Sweeney Todd @ The Adelphi - Day Seats announced!

[ClapYo'Hands]

The production will be doing Day Seats from 10am at the Box Office, which will be �25 in the front row:

Full website live now:

http://sweeneytoddwestend.com/

[jaqs]

At the moment theres only 11 seats in the front row, hope that changes, as those Ballettes can get up early.

[Princeton Returns]

Anyone know how this is selling, looked at tickets on See and their seemed to still be plenty of good availability which surprised me. thought it would sell out quicker

[Phantom of London]

Perhaps the producers were over ambitious about their pricing tariff for Sweeney Todd.

Day Seats can be a euphemism for seats in the front row or anywhere else in the house, depending on how the performances are selling.

For example I bet you could bag a decent ticket for �25 or less for Rock of Ages or Wizard of OZ, why pay �40 at TKT's, I imagine you will get a decent seat for Ghost as well and I even push the boat out or should I say Billy Elliot, I have never had a problem getting a day ticket for �19.50.

Someone on here said that before Christmas that the Orchestra for Matilda wasn't sold out, but I am not going to push my luck and say this one would be easy to bag.

Has anyone tried for Wicked lately?

Keep this thread under your hat, as day seats are really aimed at the theatre devotee as a reward for their loyalty and not people who go once in a blue moon!

[Bluejay2]

Hello everybody, sorry to bother you but I have a couple of questions, the day seats are available for every performance? because I was thinking about going to a preview on a Saturday. and also, do you think that there is a good chance to get the ticket? it may seem a silly question, but since my friend and I will be traveling from Italy just to see this show we really don't want to take the risk to don't find any seats considering that we wouldn't have a chance to try a different day. thank you :)

[turquoisefish]

I don't know any specifics about day seats for Sweeney Todd but if you are travelling from Italy just to see the show then book seats!
You could get there and there be 11 in front of you for day seats and the performance be a total sell out. Not worth the risk

[Bluejay2]

thank you very much for the suggestion :)

[SoonerOrLater]

Thanks for the info, day seats probably the only way I'll get to see this buuuut the thought of fighting with/being sat in a row of crazy 'Ballettes' doesn't fill me with glee. Perhaps if we later find out the day seats are scattered around the place I'd be more optimistic.

SoonerOrLater...having vivid flashbacks to scary fans at Michael Ball's concert last year *shudder* should have known better....

[nasty_khakis]

Any updates on availibility? I'm going to be in London the second week of April and really would like to see this as cheaply as possible. If it's "get there at 8am and you'll be fine" I'd rather buy a day seat, but if it crazier than that I'll just book a seat now.

[jaqs]

See just have a 48hr discount offer for it, top price for 49.500, second price 39.50, not cheap but a good reduction.

Sorry just saw you said april and the offer is for mon-fri in march, still if they are discounting now more offers may follow on.

http://www2.seetickets.com/seemoretheatre/event_calendar.asp?e%7Cshowname=SWEENEY+TODD+OFFER&e|venaudit=Adelphi%20Theatre%2C%20The%20Strand&resultsperpage=1000&dateto=31/03/2012&firstdate=12/03/2012&lastdate=30/03/2012&filler1=id1smt&filler2=&filler3=

[Phantom of London]

Great you posted this discount now, where I just spent �67:50 for 1 ticket, oh well, I do not splurge on full price tickets often, Matilda was the last time.

Well looking forward to this, going on Monday week for the second performance.

Saw them loading the set in today, just a lot of cables and the foyer of the Adelphi was packed with boxes on wheels.

[Princeton Returns]

The stunt casting has been announced. Jason Manford the comedian is playing Pirelli in the summer when the main guy is on holiday

[nasty_khakis]

Any updates about the queue for tickets and what time people are getting there? I know it's only been up and running for a week but any information about this or discount code/sites would be helpful. Thanks!

[Kicks8567]

I lined up on Monday morning at around 740AM (box office opened at 10AM) and I was first in line, with the next people not showing up until about 820AM.

[mallardo]

I showed up at 9.50 and got the last day seat. And this was on a Friday.

[nasty_khakis]

Thanks everyone for your help. I'm hopefully checking into my hostel around 8/8:30 next Monday morning and should be able to get to the Adelphi by 9 or 9:15. If I fail I can arrive earlier the next day. Just to be clear I don't need a student id or anything, right? It is the same as a general rush?

[FrontRowDress]

I got there at 8.50 this morning and was second in line. By 10am there were only 9 of us there. The front row day seats are on the edges, but they are also offering back row of the stalls as day seats, don't know if that's a change to normal.

[FrontRowDress]

I got there at 8.50 this morning and was second in line. By 10am there were only 9 of us there. The front row day seats are on the edges, but they are also offering back row of the stalls as day seats, don't know if that's a change to normal.

[FrontRowDress]

Here's my ramblings on the view from the day seats last night
Sweeney Todd

[The Scorpion]

What's the view like from the day seats? At the Dress Circle signing, Ball told me that I'd miss a few things at the back by sitting there - is this right? Deliberating whether to get day tickets or book somewhere else in the auditorium...

[FrontRowDress]

From the front row you do miss some of the final scene which takes place on the floor of the stage, some day seats are also back row of the stalls, so you wouldn't miss this, but would miss the action on the gantries as the dress circle overhang cuts this off. For �25 though, the day seats are a total bargain.

[turquoisefish]

It seems they offer front row and rear row(s?) for �25 for day seats. From the front row you can't see the floor of the stage so do miss out a bit on the end scene. I was A30 which also has the handrail for the stairs and a table in the way but you are very close to the performers. Rear stalls would miss the gantry, there are a lot of people up there singing and in the background but not much action happens up there. I would go for row A again.

[The Scorpion]

Thanks for the info!

[Skywalker3]

Sorry to bump up this old threat, but I'm going to london 17-20 juli and I want to see Sweeney Todd.

So how are the Day seats lines now a days?

[Bob30]

Skywalker3 - I day Ticketed on the 16th April and i got there at 10 and managed to get the end of the front row with about 12 people in front of me (two show day so double amount of tickets) get there by 9:30 and id imagine youd be the front of ,or very near,the queue.

You can buy the middle of the front row for �33 or the sides for �25 or the back of the stalls for �25 although the set is high and the overhang will block some action.

I had the seat on the end of the front row to the left and it wasn't a great view but worth �25, although i did move back a row within the first ten minutes to the middle of row B :)

[theeatah]

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