AVENUE Q seating question

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Hello all! I'm looking into buying tickets for AVENUE Q, and I was wondering if this show is better experienced close up or far back. Thanks for the help!

[Jane2]

There really aren't any bad seats in that house, but since there's a little bit of action above, I wouldn't sit in the very back few rows of the orchestra. Great show!

[everythingtaboo]

Anything from Row M forward is great, you won't miss anything that way. You could also sit upstairs, the mezzanine is great there. The show really holds up, they have a great cast in there now.

[dramamama611]

The theater is so small, it really doesn't matter -- but there is no advanaagae to being close.

AVOID close and all the way to either side, however.

[Jane2]

"The theater is so small, "

Just saying that the theater is one seat short of a Broadway house. I guess I don't see it as so small because I've been in really tiny theaters!

[dramamama611]

Sure it's one size smaller than the MINIMUM requirement for a b'way theater. Aren't most b'way theaters 2 and even three times that amount? And of course, touring houses are even bigger (for the most part).

It's pretty small in the scheme of things.

[Jane2]

Dramamamma, I was only trying to say it really isn't such a small off broadway theater.

If you say it's small, then it's small.

[dramamama611]

Jane -- and truly, I wasn't looking to argue, I was just explaining my thought. I wasn't really comparing it to other off b'way theaters, just what I suspect most people think of as a theater -- which has a tendency to be much bigger. No harm, no foul (intended).

[HoldThatThought]

Okay, now I'm curious - how many seats does it have? I've never been to a B'way or off B'way theater.

[dramamama611]

I alwasy forget the distinction: so it's either 499 seats, or 500 seats.

To get an idea of house sizes, just look at the total number of seats on the Grosses listing (but remember to divide by number of performances.)

You can also google most major theaters to get their house size -- for example The Opera House or the Colonial in Boston.

[HoldThatThought]

Thanks dramamama, got it! I never think to check Grosses listing.

[uncageg]

The theater technically seats 499, however it actually seats a few less. Row P is the only row where you will miss the things happening high up onstage.

[Jane2]

Dramamamma, that house is the very largest an off broadway house can be before it qualifies as a broadway house. Theaters 2 and 4 are what I call medium sized off broadway, at approx. 350 each, and then there's house 5 with 199. So that's why I was saying stage 3 really isn't "small."

It was the way we interpreted small, so that's why we differed. No prob!