It's been a while, but I believe that last row on house right may have a partial view of the staircase. This image from the show's website gives a good perspective.
I got rush for the Sunday evening performance this past weekend. We didn't get to the box office until about 1:30pm and were offered Row L rear mezzanine on the center aisle for $30. We didn't ask on the locations for the $50 or $75 seats. The view from there was good, but we were able to move down to about the sixth row center mezzanine at intermission, which obviously was a lot better.
I was at the theater today around 12:15pm and there was quite a line still going. It was out the door and running west towards 8th. My girlfriend was looking for tickets to the matinee and luckily one of the windows was taking walkups for current sale and we didn't have to wait long. Looks like it was a busy morning/afternoon at the Shubert.
cjmclaughlin10 said: "The website now says that all performances are completely sold out It also says to check back Thursday after 1pm for “additional releases”. Could they be adding Sunday performances? Extending? Added benefit performance?"
From what I've heard it's an additional row of seats at each performance, not any added performances.
Springsteen has to be in SAG-AFTRA or ASCAP (or both) and I'd imagine that that is sufficient standing for the IATSE and Local 751 members that work at the Kerr.
I was in the same row as PThespian on Saturday (and this coming Thursday) and I thought the view was just fine. I was initially worried about the sound quality, but I heard every word. The production is so massive that it really doesn't hurt being that far back.
round2 said: "I'm also excited to see this cast in this play. Does anyone have knowledge or even a hunch about when the Golden box office will be open for it?"
Telecharge's page for the show says that the box office is opening on January 3rd.
The house opened on time, it's the auditorium that wasn't open until 12:45pm. The intermission was only a few minutes longer today than it normally is for this production. Not sure why you think the show should have ended at 2:50pm today. That would make it an hour fifty, it's normally around two hours forty.