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Does anyone have any advice about what would be the best seats to get? I’m so tempted to pick up some tickets the moment they’re available but those prices are steep. But still, it’s sort of a once in a life-time experience and it’d be great to see Dan live. I live only about 20 minutes from the city so I know I could get there, no problem.

Seating advice, anyone?

Since I’m Dutch and a student I will never be able to see the play with Dan. Those prices are very steep. But what I’m wondering is. Where can you find the play to read it? Are there websites or do they just have them in the american libraries? Or has it been published as a novel?

Oh my god, sooooo expensive- $301.50? I saw this in London- paid £37 (about $75) for the on stage seats (which I assume are premium seats). View was excellent, the actors didn’t always have their backs to us and it was definitely an original view.

Maybe not for $250 though…

Petra, It is by Peter Shaffer, Penguin Books here in the US is the publishing company. Isbn #9780140260700.

Just so people know, the premium seats are NOT onstage seats. They would have clearly specified if the seats were onstage. Premium seats are in the center or sides of the orchestra, usually dead center, and they can vary from row A-J. They’re basically there for the tourists who are crazy enough to pay those types of prices. With a show this popular it can sell out extremely fast (like Wicked, Jersey Boys, etc.) and these seats are so expensive so they don’t get sold right away and so people who are really dying to see the show can still see it without having to resort to the scalpers.

Honestly, I’m doubting that they’ll have student rush for this, only because it might sell out! Otherwise you’d have to start to stand in the rush line at like 4am…something not to uncommon from Spring Awakening’s rush. They’ll most likely have standing room though, which is when the show sells out and you stand in the back of the orchestra.

If you were British you get the tickets cheap (weak dollar against the pound) But I think you have to really insane to fork out that kind of cash. I know its top quality theartre, but seriously, that much!? I wonder if Melissa will be trying to get her hands on tickets :p

The tickets go on sale on my birthday so I’m making someone, anyone buy me the tickets, I’m a poor student as well but this is truly once in a live time and I’ve read and adored the play. Anyone know what the deal with premium seats is?

And also, the preview on September 5th, is that free, will Dan be there?

The irony in all this is that I leave for university in England (partly inspired by HP) like Sept. 15 so will have to wait till December to see it!

This is Broadway. They don’t do student rush or on stage seating. No such thing. For that you go to off or off-off broadway shows. Here is the seating chart. It is on the website linked above. http://www.telecharge.com/seatingChart.aspx?showTitle=Equus&seatingChart=Broadhurst1108.gif” alt=”Broadhurst Theatre Seating Chart”

This is Broadway. They don’t do student rush or on stage seating. No such thing. For that you go to off or off-off broadway shows. Here is the seating chart. It is on the website linked above. http://www.telecharge.com/seatingChart.aspx?showTitle=Equus&seatingChart=Broadhurst1108.gif” alt=”Broadhurst Theatre Seating Chart”

X-PEN-SIVE!!!!! Maybe too expensive for me… I’m already saving up for a life-long-dream trip to Ireland and other parts of Europe for my grandmother and I and thats quite a lump of cash to gather… now tickets up to 300+ dollars!? wow, I don’t know how good are my chances to see Equus in Broadway.. :o((

Wow, those prices are ridiculous! I might be in the US over that time (live in South Africa) but in rands, one of the normal Equus tickets would cost me over R1000! It’ll have to be the $65 one. I don’t know how they expect to make the play accessible to a wide audience by charging so much (but this applies to Broadway shows in general) ... theatre should be for the people!

actually, many broadway shows offer student rush tickets or standing room only…there’s a good chance equus might as cat on a hot tin roof is offering them (same theatre)

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@Nylorac, thanks for the isbn, maybe I will order it, I hope it won’t be to expensive. And has to be imported. the libraries don;t have it in their collection.

Yeah, I know about the standing room only discount tickets (never happened to the shows I wanted to see when I visited), but never heard about student rush (maybe because I’m not a student). So sorry about the wrong info on that. It’s still like the lottery and I guess you just have to find out if the show is a sellout on the day you want to see the play. I gave up after the second show I wanted to see was a bust, I ended watching a very good off-broadway play instead.

I purchased tickets this morning with a regular AmEx card.

The Gold card gets slightly better seats, but anyone with an American Express card can purchase tickets right now.

Yeah, um, I’m definitely going to see if they do student rush-those are usually about $20-$40, with good seats. There’s also the TKTS booths and all. Not paying full price, can’t do that! (I love living in New York…)

About the box seats: what a lot of people (ie tourists) don’t realize is that, while you may pay tons of money for the private box seating, they actually usually aren’t very good seats. They’re on the sides of the theater, and you’re much better off NOT in a box seat, because you’re so far to the side.

I got my tickets, I got my tickets!

If you people think that this is going to have Student rush or SRO, or obstructed view tickets available later on you’re deluding yourself, and I doubt this will ever make the TKTS day of offering.

This is going to sell out.

So which seats are the best? Orchestra or Mezzanine or Premium? AHH, no one seems to know =/

Just managed to get my one ticket for Sept 20 matinee at the $116 ($128 by the time you add all the surcharges) in the orchestra about mid-way back, but I’m already seeing some scalpers in play with tickets on Stubhub.com going for $550 apiece for a Saturday 8 p.m. show! Killer. The lowest I saw on that site was $238. None of these prices was for “premium seats” either.