Tickets

[samandryanmom]

My daughter and I are arriving Friday, October 14th and will be doing the Hamilton cancellation line that night. We're going to NYU all day Saturday but want to see a show that night as well as one or two on Sunday. She wants to see Avenue Q and Something Rotten. Our other possibilities are either School of Rock or Matilda. Should I buy tickets from home or use the discount tickets booth. She's 16 so if there are other suggestions, I welcome them. Thank you, Kerri 

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Go to TKTS, if you don't mind even more waiting around. All four of those shows were on the board today, so you should be good. Keep an eye on the website (or app) to see what shows are available. TKTS

[hes16]

Or use goldstar or TodayTix which both have $45 orchestra tickets for Avenue Q and relatively inexpensive tickets to Something Rotten. I have seen all four of those shows pop up on tdf as well (all tickets will be under $50 each when you use that, so maybe the membership would be a worthwhile investment and would most likely pay for itself after one use). SOR would be the one most likely to not be on tdf however. So I would go with tkts for that or rush.

Also, if you are comfortable with this, she or you could go over to rush another show while one of you waits in the cancellation line since the policy is that one person can get up to two tickets.

[h6p8gv]

Do not miss SOmething Rotten it is so funny

[haterobics]

Most of those have decent discounts, particularly in advance. That said, many of them also have lotteries, so you could try your luck and as soon as you know you didn't win, just buy them using a code online or at TKTS.

Also, not sure how crazy the Hamilton cancellation line is these days, but if you're arriving on Friday, I'm not sure you be getting to see that Friday night, as many people are still queuing up pretty early at like 6 a.m. and such. So... you may have another opening on Friday.

[Broadway_Boy]

Avenue Q and Something Rotten if you each got to one box office an hour before opening you could get rush tickets for $25 for Q and $32 tix for Rotten.  For Hamilton, if you can't get there a few hours beforehand it probably won't be worth it.  

[samandryanmom]

All good suggestions. I'll look into the rush and lottery for these shows. It sounds like the ticket booth is a wait. Would you choose school of rock over Matilda? As for the cancellation line at Hamilton, we're landing at 10 so hopefully we'll get there by two. Is that usually too late? 

[PThespian]

Of course I'm going to say SOR. 

In reality, though, other than both having kids in them they are two totally different kinds of shows. 

SOR gets a lot of adults who enjoy it and generally kids in their teens. 

I can't speak for certain about Matilda, but I get the sense their kid audience tends to be younger. 

Of course the style of music is very different too. While SOR has ballads, quadrilles, chorus numbers and even a bit of opera the focus is on rock. 

In fact for the last 15 minutes the show takes place at a rock concert and has the look and sound of one. 

Again I only saw Matilda once, and that was after it first opened, but I seem to recall most of the music was of a different genre. 

Check out the movie version of SOR. If you like that you'll love what's going on over at the Winter Garden. 

If you like the book Matilda then that's the one to go with. 

 

[haterobics]

samandryanmom said: "As for the cancellation line at Hamilton, we're landing at 10 so hopefully we'll get there by two. Is that usually too late? "

There is an entire cancellation line thread on here with more info, but that sounds too late to me, unless things have really gotten easy since the OBC mainly left.