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Post by theatreliker on Jan 16, 2017 19:53:06 GMT
Going early December - very excited.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 16, 2017 19:56:02 GMT
Well I'm glad I had multiple windows and devices open as I was offered the upper circle for £89!! I DONT THINK SO.
2 seconds later on my iPad- Stallls H for the same price.
I suspect the on sale day to the great unwashed is going to be carnage. I'm thinking we'all have another Harry Potter situation where it's sold out a year ahead before even opening.
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Post by Kenneth_C on Jan 16, 2017 20:28:38 GMT
It's a bit rich that the PTB want to stamp out people getting ripped off on the secondary market when they themselves are ripping people off on the initial sale. Seems a bit sour grapey to me. Which is precisely what happened in the US. The producers of Hamilton on Broadway saw the prices that the brokers were asking and so jacked up their prices to match. Premium tickets on Broadway are currently $849 (£700).
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jan 16, 2017 20:33:09 GMT
It's a bit rich that the PTB want to stamp out people getting ripped off on the secondary market when they themselves are ripping people off on the initial sale. Seems a bit sour grapey to me. Which is precisely what happened in the US. The producers of Hamilton on Broadway saw the prices that the brokers were asking and so jacked up their prices to match. Premium tickets on Broadway are currently $849 (£700). Exploitation.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 20:37:41 GMT
Is it pointless asking what people think the view from the dress circle slips may be like?
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Post by daniel on Jan 16, 2017 20:43:21 GMT
Is it pointless asking what people think the view from the dress circle slips may be like? Short answer, yes. Not-quite-as-short answer, you should have a generally good view, but I would expect that you will have some level of restriction of the extreme side/rear of the stage.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 20:46:22 GMT
Well, I wouldn't worry if you didn't get tickets. Viagogo et al are selling tickets at over £2,000! So much for the best efforts of the powers-that-be to stamp out this kind of thing. Interesting to see what happens when someone buying a ticket this way turns up at the Box Office. Just had a look and Viagogo appears to be reselling small numbers tickets for 2 or 3 dates for stupid money. Presumably the impact of the anti-scalping measures is that without them there would already be loads of tickets for most dates on there. Meanwhile - law of unintended consequences had led to quite a few unhappy people on twitter who have booked tickets via their parent's credit cards (presumably with permission!) and now realise they may not be able to collect them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 20:48:54 GMT
Well, I wouldn't worry if you didn't get tickets. Viagogo et al are selling tickets at over £2,000! So much for the best efforts of the powers-that-be to stamp out this kind of thing. Interesting to see what happens when someone buying a ticket this way turns up at the Box Office. Meanwhile - law of unintended consequences had led to quite a few unhappy people on twitter who have booked tickets via their parent's credit cards (presumably with permission!) and now realise they may not be able to collect them. This happened to me with Kate Bush but honestly I think in this case it's their own fault. The email with the code (aka an email they must have seen) did state the rules clearly.
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Post by dizzieblonde on Jan 16, 2017 21:13:23 GMT
Meanwhile - law of unintended consequences had led to quite a few unhappy people on twitter who have booked tickets via their parent's credit cards (presumably with permission!) and now realise they may not be able to collect them. This happened to me with Kate Bush but honestly I think in this case it's their own fault. The email with the code (aka an email they must have seen) did state the rules clearly. I suspect someone must have found a workaround - for £2000, I don't expect anyone to be paying that blind, and then getting a rejection at the door. It appears foolproof but there are caveats about the cards used to pay. For example, for me, I will have to notify Ticketmaster about my card's expiry (expires very soon, but haven't received my new one yet, so had to pay on the current one). Hence I will have my original email, plus (according to the website), a secondary one transferring those tickets to my new card details, so that I can safely collect them. You better believe I will be calling TM customer services to double and triple check that nothing will go wrong, but I do have well over a year to make sure everything is in order. I hope there's not ways around the paperless system, because it seems like such a secure way to prevent resales, and it hopefully will be the way forward to eliminate all of those sh*te secondary sales sites. However, I wonder about people who may have tickets bought for them as gifts (I've seen vids already today of teary teens who've been surprised with news about Hamilton tickets). I've frequently received theatre tickets as birthday or Xmas gifts, and this seems like a particularly harsh penalisation, if people who perhaps could never have afforded to go to the musical, and have generous friends, relatives or loved ones who want to gift them tickets, aren't able to do so. I considered buying my SIL a ticket as she has a big birthday coming up this year, but knowing she'd want to take my brother, I'd held off, due to the card restrictions. My only alternative is to give my brother my code, and transfer him the money, and he buys the tickets out of my allocation, but I expect that won't be an option for others. I actually only discovered this was an option to me from this board, when helpful people let me know my code wasn't a 'one-use only' thing, and I could continue to buy a second pair of tickets, up to my ticket allocation limit, during the sale period.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 21:14:06 GMT
How high is the stage?
