Thursday, March 14, 2013
Lottery offers winners great seats for 'Mormon'
TribLIVE: Good things can come to those who wait.
Especially when they are front-row seats for the eagerly anticipated musical “The Book of Mormon.”
A limited number of $25 tickets will be available by lottery for each performance when the national tour plays March 26 through April 7 at the Benedum Center, Downtown, as a presentation of PNC Broadway Across America – Pittsburgh. The seats, located in the first two rows, would otherwise sell for $150 each.
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I think the lottery system is a great way to allow everyone to see shows. I feel like this could lead to some scalping like in events like the superbowl etc. (Certainly not as severe of a mark up but still could become an issue). It seems a little strange for the drawing to occur moments before the show begins. It raises several questions for me the first being do you enter for a particular timeslot/day and then show up then or are you in a general pool and must show up to every drawing? They noted this was a great option for students but can everyone enter?
This is definitely something I may try to do, if my schedule gives me time. I'd love to see the show again, and for 25 dollars it's worth it. In response to Alex's comment, the drawing doesn't occur moments before the show, it occurs two hours before, and usually ticket lotteries like this require you to enter your name in person each day. I'm glad to see that something like this is happening for a big name musical in Pittsburgh, however it does raise some questions as to whether or not these front row seats were allotted for this purpose all along, or if ticket sales were going rather poorly and this is a sales ploy to make sure the front row is filled each night.
I love the lottery process, but my only problem with it is that you could stand there for two hours and end up with nothing. I know that we as audience members should be grateful that they are even giving people this opportunity for lower priced tickets, but I much prefer the Student or General Rush process. You show up as early as you please, and if you are towards the front or the middle of the line, you are more likely to definitely have a seat. With lottery, the first person who came is not guaranteed a ticket. I entered the lottery for Newsies and the LAST girl who came at 5:59:56 p.m. was the first person who was chosen. I am extremely thankful that shows will do this, but while in school at CMU, its really not plausible to go every day to enter until you win.
Like how everyone mentioned above, I love the lottery process. Since its first practice in Broadway until now, I believe it has been an awesome method to allure more audiences and to advertise its production and theatrical world itself. During Spring break, I also tried the lottery process in Broadway and I saw bunch of students as well as tourists from other nations like Asia. I immediately thought this process is definitely helping to improve the theatrical world because by giving an opportunities to them to see an amazing productions, they will be attracted to other productions too. Looking at other people's comments, I understand that it is hard to go everyday to enter the lottery and for CMU students, they can not go to Benedum Theater in downtown every single day. However, I still believe that this is great opportunity and I would definitely want to try to go to see one of the most famed productions like The Book of Mormon.
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