Ticket says "Cast House"?
Ticket says "Cast House"?
#1Ticket says "Cast House"?
Posted: 1/22/15 at 3:20amHello, I am new to posting here but I had a question that maybe some of you could help me with. I recently saw CABARET with my family and loved it! However, the other day, while going through my bag I found the envelope containing our tickets. I noticed that there were 4 tickets and one receipt. We had only purchased 3 tickets though and the price we paid added up to exactly those 3. The fourth ticket has a different price than the others and instead of saying "orch" for the section as the others do, it says "cast house". Did the box office mistakenly give us an extra ticket or something? And what section is cast house supposed to be. Any knowledge about this would be awesome, as I am insanely curious! Thanks!
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#2Ticket says
Posted: 1/22/15 at 9:45am
Call them.
That's where the ticket came from.
Is it a receipt?
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#2Ticket says
Posted: 1/22/15 at 9:48am
^It doesn't really effect anything as they already saw the show.
I've never heard of such a thing, I'd be curious as well. I'm guessing it was a tix for a house seat (ones that are held for cast members)
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#3Ticket says
Posted: 1/22/15 at 9:55amThis sounds like a wonderful setup to a psychological thriller.
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#4Ticket says
Posted: 1/22/15 at 1:45pm
I'm having a hard time understanding the story, but if I have it right, you already saw the show, used the tickets, and these were the tickets handed back to you after giving them to the usher or ticket taker? If so, then I suspect the usher or ticket taker accidentally gave you one that someone just before you used. That's why it's not included in the price or the receipt. And that HAS happened to me before.
#5Ticket says
Posted: 1/22/15 at 1:47pmThat ticket gets you backstage to Alan and Emma for champagne and caviar. Sorry you missed out on that.
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#6Ticket says
Posted: 1/22/15 at 3:15pmSounds like you were mistakenly given one of the house seats reserved for cast members to purchase at the box office.
#7Ticket says
Posted: 1/22/15 at 3:52pmI'm also still confused about these tickets. Did they include the actual seat numbers as all tickets do? And are you saying there weren't originally 4 tickets when yo went to the show, but somehow you ended up with 4 AFTER the show?
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#9Ticket says
Posted: 1/22/15 at 4:30pm
"I'm also still confused about these tickets. Did they include the actual seat numbers as all tickets do? And are you saying there weren't originally 4 tickets when yo went to the show, but somehow you ended up with 4 AFTER the show?"
I think this is what they're saying, yes.
#10Ticket says
Posted: 1/22/15 at 10:58pm
Okay, more to the story...
The tickets were reserved through another relative who is a benefactor at another theatre. She got them through the service said theatre uses and we picked the tickets up at Studio 54's box office window. They came in one of those envelopes which we handed to the usher to scan. So we paid for 3 tickets, started out with 4. I just didnt notice until later. I'm ataching a picture which includes 3 of the 4 tickets. (Imagine one more for seat 2 at table 256, that one is in my playbill which i don't have on me at the moment.)
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Updated On: 1/23/15 at 10:58 PM
#11Ticket says
Posted: 1/23/15 at 3:42amAlso, yes everyone, I'm aware this seems irrelevant, I'm just curious as it is a weird occurance and kind of interesting in my opinion.
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#12Ticket says
Posted: 1/23/15 at 5:27amSince the fourth ticket, "cast house" is for your same table and is for seat 4, was that seat empty? If it was, then somehow you ended up with an extra ticket. I would still make sure your relative isn't charged for that extra ticket. Even if it isn't included in the receipt you got, it maybe tacked on to a second charge.
#14Ticket says
Posted: 1/23/15 at 6:13amI'm a little surprised the cast only gets a 10 dollar discount.
#15Ticket says
Posted: 1/23/15 at 7:02am
At a Roundabout show, starting a little bit after showtime, they fill the empty seats with subscribers who couldn't make their originally assigned date. If the 4th seat was filled after 8pm, that's probably what happened. If there was someone sitting there well before 8, then that was their assigned seat.
If that 4th seat was occupied by a seatfiller, I agree I would call Roundabout to make sure you weren't charged for the 4th seat by mistake.
Someone who is more in the know can correct me, but I didn't think the cast for a Broadway show typically gets a special ticket discount at all. If they want house seats, I believe that they usually pay full price. I'm guessing that the "cast house" seat is cheaper because the ticket was bought earlier and the price has gone up. Either that or the cast house price didn't change with the price increase. When the show opened, the top price was $162 and that became $172 at some point in the run.