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Post by jaqs on Jan 16, 2017 21:25:04 GMT
What's up with the first Saturday matinee not being on sale? That caught me out. I gave up as booking on my phone was so hit and miss forcing it to not use the Mobile site. Ticketmaster is blocked at work.
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Post by ctas on Jan 16, 2017 21:39:33 GMT
Managed to grab two pairs of tickets for January 2018 (yikes) performances, row C of the grand circle for both and I'll get to sample seats 1-4 in that row over those two performances. Hopefully they'll be alright.
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Post by Ade on Jan 16, 2017 22:12:00 GMT
Surely to get around the card restriction is as easy as paying for it on a cash passport top-up visa type card and then handing that over at the point of selling on the ticket? Obviously that doesn't solve the ID issue but the touts have got around that one before.
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Post by fiyero on Jan 16, 2017 22:50:53 GMT
I can see the card thing as the issue. Hopefully there is a staff override if it is obvious it is the right person but they didn't think of a theatre ticket they booked over a year ago when they changed banks. I've booked for Novermer, January and June 2018! and my card already looks a bit worn!!
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Post by infofreako on Jan 16, 2017 22:55:49 GMT
I can see the card thing as the issue. Hopefully there is a staff override if it is obvious it is the right person but they didn't think of a theatre ticket they booked over a year ago when they changed banks. I've booked for Nobermer, January and June 2028! and my card already looks a bit worn!! Theres something that you can book that far in advance?
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Post by stuart on Jan 16, 2017 23:08:50 GMT
I used to work at a large arena where they've done the paperless ticketing thing for tours in the past and it worked for 99.9% of people.
You don't "collect" tickets, they swipe your card on the way in, check your ID and that will then print out a seating stub for you to find your seats in the auditorium (similar to the ticket machines train conductors carry). It takes seconds. Not much longer than ripping a ticket stub to be honest.
Ticketmaster will send out various reminders in the run up to the show that the tickets are paperless, you won't receive tickets, get in touch if your card has changed etc and this tends to work for most people meaning issues are resolved before the event.
The issue for the 0.01% comes when they haven't checked their emails, don't remember what card they bought the ticket on, bring the wrong card or simply haven't read the T&Cs. They were hard to miss with Hamilton but I imagine it will be the last one which catches most people out. Ticketmaster do seem to be quite sympathetic with people on Twitter today offering to change the card and name etc.
Touts do still get around this. They just buy an extra ticket they don't sell, charge you for that spare ticket (hence the extortionate pricing), arrive with you at the venue, come in with you once the tickets have been collected and ID shown and then leave. At least, that's what we saw happening. Obviously stops bigger tout businesses from operating but the odd scalper here or there can get around it (but will probably need to live locally to the Victoria Palace to actually bother).
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Post by fiyero on Jan 16, 2017 23:13:12 GMT
I can see the card thing as the issue. Hopefully there is a staff override if it is obvious it is the right person but they didn't think of a theatre ticket they booked over a year ago when they changed banks. I've booked for Nobermer, January and June 2028! and my card already looks a bit worn!! Theres something that you can book that far in advance? It does seem that far away but typos corrected
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Post by mrbarnaby on Jan 16, 2017 23:19:52 GMT
Does anyone know how firm the seats will be in the stalls? And how much the programmes will be?
I've never been to a theatre before.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 23:49:28 GMT
Ticketmaster do seem to be quite sympathetic with people on Twitter today offering to change the card and name etc. Oh, I wish I'd known that before cancelling my wedding.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 23:51:57 GMT
Does anyone know how firm the seats will be in the stalls? And how much the programmes will be? I've never been to a theatre before. How big are the snow-globes? As it's a royal palace, do I have to wear a tiara?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 23:53:23 GMT
And will the actors come out to sign my crap and pose for selfies with me after matinees?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 23:54:24 GMT
Is Alex Jennings in Episode One?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 5:48:29 GMT
And will the actors come out to sign my crap Now I need to get hold of a coprolite so I can get someone to autograph it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 8:56:00 GMT
For anyone curious late April/May/June have lots of tickets across the prices still (mostly). After much debate I booked for myself and the Mother for May Day weekend 2018 (seeing it with a friend from the very cheap seats in March)
I went for the restricted view slips in the circle, still expensive but not 'heart attack when the bill comes' expensive!
Having seen it once seeing it as soon as it opens wasn't a priority (and I tend to go on holiday in Oct/Nov) so waiting a while is fine.
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Post by schuttep on Jan 17, 2017 9:49:44 GMT
Provisional plan now up at: theatremonkey.com/VICTORIAPALACEstalls.htmLooks like the upper circle has the same layout - were bars at the front, now they seem to rv only the centre aisle for 4 rows. Just watch for legroom. Width in stalls and dress is almost the same, bit narrower in the front stalls than I expected. Rear stalls is wider and shallower than before. Dress circle is about the same apart from infill of the front rows. Theatremonkey's plan seems to differ from that on Ticketmaster, used to buy the actual seats. On Theatremonkey's plan my tix are at the side, on Ticketmaster's they are centre.
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