re: Best time for CHICAGO rush?

[suziehita]

How early do you need to get to the theater on a Saturday morning for rush tickets?

[EponineAmneris]

You could get there right at 10AM when the box office opens and have no one in front of you. You won't have a problem getting tickets of any kind.

[TonyVincent]

Where are they? It's a "whatever's left," I believe? What kind of luck have people had?

Certainly on my to-do list if the seats are halfway decent.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Front row. Sides and center.

You can get there an hour before curtain and land one of the far side front row seats, which offer a full view, or get there first thing in the morning and get a center seat.

[george95]

If you can manage to cough up 60 bucks, what I do almost every time I see CHICAGO is I go to the ticket window about 2 hours or so before showtime with a discount print-out from playbill.com or broadwaybox.com, and I always get 3rd or 4th row center orchestra. That's been the last 5 or 6 times I've seen it.

[TonyVincent]

Thanks for the info WBAF.

Hmm... ~$27 in the front row or $60 in the third row... decisions, decisions.

[kdek004]

Does Chicago always do a rush or is it only when it's sold out? Thinking about rushing tonight around 5:30.

[mikem]

How high is the stage? Is the first row too neck-craning?

[jordangirl]

Have they changed it? Last spring and summer it was the extreme sides only. And it was hit or miss ~ my friends and I rushed on a Sunday and were glad we had agreed to meet early as there was a line and they sold out of it. Then I've heard of during the week people getting there at 10 and there being no line.

I also thought I had read/heard somewhere that they only have them until a certain time and then they go to tkts.

[Winston3]

I am trying to figure out this as well. I am craving a trip to Chicago and I would like to do the rush. I do remember over the summer trying the rush I would say around two hours prior to showtime and the box office worker told me that they were out of rush tickets. Now, that got me to wonder if it was just because it was summer and the show is a popular tourist show? Or if there is a set time for the rush. I mean, the tourists are slowly starting to die down. So I wonder if I would have a better chance of getting a rush ticket 2 hours or so prior to the show.

[Glory]

When I went last month, I got there like 3 hours after the box office opened and I was front row all the way to the right. The stage isn't high at all, so I enjoyed my night at that show :) Hope that helps!

[RentBoy86]

Just wait till February, then all the tourists will be gone, and you'll be good to go.

[wicked_beast4]

Anyone know how the rush has been since Melora joined the cast? What time should I get there if I tried for any show this weekend?

Any help at all is appreciated!!!

[frogs_fan85]

I attempted to rush Chicago tonight. Got to the box office around 5:20 and was told the best they could do was rear mezzanine for $47.50, whatever seats they had set aside for rush had been sold. I ended up at Speed-the-Plow.

[BobbyBubby]

Those side rush seats are too close for my comfort. The house manager moved us up to the balcony without a problem.

[wicked_beast4]

Ba-dump-bump.

How early would I have to go to rush tomorrow's matinee? Thanks!

[ljay889]

^ There's no celebrity in the show right now, so I think you should be fine anytime. But try to get there at least an hour early.

[CSonBroadway]

I've had problems with the Chicago rush...all the times I've went they told me didn't have a rush and they didn't understand why people ask them.

[ljay889]

They have had rush for YEARS. I do not know why they are saying that.

[CSonBroadway]

The two times I've gone, they said they didn't have a rush.

[iflip4musicals]

Anyone been recently? Any thoughts on a Monday night?

[iflip4musicals]

bump


or should I take no replies as a good sign that tickets aren't terribly hard to come by?

[NYCtheater]

Getting there an hour before the box office opens should be a good time. Enjoy the show!

[iflip4musicals]

thanks!

[CSonBroadway]

Bumping this. I might do it Thursday? Should I just go right when the box office opens?

[ljay889]

Has anyone tried it recently?