I'm participating in the Audience Rewards pre-sale of Something Rotten, and right now, I'm only being offered the Mezzanine (all the orchestra seats are dark for the date I'm looking at, April 30th.)
How is the front row Mezzanine at the theater? I'm looking at the Mezzanine Right front row.
Great view but I always find the seating anywhere in that theater uncomfortably tight and cramped...sat last time for Side Show center mezz row B 101 on the aisle helped out a bit with leg room
"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new."
Sunday in the Park with George
Bruce is right. I just sat there twice for SIDE SHOW, row B and row D, and the seats were superb, both slightly off-center but wonderful. Since I'm 6' tall, it wasn't entirely comfortable, but I sacrifice comfort for sightlines. It's one of the best mezz's in NYC, because you feel so close. (I would never sit in the mezz at the Gershwin or Minskoff, which remind me of the upper tiers at the Metropolitan Opera House.)
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
Saw Bullets Over Broadway from the front of the mezzanine and thought the seats and sight lines were great. I'm just shy of 6'3" and the knee situation wasn't horrible. At least, not nearly as bad as the Walter Kerr.
I've been sitting front row mezzanine at the St. James since I saw Hello, Dolly from there. The Producers, Side Show, Gypsy, Bullets Over Broadway, A Funny Thing Happened. . . God knows how many others.
My favorite seats in that theatre -- and I don't mind the side section in the least.
JBradshaw: I sat in I think L for Side Show in the rear Mezz and the view was fine. I did bring binoculars(yeah...) but they weren't really necessary. As "cheap seats" go, St. James' aren't bad at all.