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#16Ticket says
Posted: 1/23/15 at 9:19am
"Someone who is more in the know can correct me, but I didn't think the cast for a Broadway show typically gets a special ticket discount at all. If they want house seats, I believe that they usually pay full price."
Correct.
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#18Ticket says
Posted: 1/23/15 at 5:22pmIt was an unused House Seat. Cast House is the price on the seat. My guess is that the tix were House Seats and the fourth one wasn't purchased by a cast member (and why it was less expensive) and got in your envelope by accident. The only people "comped" are probably those given away to try to fill the other 2/3 of the house for "On the Town"!
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#19Ticket says
Posted: 1/23/15 at 6:08pm
Actually, Cast House is the great-grandson of Alexander House, one of the leading producers on Broadway in the 1920s.
Back in the day, Alexander would be nervous about a show's success, and when ticket sales were low on a particular night, he wasn't able to have a good dinner. But, when sales were brisk and a show was a hit, he would have lavish meals.
As short hand, people would ask the box office, so how are "the seats" looking for tonight? And the box office manager said, "House will be full," in reference to how much Alexander would be happy and eating that night, after they told him the numbers.
Over time, it changed the lexicon, and "the seats" as they used to call them, started being directly referred to as "the house," so, the "house is full," "the house isn't doing too well tonight," etc., were all a knowing reference to Alexander House, and the state of his daily meal, even though After Eight and Fantod are probably the only two familiar with Alexander at this point.
Sadly, he had a season where three shows of his were hits at the same time, and all of the rich food led to him having a heart attack. Although, some people thought a rival producer had poisoned him and demanded an autopsy.
His autopsy led to the term, "Open the house," which is still used 30 minutes before every showtime to this day by the staff to open the theater to the public. And, the amount of impacted food in his colon, rumored to be 50 pounds, was the origin of something being a "packed house."
So, if someone was at your table at Cabaret, it was Cast, his grandson, who is sadly unknown by many in the theater community his great-grandfather Alexander helped to create. Although, he and his wife just had a son, Press Comp House, so he may have canceled at the last minute.
Mystery solved.
#20Ticket says
Posted: 1/23/15 at 7:08pm
Hater- I would LOVE to see Cast House-the musical. Maybe Andrew Lippa could write the score and Harvey the book?
Dream casting for Alexander House?
#21Ticket says
Posted: 1/24/15 at 1:02amThanks for the answers guys! I'm thinking now that it may have just been an extra ticket, as the seat next to us, the one that says "cast house" remained empty for the entire show. Also the reservation shows specifically that the tickets we purchased were house seats held for us to pick up by the manager since they were pre-printed and left for us, perhaps our little guy was accidentally slipped into the mix. I checked and we were not charged for the "extra", so I believe that it was just a misprint, I may call the theatre out of sheer curiosity in the next few days, I will report back if I can get a final answer on this.
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#22Ticket says
Posted: 1/24/15 at 1:16am
"I may call the theatre out of sheer curiosity in the next few days"
This would be better as a video call, so you can see the confused look on their face... "So, you bought three tickets?" Yes. "And you sat in those three seats?" Yes. "And you were accidentally given a fourth ticket at your table?" Yes. "And no one sat in that one?" No. (long delay) "So, what do you need to know from me exactly?"
#23Ticket says
Posted: 1/24/15 at 3:28am
"This would be better as a video call, so you can see the confused look on their face... "So, you bought three tickets?" Yes. "And you sat in those three seats?" Yes. "And you were accidentally given a fourth ticket at your table?" Yes. "And no one sat in that one?" No. (long delay) "So, what do you need to know from me exactly?""
haterobics, I may be new to posting, but I'm very used to reading your hilariously snarky comments, I'm honored that I now have some of them on my very first post. :)
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#24Ticket says
Posted: 1/24/15 at 6:49am"So,what do you need to know from me exactly?" Loganberry, needs to verify with Roundabout that there is NOT a charge to the relative's charge account for the fourth ticket, that wasn't requested, ordered and used by their party. Just because it isn't on the original charge, doesn't mean there isn't a second charge floating around somewhere. I would be doing EXACTLY the same thing. It's called taking care of your business. Ignoring the situation, only leads to aggravation down the road.
