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Post by shady23 on Feb 28, 2019 22:18:43 GMT
There were still plenty of £35 seats for January dates when I looked around an hour ago.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 28, 2019 22:33:50 GMT
£35 for really crap seats. No thanks.
The greed is real.
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 28, 2019 22:47:29 GMT
It was one hell of a day for booking! An absolute nightmare from my end. Queued for 90 minutes (after the email came half an hour late....) and then got thrown out. 2 and a half hours later (a total of 4 HOURS) I got in.
Thankfully picked up the £35 grand circle seats I wanted for the Thursday night I fancied, so all good. But that was unnecessarily stressful. The Delfont Mackintosh website needs a better server.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 28, 2019 22:57:39 GMT
I think their website is one of the best!
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Post by danb on Feb 28, 2019 22:58:51 GMT
I think their website is one of the best! I would agree. Once you were in you could move around all of the dates searching for what you needed. |
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Post by Being Alive on Feb 28, 2019 22:59:16 GMT
I think their website is one of the best! So do I normally! But after the LEs Mis concert and this, it's had two on the trot that have been really difficult! |
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 28, 2019 23:03:53 GMT
I think anything that is incredibly popular will always be hard going to book. It’s the same everywhere- Donmar, NT, Ticketmaster..
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2019 23:11:35 GMT
I found that Hamilton's system ran way smoothly. Their interface/server can handle more traffic it seems.
Even when buying for Matilda at my local, ATG used Queue-It which was fine and had no dramas, despite initially being 1,547th in the queue. (it moved quickly, and I got in within 20 mins)
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Post by musicalmarge on Mar 1, 2019 1:11:36 GMT
£35 for really crap seats. No thanks. The greed is real. Have you seen broadway prices? We are very very lucky! |
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Post by Daca on Mar 1, 2019 10:48:29 GMT
I got my booking link at 11.59 and accessed the booking page instantly. Was hoping to book tickets as a post Christmas treat. However booking only appeared to be until 21st December. I have just noticed it now seems to be until mid January, but the Saturday I selected is now sold out. Does anyone know why these tickets were unavailable to begin with?
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Post by viserys on Mar 1, 2019 11:24:53 GMT
I got my booking link at 11.59 and accessed the booking page instantly. Was hoping to book tickets as a post Christmas treat. However booking only appeared to be until 21st December. I have just noticed it now seems to be until mid January, but the Saturday I selected is now sold out. Does anyone know why these tickets were unavailable to begin with? Initially they meant to sell to 21 Dec only. I guess the huge demand took them by surprise and so they extended to mid January later to give everyone stuck in the queue for hours a chance to actually book tickets. |
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Post by jaqs on Mar 1, 2019 11:34:37 GMT
I gave up, as I'm local I can hope for a single seat to be favourably dynamically priced, short notice, nearer the time.
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Post by ali973 on Mar 1, 2019 12:56:52 GMT
Are we done here? Sorry, I had a major interview and missed all the madness. How did we do? Is it sold out?
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Post by foxa on Mar 1, 2019 14:36:04 GMT
Wowzer. I picked up two tickets approximately where I wanted on my first choice date 40 minutes into the booking yesterday. Just had a little look just now and it is very picked over. A lot dates showing no online booking or very limited.
This demonstrates how much I don't have my finger on the pulse of things. I thought that this might be popular (thus why I signed up for the priority booking) but nowhere near this fast-selling. I under-estimated the hardcore musical fans' enthusiasm as well as its teen-appeal.
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Post by FrontroverPaul on Mar 1, 2019 14:51:16 GMT
The only performance for which I could find a decent stalls seat was Thurs 2 January 7.30pm when I'm already booked to see Les Mis in Cardiff. Amazed how quickly this has sold.
Anyone looking for a single seat check out that date asap !
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Post by alece10 on Mar 1, 2019 15:24:07 GMT
There were about a half a dozen stalls and dress circle rows not on sale yesterday during DMT+ priority. I wonder if they were put on later, or if they are still held back for April. I think they must have held some back or when it goes on general sale in April it wouldn't look good if there was literally nothing at all for a couple of months. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2019 16:06:46 GMT
There were about a half a dozen stalls and dress circle rows not on sale yesterday during DMT+ priority. I wonder if they were put on later, or if they are still held back for April. Guess there maybe a day-seat/lottery allocation..? |
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Post by Mark on Mar 1, 2019 16:31:46 GMT
Noel Coward Theatre has had dayseats for every show as far back as I can remember, often the front row. DEH do a digital lottery on Broadway so would imagine the same here. The last few shows have all done it through TodayTix here.
I think it will have a very good run. Interesting how well it's sold during previews already compared to Waitress/Come From Away. I'm surprised Waitress didn't do the same and go down the "smaller" venue route.
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Post by FrontroverPaul on Mar 1, 2019 18:33:57 GMT
I just scrolled through the dates again and managed to book a central row B stalls seat on 28 November. Absolutely delighted. Glad now I was away in Wales yesterday seeing other shows.
There were two seats together and I didn't think the booking system would let me buy only one but no problem.
I do like the way the DMT booking website is set up. Takes seconds to look through performances and check different seating areas.
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Post by centaured on Mar 2, 2019 18:10:43 GMT
I just rang and spoke to them and they still aren’t sure if row B will be first or second row so there may well be more seats come up once they know.
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Post by theatreian on Mar 5, 2019 15:22:48 GMT
Here are 3 clips of songs from Ben Platt's new album "Sing to me Instead" out at the end of March.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 16:33:05 GMT
'Ease My Mind' is the one that caused all the fuss because he's in love with like, A MAN in it! Apparently, little puppy dog Benny publicly came out as gay recently. Who'd have thunk it? Ben and Snap! |
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 5, 2019 17:05:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 17:07:30 GMT
To be fair to little Benny, I don't think he really needed to talk about it for us to know. Bless his little puppy dog heart. |
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Post by 49thand8th on Mar 5, 2019 17:11:16 GMT
That's dismissive of you.
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