Attending an Opening Night
Attending an Opening Night
jacobsnchz14
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
#1Attending an Opening Night
Posted: 10/23/15 at 2:10pm
I see the new dates for She Loves Me and was wondering if it's possible that tickets will be available for purchase maybe closer to time? I called and there wasn't much info yet, I guess. I know they're usually VIP sort of things but I was wondering because I think a few BWW members have attended opening nights. Thanks!
PS If nothing else, I may buy a ticket for the last preview or first performance, post-opening since I'm in town that week.
brdway411
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/14
#2Attending an Opening Night
Posted: 10/23/15 at 2:13pm
Follow them on Facebook and Twitter, if they release opening night tickets, they usually will post there first.
#3Attending an Opening Night
Posted: 10/23/15 at 2:13pm
For an opening night, I would recommend starting about a week before the date, then checking a couple of times a day. I attended the opening night of Cyrano de Bergerac with Kline and Garner, and I was able to get great seats a week before. We sat across the aisle from Ben Affleck.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#4Attending an Opening Night
Posted: 10/23/15 at 2:19pm
I have gotten opening night tickets to OTHER DESERT CITIES and LADY DAY AT EMERSON'S BAR & GRILL. Neither show had tickets available for that day this much in advance. For DESERT CITIES I got tickets about a week before, for LADY DAY they didn't become available until the day before (two at most, I forget now). Also, for LADY DAY I had to get them at the box office.
I couldn't recommend attending an opening night performance enough. The electricity in the room, at least for these two plays, was palpable and the performers seem to really feed off of it. I'll never forget watching Audra McDonald open LADY DAY, it's one of the most special memories I have.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#5Attending an Opening Night
Posted: 10/23/15 at 3:37pm
I couldn't recommend attending an opening night performance enough.
TRUE. I have been to a few and it is always special I went to Rain. Rock Of Ages, La Cage and Jekyll & Hyde.
"Forget regret or life is yours to miss."
#6Attending an Opening Night
Posted: 10/23/15 at 6:47pm
I attended the opening night performances of The Heiress, The Realistic Jones, The Audience, Finding Neverland, and, most recently, Spring Awakening. But, that's only because they made tickets to the opening night performance available to the general public. I know that tickets to the opening night of Sylvia next week (October 27) are available to the general public.
"Mostly, I loved the size of these people's emotions. Nobody has emotions this size anymore. Outsized emotions. Operatic emotions. Kushemski and Vanda are like Tristan and Isolde, they're Paolo and Francesca. Nobody's in total thrall like this anymore. Nobody's overcome by passion like this, or goes through this kind of rage." Thomas, Venus in Fur
