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Post by Steve on Mar 25, 2019 12:35:01 GMT
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Post by demonbarber on Mar 25, 2019 12:58:28 GMT
Thanks so much for sharing this! Was waiting in the online queue on the Old Vic site and have just found perfect seats on the day I wanted. For anyone else looking there is plenty of availability on this offer |
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Post by MrBunbury on Mar 25, 2019 13:02:37 GMT
I will wait for the £10 stall ticket for a preview because I like to live dangerously :-)
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Post by crowblack on Mar 25, 2019 13:05:48 GMT
Brilliant! Just bagged row F but they're going fast - my first two disappeared before I got them in the basket. |
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Post by sf on Mar 25, 2019 13:08:07 GMT
I was in the queue for about 50 minutes - painless enough, I was getting on with other things in another window - and I got exactly what I wanted (one of the rail-in-eyeline seats in the dress circle, and preferably one of the ones in row B). Worth the wait, those seats are an absolute bargain.
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Post by raiseitup on Mar 25, 2019 13:57:23 GMT
TodayTix also have a Band A ticket offer for £40
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Post by nash16 on Mar 25, 2019 13:59:43 GMT
Looks like good availability so I might wait for the PWC previews - also there's a mysterious 'stage stalls' not yet on sale. Same for All My Sons, but when I asked they said it's a hangover (in more sense than one, maybe) from The American Clock seating plan. |
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Post by crowblack on Mar 25, 2019 14:14:45 GMT
I've just had a look but the What's On Stage shows a seat availability plan and lets you pick your own while the Todaytix allocated me row Q but didn't show options (I didn't experiment though). |
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Post by david on Mar 25, 2019 14:53:14 GMT
Thanks for the info. Stalls Row J ticket sorted for the June 22nd preview. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 14:57:31 GMT
Was expecting a horrendous queue for this one but got my favourite seat in the Old Vic by 10 past 12.
I don't know much about Scott's non stage career and was led to believe that there'd be a ridiculous demand for this.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 16:40:02 GMT
Was expecting a horrendous queue for this one but got my favourite seat in the Old Vic by 10 past 12. I don't know much about Scott's non stage career and was led to believe that there'd be a ridiculous demand for this. And also after Seawall was such a smash. Not complaining, I haven’t got round to booking yet. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2019 21:29:37 GMT
You’ll all be relieved to know I have now booked. Ended up doing ‘From the Box Office’ because I was only seeing full price tickets on the site linked to before. Am sure it was user error on my part. Like crowblack, TodayTix only offered me seats very far back in the stalls, (Q) and I find it very claustrophobic in that bit of the Old Vic. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 8:07:00 GMT
Just had a look at tickets for this and was surprised by how much there is left!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 9:38:27 GMT
Just had a look at tickets for this and was surprised by how much there is left! Is there an element of fans of Scott's TV work having had enough opportunity to see him 'in the flesh' already so removing the desire/need to see him again? As I said, I know next to nothing about his television work and had to look him up on Wikipedia when he was cast in Hamlet. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 9:49:01 GMT
Is it just maybe a big expensive theatre (and no matter how much they like to make it clear that there are cheaper tickets available, people are still going to look at the stalls and be put off by a big section of £125 tickets; even if they look around the theatre, they might then conclude that the £12 seats are only going to be 1/10th as good and therefore it's just not worth going at all) and the tickets only went on public sale yesterday?  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 14:46:45 GMT
Is it just maybe a big expensive theatre (and no matter how much they like to make it clear that there are cheaper tickets available, people are still going to look at the stalls and be put off by a big section of £125 tickets; even if they look around the theatre, they might then conclude that the £12 seats are only going to be 1/10th as good and therefore it's just not worth going at all) and the tickets only went on public sale yesterday? I hadn't put this into words until now, but my experience with American Clock has made me very wary of the Old Vic. It's silly really because I have seen so much good stuff there (SO MUCH!) but I haven't booked for All My Sons (and won't) until it opens because American Clock was so far from my thing. I wouldn't have booked Present Laughter if Andrew Scott weren't in it. He's my "reading the telephone book" actor. Oddly enough, I hated Tortured too, and now I think about it, I haven't booked anything upcoming at the National either. |
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Post by sf on Mar 26, 2019 15:49:51 GMT
Was expecting a horrendous queue for this one but got my favourite seat in the Old Vic by 10 past 12. I don't know much about Scott's non stage career and was led to believe that there'd be a ridiculous demand for this. And also after Seawall was such a smash. Not complaining, I haven’t got round to booking yet.
