TKTS/TodayTix and other agencies

Thanks. I’d looked at the SOLT website earlier but I found it all rather confusing so I thought to aak here.

Just my twopence worth, sometimes it can he worth going direct to the theatre if you're after a good deal. Day seats of course but even in advance, for Austentatious at Fortune Theatre the brilliant bloke at the box office gave me fourth row stalls seats for the same price as Upper Circle saving me over £20!

I've just had the e mail. Sounds like a big of fun and worth a spin of the wheel.

It’s a good idea for the casual theatregoer but for someone like me (and I’m sure many fellow theatreboard folks), when you have already seen a lot of shows then you run the risk of getting a duplicate for something you’ve already booked or seen recently.

I quite like the adventure of that. So much of my theatre is planned out in advance, I'm going to make a point of doing this every so often.

I would consider this, but I'd like to know what kind of seats they are offering people first.

Only 4 though I believe.

Hmmm, seems they are all the shows which do Rush tickets anyway, which range from £20-£25 (except DEH which is £30). The difference being you get to decide to go that day, without deciding in advance (weather, travel, personal circumstances) and crucially you get to essentially pick your own seat - to an extent - on Rush by judicious use of waiting.

As of 2:30pm today I could've got £25 rush seats to Mamma Mia, BttF, Come From Away and several others, or £30 stalls to DEH or £20 seats to many plays.

For £19, a saving of £6 for most shows it offers it for. The seat could be ANYWHERE in the theatre, I checked the Ts and C's and there are no refunds. I'd pay £6 more for a full price seat than £19 for the worst seat in the house.

Exactly what I thought, it’s not like it used to be pre-Covid.
I’m just glad I live near London and can take advantage of the rush

I got middle of the back row at the Chocolate Factory which I'm pleased about.

Quite disappointed too with the allocation of seats for the shows I’m interested in. Even the £50 ones aren’t great.

Only booked & Juliet. £20 for front row. In previous years I have booked at least 5 shows.

Also pretty disappointed in the seats being offered in the New Year Sale, quite a lot of shows I was interested in it looks like they are only offering the back sections of each level. I managed to find a date with some fairly decent upper circle tickets for Back to the Future (most of the tickets in the lower levels were right at the back and I don't particularly want to watch that show through a letter box), and some front stalls for Bring It On, so that's some Christmas presents sorted. In previous years they've added more availability for the public sale and then throughout the following months so I think I'll hold off on anything else.

On a positive note at least the website only broke twice for a few seconds as I was using it. I remember multiple years where it's just completely failed to cope with the demand.

When Which investigate you have to report.

www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-10235167/The-bogus-Black-Friday-bargains-track-dozens-prices-year.html

I can still see the search box - but I think they had an 'advanced search' feature allowing to search for specific dates and matinee/evening (I forget what else) which seems to have disappeared since the latest update...