Fun Home - Young Vic

If you booked through the Young Vic, email the box office to ask where they've put you, they're usually pretty good about responding.

Our definitions of barely sold at all obviously differ! First week sold out and only a handful left at most performances until the end of July unless I'm missing something

Looking at the seat plan for this production, the (unpleasant) gallery does not appear to be on sale for Fun Home (or, for that matter, for The Inheritance). Whether that means they'll put Lucky Dip patrons up there, I don't know; I booked a £10 (not Lucky Dip) ticket for Wings and was assigned a seat up there (it had been a fair while since I'd been in the Young Vic, I didn't even know they had seats up there when I booked), and at that performance three people, me included, got to their seats and just. could. not. stay. there. While I'm not keen on heights, I'm more than familiar with cheap theatre seats and I've been in pretty much every balcony and upper circle in the West End, and I think the gallery in the Young Vic is the only time in 30+ years of solo theatregoing where I've got to a seat and had an immediate, visceral reaction that I couldn't sit there. The ushers found alternative seats for all three of us (we were three individual patrons rather than a group of three), which they didn't have to do; I got the distinct impression that people having that reaction to those gallery seats was not exactly unusual. The £10 seats for Fun Home appear to be in the balcony, rather than the gallery, and right at the far ends of the second row - so more or less a side-on view, close to the stage; I would not be all that surprised if they'd simply stopped selling those gallery seats on the basis that they're more trouble than they are worth.

I booked about 6 tickets for the first performance for me and some friends during members booking before the ticket limit notice was on the site. YV haven’t contacted me to say I can’t have all those tickets and the bookings are all on my account so I’m hoping it’s ok? I’m too scared to ask in case they take some of my tickets back and I have to disappoint my friends!

I'd say as the notice wasn't up when you bought them, and that they haven't noticed/flagged it up then you're well within your rights to fight it if they questioned it. Personally I'd stick with the 'don't say anything' approach as it's doubtful the person on box office on the day would notice/do anything. 

Although I don’t think the timeframe Jenna will leave Eastenders has been announced, Jenna Russell please.

I was in the same quandary and emailed them about this.  I already have 2 tickets booked through todaytix, and the response they gave me was:

"Thank you for getting in touch. Yes you will be able to purchase 2 extra tickets through our website if you so wish"

Yeah this has to be Jenna for me. From the moment it was announced, she was my guess.

Let’s hope Jenna’s EE departure is timed for a segue into Fun Home? She’d be perfect.

I heard a rumour a few weeks ago that it she was going into this. But wasn't sure if it was just wishful thinking!

When you think about it, this might explain why the casting for Fun Home has not been announced yet, despite the first preview being roughly three months away - which is slightly odd for the UK premiere of a show that was very well received by both audience and critics in its Off-Broadway and Broadway incarnations.  

Revealing Jenna's commitment to be on stage, even for a limited run, would have effectively meant revealing to the general public that something (potentially bad?) would soon be happening to her character on Eastenders to justify her disappearance.  In this context, it would make sense for the producers to agree to withhold casting information until "the last minute". 


Yet, now that Jenna herself has tweeted that she wasn't "axed", but fancied doing something else... and this would clearly be right up her street... come on Young Vic people, spill the beans already!