Leicester Square tickets line
NYNatehc
London (exact location, price range of tickets sold, types of shows recently
sold, etc.)? Thanks!
Brian McKinney
On the east side of Leicester Square in the TKTS* Booth (formerly known as
the Half Price Ticket Booth), tickets are put on sale daily for shows which
aren't selling well in advance. In addition, tickets are available to
popular shows for that day, either at a 25% discount or at full-price. A
booking fee is charged for full price tickets, so go to the theatre box
office - almost all West End theatres are within ten minutes' walking
distance of the booth - where no fee is charged.
To get to the booth from Charing Cross Road and the Leicester Square Tube,
no easy task for first-time visitors, take Cranbourn - the street directly
left of The Hippodrome - and, avoiding the opportunistic ticket sellers who
declare themselves to be representatives of the "Half Price Ticket Booth"
(or the TKTS Booth) - make your way to the square. The booth is a free
standing building with a clock tower, in front of the Odeon West End
Cinemas.
The booth is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and from noon to
3.00 p.m. Sunday. Payment is by cash, VISA, Mastercard or British Switch
debit card, with a £2.50 fee per ticket. (Traveler's checks and checks are
not accepted.) No phone orders are taken and your ticket choice is limited
to the tickets at the top of the stack when you get to the window, which are
not necessarily the best tickets available.
Before the booth opens, names of available shows are posted. If you have a
number of days in London and open time in your schedule, you may want to
stroll by the booth and see which shows are likely to be posted the day you
want tickets. Be warned, however, that availability changes from day to day
and hour by hour as allocations sell out and new choices are added. A show
at the TKTS Booth for a weekday or mid-week matinee may not be on offer at
the weekend.
Matinee (one window) and evening performance (up to four windows) tickets
are sold at different windows. Be sure you are in the right queue.
Here are the shows available yesterday (from www.londontheatre.uk).
Remember, that being listed one day doesn't mean that a show will be listed
the next day, and that you have no say about which tickets you wind up with
when you are doing the half-price deal:
Matinee & Evening Shows listed at The Booth on WEDNESDAY 21st Nov 01 at
11.05am
Matinee
Art
Blue/Orange
Dangerous Corner
An Inspector Calls
Jitney
King and I
Noises Off
Over the Moon
Play What I Wrote
Evening
Art
Blood Brothers
Blue/Orange
Buddy
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Cats (25% off)
Caught in the Net
Chicago
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
Dangerous Corner
Fame
Graduate
Homecoming
An Inspector Calls
King and I
Kiss Me Kate
Noises Off
Over the Moon
Phantom of the Opera (25% off)
Star Quality
Starlight Express
Stones in his Pockets
Umoja
Woman in Black
Vagina Monologues
Brian McKinney
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London theatre information: www.goodshow.com
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Brenda W. Clough
Brian McKinney wrote:
Owtch, I see that ANTARCTICA is no longer listed. I assume it has closed. (I
saw it in mid-October, and the theater had less than a hundred people in the
seats.)
Brenda
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Brian McKinney
has closed. (I saw it in mid-October, and the theater had less than a
hundred people in the seats.)
It closed Nov 3 after lukewarm reviews. "Return to the Forbidden Planet"
starts Dec. 11 at the Savoy.
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Brian McKinney
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London theatre information: www.goodshow.com
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Stephen Farrow
>
> Brenda wrote: Owtch, I see that ANTARCTICA is no longer listed. I assume it
> has closed. (I saw it in mid-October, and the theater had less than a
> hundred people in the seats.)
>
> It closed Nov 3 after lukewarm reviews. "Return to the Forbidden Planet"
> starts Dec. 11 at the Savoy.
Ugh. I saw the original Toronto production (it premiered here a few
years back under the title "Inexpressible Island" - "Inexpressible
Boredom" would have been closer to the truth. It's an appalling play. I
believe London was lucky (?!) in that the revised and retitled version
staged there was cut to two acts and was an hour or so shorter than the
version that played here (three acts, three-and-a-half hours).
I've learned to avoid shows produced by the company that mounted
"Inexpressible Island" here (Necessary Angel) - I've yet to see anything
of theirs that didn't stink.
Stephen
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knowledge of Latin..."
Brenda W. Clough
Stephen Farrow wrote:
> Brian McKinney wrote:
> >
> > Brenda wrote: Owtch, I see that ANTARCTICA is no longer listed. I assume it
> > has closed. (I saw it in mid-October, and the theater had less than a
> > hundred people in the seats.)
> >
> > It closed Nov 3 after lukewarm reviews. "Return to the Forbidden Planet"
> > starts Dec. 11 at the Savoy.
>
> Ugh. I saw the original Toronto production (it premiered here a few
> years back under the title "Inexpressible Island" - "Inexpressible
> Boredom" would have been closer to the truth. It's an appalling play. I
> believe London was lucky (?!) in that the revised and retitled version
> staged there was cut to two acts and was an hour or so shorter than the
> version that played here (three acts, three-and-a-half hours).
IMO there was still plenty of fat on the frame. Still no resolution, though. And
this was irritating because I saw precisely how to do it.
sarah thiboutot
McKinney" <bmck...@dvc.edu> wrote:
> Remember, that being listed one day doesn't mean that a show will be listed
> the next day, and that you have no say about which tickets you wind up with
> when you are doing the half-price deal:
do you mean you don't get to choose which SHOW you get tickets to??? or
just that you can't choose your seating?
Brenda W. Clough
sarah thiboutot wrote:
He means you don't get to choose your seat. You do get to choose the show. Then
the clerk picks up the wad of tickets for that show, and peels the requisite
number off the top.
Oliver Broadway
wrote:
> He means you don't get to choose your seat. You do get to choose the
> show. Then the clerk picks up the wad of tickets for that show, and
> peels the requisite number off the top.
Does that mean you might end up in seats that aren't together?
Ollie
sarah thiboutot
<clo...@erols.com> wrote:
> sarah thiboutot wrote:
>
> > In article <pP9L7.13263$W6.38...@news1.oakland1.sfba.home.com>, "Brian
> > McKinney" <bmck...@dvc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Remember, that being listed one day doesn't mean that a show will be
listed
> > > the next day, and that you have no say about which tickets you wind
up with
> > > when you are doing the half-price deal:
> >
> > do you mean you don't get to choose which SHOW you get tickets to??? or
> > just that you can't choose your seating?
>
> He means you don't get to choose your seat. You do get to choose the
show. Then
> the clerk picks up the wad of tickets for that show, and peels the requisite
> number off the top.
You know, that was what I was assuming. But the way it was phrased it
sounded like he meant the show. Of course you don't get to choose your
seat...you can't at the TKTS in NY either. they just aren't set up for
that, and it would take too much time.
Stephen Farrow
Yes, it's possible, though it only happened to me twice in about seven
years of using the booth on a more-or-less weekly basis.
Stephen
Brenda W. Clough
sarah thiboutot wrote:
If patrons didn't get to choose the -show-, then I could imagine it might get kind
of cut-throat among theaters, to be the wad of tickets that is peeled off of
first.