Angels in America Tickets
Angels in America Tickets
leota22
Swing Joined: 1/16/08
#1Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 2:32pm
I completely forgot that tickets for Angels went on sale on Aug. 3 and now I can't find any for the time I want to go. I want one ticket to each part for any time during the last two weeks of October. I know some of you here are more knowledgable about how to get tickets to sold out shows. I don't want to get cheated. :) Any sites/people that have reasonably priced tickets?
Thanks for any help.
#2Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 2:36pmYou might just have to get in line for cancellations for the dates you want.
#2Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 2:41pmJordan is right. The cancellation line is going to be your best bet. Shoot, even if you had remembered to purchase the day the box office opened, you may not have received tickets in that time frame (I was 26th in line and had to get the tickets almost a month apart seeing Pt. 2 before Pt. 1). I will be curious if tickets go up on Craiglist for WAY above the $20 face value for the first part of the run.
#3Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 2:43pm
"Jordan is right."
'Tis like music to my ears. 
#4Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 2:48pm
If cost is an issue, then you're only chance is to get in the cancellation line EARLY.
If cost is not an issue, then you can continue to search Craigslist for tickets, especially closer to those dates after the reviews come out.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
leota22
Swing Joined: 1/16/08
#5Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 2:51pmI thought of that, but I'm only going to be in the city for vacation for a few days (I live in Angels in America-less Houston). I don't want to travel all the way there for only a chance of getting tickets, you know? The whole point of my trip is to see the show. :)
#6Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 2:52pmWell unfortunately cancellations will be your only chance unless you want to pay the inflated broker prices which I'm sure you can find.
#7Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 2:53pmFor whatever reason, the cancellation line at The Signature is almost always a safe bet. I've done it for half a dozen shows and have always been seated. You shouldn't have any trouble.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
leota22
Swing Joined: 1/16/08
#8Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 2:59pmThanks for the thoughts, everyone. I think I'll take my chances on the cancellation line. What's the best time to get in line?
#9Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 3:01pmIt's really hard to say for this one. The earlier in the run, the less time I'd say. But as said before once those reviews come out, people will be there HOURS before the box office opens.
#10Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 3:02pm^ Agreed. I've gotten on line as early as 4:00 and as late as 7:30. It depends on the show, and when you're going to see it.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
leota22
Swing Joined: 1/16/08
#11Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 3:14pmCool. Thanks for the insight. You all really helped me! :)
#12Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 3:38pm
I missed the tickets as well. I'll have to remain content with seeing it on Broadway the first go-round. In consolation, I will, however, watch the old PBS special on Angels. It was pretty good, a behind the scenes look at the production with cast interviews and some pretty cool scenework.
The 'Ed Koch' line brought the house down. I had never heard such sustained laughter from an audience. Stephen Spinella was close to losing it as well!
angelplays
Stand-by Joined: 3/11/10
#13Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/10/10 at 7:47pm
"Shoot, even if you had remembered to purchase the day the box office opened, you may not have received tickets in that time frame (I was 26th in line and had to get the tickets almost a month apart seeing Pt. 2 before Pt. 1)."
Matty's right. I was 11th (ish, hard to tell) in line and there was really nothing in October at all. They had a sheet with available dates highlighted and there was a big old nothing highlighted pretty much all of October.
littlepaperstars
Understudy Joined: 3/19/09
#14Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/11/10 at 1:29pmI just bought two of the $85 tickets for dec/jan...that's more than I have ever spent on theater tickets at one time, and probably more than my textbooks for next semester. But I love the play and I trust that this cast will do it justice, so I think it's worth it.
My blog: http://thebroadwaybostonian.wordpress.com/
angelplays
Stand-by Joined: 3/11/10
#15Angels in America Tickets
Posted: 8/11/10 at 2:05pmYeah. I wanted to see them in order, so I ended up buying the $85 tix for a marathon day in January. The two of them together were more than I've spent on one show, but since it's for two, I figured it would be worth it given the material itself and those working with it.
