Free Theatre/Concert Tickets Discussion Thread

[claire]

That's the plan.

[cinefila1]

Your persistence pa*d off, well done!

I completely forgot about the etiquette for the 'p' word. Thanks for editing my post!

I got some tickets for Wednesday kindly donated by Beate. I think I'll try my luck tomorrow. How early where they giving away the tickets today?

[a_person]

I got some tickets for Wednesday kindly donated by Beate. I think I'll try my luck tomorrow. How early where they giving away the tickets today?

5:45pm I think.

[funthing29]

My mum said she was given her tickets about 5.45pm and had 4th row from the stage in the stalls. She said she enjoyed the show and also ran into pxc and met canadian_turtle.

[superhero]

Maybe they thought no one was going to go with all the torrential rain late afternoon

[funthing29]

My mum said there were empty seats...

[prettyxcool]

Rock of Ages rock! Got fab seats in the stall, 5 rows in front of stage, funthing's mum and friend were in front of us and canadian_turtle were two rows in front more to the centre, there were plenty of seats empty, two in front next to funthing's mum, four in my row, and about 6 in the row behind. So such a shame! I got to box office at 5.30pm and they said the lady with the Showfilmfirst tickets will be down with them in 15 minutes but there is a lady over there waiting, and I looked over and it was funthing's mum. I went and sat with her, but when more people turned up decided to form the start of queue, didn't want to miss out after getting there so early! Then canadian_turtle turned up. True to box office's lady's words, the lady with tickets came down with a stack of tickets and I let funthing's mum get her tickets first being the first there.

Story was so corny it was hilarious and wicked! Songs and music were brilliant, wanted to dance and sing along, and finally, we could towards the end. We were given lighter torches to shine during the slow songs. Lots of tongue in cheek, camp and saucy humour. Actors/singers were brilliant too. Loved Justin Lee Curtis. Afterwards we met the cast backstage, they were all so nice, posing for photos, signing autographs, Justin, Drew (Oliver from Wicked), Sherrie, Franz. Sorry only know Justin's real name! Lovely evening. Fancy going again! And my new boss and his wife also loved it. So lots of Brownie points for me!

[canadian_turtle]

Rock of Ages was amazing! Never mind that my ears are ringing and I am still picking out glitter from my hair... Had such an amazing time. Loves the show and the songs, it was like a rock concert at times. I had an amazing seat (third row from the front smackdown in the middle along the isle) so I was close enough to Oliver Tompsett to be swooning most of the show

Lovely to see pxc + OH again and meet funthing's mum.

Also, no problem with tickets at all. They are not cancelled! As I mentioned before they've just been selling more than they assumed but there were still plenty left for SFF. We had to wait until 6pm (even you mum funthing ) as that's when they stop selling, and they had a stack with remaining tickets at the box office which they handed out first come first serve. They were even nice enough to look through the tickets when we requested seats in specific areas.

Pretty tired now so I'll try to write down more tomorrow.

[superhero]

I am guessing much like ROTPOTA, they cancelled one code but not the other one. Did some people not get cancellation emails?

[canadian_turtle]

Afterwards we met the cast backstage, they were all so nice, posing for photos, signing autographs, Justin, Drew (Oliver from Wicked), Sherrie, Franz.

Ack, I wanted to do this but couldn't find the stagedoor! Also don't really fancy going by myself... Can I persuade you to go again on Friday?