New York City!
I just booked flight and room reservations for 6 days in New York City over Spring Break! This will be my FIRST TIME visiting the Big Apple! I am so excited, I can't keep from bouncing everywhere. I'm devoting this wonderful vacation to ME and BROADWAY!
Midtown Manhattan
I've already got front row seats for WICKED, my favorite musical currently starring my favorite cast (who were in the SF Tour). My great NYC friend Stefanie hunted down the near-impossible to get tickets for me!
Also, I got myself rear mezzanine tickets for my second-favorite musical, SWEENEY TODD, the revival starring Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone! This is going to be freakin' sweet. Sondheim is amazing and the staging for the new revival is stellar!
Additionally, there are about 4 other shows I hope to see. Thankfully, Stefanie and my other NYC friend, Gretchen, are masters of student-rush and lottos. I'm almost guaranteed to get tickets to my third-favorite musical, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA because they sell same-day student rush tickets for $30. Plus, if I play my cards right, I could see tons of other Broadway shows by playing 3 or even 4 lottos a day! Or just make best-friends with a little something called TKTS, which is a tourist-treat, who sell Broadway show tickets for 1/2 price.
Plus I'm going to devote a day or two for exploring Central Park, the Financial District, catch a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty, Bryant Park, Madison Square Garden, the Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building... too much! I'll become the master of the subway system. My hostel is on 103rd & Amsterdam in the Upper West Side, right next to Gretchen at Columbia University. It's gonna be perfect!
But the point is: I'M GOING TO NYC! I've never been so ecstatic in my life! Spring Break can't come soon enough!
Midtown Manhattan
I've already got front row seats for WICKED, my favorite musical currently starring my favorite cast (who were in the SF Tour). My great NYC friend Stefanie hunted down the near-impossible to get tickets for me!
Also, I got myself rear mezzanine tickets for my second-favorite musical, SWEENEY TODD, the revival starring Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone! This is going to be freakin' sweet. Sondheim is amazing and the staging for the new revival is stellar!
Additionally, there are about 4 other shows I hope to see. Thankfully, Stefanie and my other NYC friend, Gretchen, are masters of student-rush and lottos. I'm almost guaranteed to get tickets to my third-favorite musical, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA because they sell same-day student rush tickets for $30. Plus, if I play my cards right, I could see tons of other Broadway shows by playing 3 or even 4 lottos a day! Or just make best-friends with a little something called TKTS, which is a tourist-treat, who sell Broadway show tickets for 1/2 price.
Plus I'm going to devote a day or two for exploring Central Park, the Financial District, catch a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty, Bryant Park, Madison Square Garden, the Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building... too much! I'll become the master of the subway system. My hostel is on 103rd & Amsterdam in the Upper West Side, right next to Gretchen at Columbia University. It's gonna be perfect!
But the point is: I'M GOING TO NYC! I've never been so ecstatic in my life! Spring Break can't come soon enough!
posted by EugLoven at 3/01/2006 11:22:00 AM
2 Comments:
EUGENE!
I'm so jealous, but then again I'll be going to NYC in June! so you gotta let me know where the cheap good eats are and great places to go and of course let me know what show i should see if i can only afford and attend one broadway show. how much were your tickets and where did you book them? You have to totally blog your expereience there!
OF COURSE! I'm going to share every freakin' last detail. Are you kidding? I'm a member of a bajillion Broadway-related message boards and blogs and I like to believe I have a good following/readership (esp. LiveJournal and BWW.com), and they're gonna be expecting every last miniscule moment of my adventure to be documented.
As for tickets, I owe everything to my NYC friends and my know-how of the Broadway ticket-buying world. There's a little something called "Rush" and "Lotto" - and the willingness to recognize that Standing Room and Partial View seating is actually VERY GOOD.
I got a great front-row seat (partial view, reportedly) for Wicked for $65 but it's seat BB6 which is reportedly the best seat in the house for someone like me (having seen the show 2 times before). Sweeney Todd rear mezz was $35 but Eugene O'Neill Theatre is a small theater so every seat is a good seat.
If was already wasn't making sense to you with my Bway lingo, then your mind will blow when it comes to my pointers on getting tickets to other shows. Essentially, you must master the skills of student rush and lotto. I'm almost guaranteed tickets to "Piazza" and "Hairspray" and depending on how I play my cards, I can play 3 lottos at a time to almost guarantee tickets for other shows. Most of the information on how to play student rush or lotto is at www.talkinbroadway.com
Tourists that don't know how to do all this crazy stuff usually use TKTS which is in Times Square and sells half-price Broadway and Off-Broadway tickets to same-day performances. But lines are long.
You just need to be friends with TicketMaster or have people who know what they're doing. I'm hoping to see at least 5 shows for under $200.
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