Sea Wall was a two-week run, which probably has a lot to do with why tickets went much more quickly on the day booking opened. For THIS, that initial surge of demand was spread across a much greater number of performances.
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Post by crowblack on Mar 26, 2019 16:03:27 GMT
haven't booked anything upcoming I haven't got much booked in advance either this year. I used to, to save on train tickets with advance fares, but I've had so many disappointments I've decided it's better to wait for reviews and maybe brave the National Express coach again, unless it's a tiny theatre and an actor or writer I love. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 17:20:13 GMT
And also after Seawall was such a smash. Not complaining, I haven’t got round to booking yet.
Sea Wall was a two-week run, which probably has a lot to do with why tickets went much more quickly on the day booking opened. For THIS, that initial surge of demand was spread across a much greater number of performances.
True. And also a reprisal of something very well received, I think? |
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Post by showgirl on Mar 27, 2019 5:33:53 GMT
Certainly experience with the Old Vic (eg the dire 17c and the not-wholly-successful Wise Children and The American Clock) has taught me to wait for reviews and offers.
Also, Present Laughter is a play which comes round far too often and though there'll always be people who've never seen it or not too frequently, I've had enough of it and find it a disappointing choice for this venue.
And lastly, Andrew Scott is no draw for me and I don't get the fuss about him; in fact, I'd probably prefer not to see him. (Yes, heresy to some.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2019 8:18:53 GMT
haven't booked anything upcoming I haven't got much booked in advance either this year. I used to, to save on train tickets with advance fares, but I've had so many disappointments I've decided it's better to wait for reviews and maybe brave the National Express coach again, unless it's a tiny theatre and an actor or writer I love. I’ve got a lot booked, unlike you, just none of it here or at the National. I’d definitely be more circumspect if a theatre trip involved the planning and booking of yours. Whereabouts do you live? |
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Post by kathryn on Mar 27, 2019 10:05:13 GMT
And also after Seawall was such a smash. Not complaining, I haven’t got round to booking yet.
Sea Wall was a two-week run, which probably has a lot to do with why tickets went much more quickly on the day booking opened. For THIS, that initial surge of demand was spread across a much greater number of performances.
Plus, it was actually written for Andrew Scott, and is rarely performed by him, which made it just that little bit more special. |
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Post by MrsCondomine on Mar 27, 2019 10:16:52 GMT
Certainly experience with the Old Vic (eg the dire 17c and the not-wholly-successful Wise Children and The American Clock) has taught me to wait for reviews and offers. Also, Present Laughter is a play which comes round far too often and though there'll always be people who've never seen it or not too frequently, I've had enough of it and find it a disappointing choice for this venue. And lastly, Andrew Scott is no draw for me and I don't get the fuss about him; in fact, I'd probably prefer not to see him. (Yes, heresy to some.) This is my view, too. The OV has such wild veering in quality from play to play it's unreal. I also don't think Scott can do anything beyond "slightly unhinged," which he proved in spades in Birdland. If he can give a character tear-filled crazy eyes, by God he will do it. |
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Post by crowblack on Mar 27, 2019 16:40:10 GMT
Liverpool, so quite a trek if it's a disappointing play. |
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Post by kathryn on May 13, 2019 11:08:17 GMT
Oh, 2608 in the queue - so I'm not getting a PWC preview ticket for this, then, am I?
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