didn't help, but we were not at all impressed with the actor who played Orpheus.  Felt he had no charisma and no chemistry with Eurydice.

 

Hamilton, on the other hand, was as good as ever.  Daniel Breaker is SO close to being better than Leslie Odom Jr. as Burr, it is scary.  We had a new Hamilton, Jimmy Jeter, who seems to have potential, but he has only been in the role for a couple of weeks.  He's also tiny and his costumes didn't seem like they fit.

[lenquixote66]

We saw Wicked yesterday.I thought it was good,not great.

 

On Sept.11 we are going to see To Kill A Mockingbird.

[George C]

57 minutes ago, lenquixote66 said:

We saw Wicked yesterday.I thought it was good,not great.

 

On Sept.11 we are going to see To Kill A Mockingbird.

I was not impressed by wicked, would have loved to gotten tickets for Mockingbird 

[lenquixote66]

We saw To Kill A Mockingbird yesterday.It was very good but I cannot say the same about the theater.We had Orchestra seats and to go to a bathroom it was either a flight upstairs or a flight downstairs.The only other option was to find an usher who was not busy and be escorted across the street to Sardi’s.

[ams cruiser]

Has anyone ever seen "Hamilton" on both Broadway and San Francisco (or any of the traveling casts)?  We just saw it for the first time in SF (I think with the "Peggy" cast?) yesterday, and absolutely loved it.  A couple of the main roles were played by standby actors, I believe, but they were very good.  Just wondering how the Broadway cast compares.  Are the "best" productions (or more experienced actors) always on Broadway?

 

We hadn't been to a show in years (!), but had been planning to see  Hamilton, at some point, when the tickets became more readily available.  And then we just never got around to it. But we actually won the $10 lottery - bought the tickets online on Saturday as soon as we got notification, and saw the matinee on Sunday.  Had great seats in the Mezzanine at the Orpheum, and were thrilled to be there!