I'd introduced the soundtrack to my boyfriend last year, and we fell in love with it. We planned for two tickets to the Miami show to be our main three-year anniversary present. I've been waiting since late 2007 for March 30, 2008 to purchase the tickets. At 12 PM, I went nuts. The tickets were officially on sale.
Unfortunately, many tickets (for various events) are available for sale most conveniently through Ticketmaster.com. There are a few things that bother me about this web site.
Sometime late last year, I bought tickets to an Elton John concert on campus. I'd been offered the most amazing seats in the arena, and after checking a few other Internet windows, to make sure those were the best seats I could possibly find, I bought the tickets. When I printed out the receipt, I found that I'd actually just bought tickets for a seating area at the far side of the arena where I wouldn't be able to see Sir John's face. I called Ticketmaster, and they gave me closer seats, but they were not the original seats that I'd intended on paying for.
Today, I had orchestra circle seats in the opera house. I opened a few more windows, just to make sure those seats were the best, and when I got to the receipt, I saw that Ticketmaster had ended up selling me tickets for Tier Two.
Fortunately, this is not a problem. The tickets cost the same amount of money in these two seating areas, and I believe that Tier Two may offer a better view, since it is at a higher altitude. Perhaps the acoustics will be better, as well. Perhaps it does not matter.
But I implore you to keep one window open when buying tickets. Find the priority seating areas when you use Ticketmaster, and when you have one, grab it. Using Ticketmaster to find seats is like gambling. And you can definitely lose everything.
When you're at the show, you will have a good time. They are making arenas and concert houses today that offer a wonderful experience from every seating area. And when you're at the show, you will enjoy it, regardless of your seat. Especially when you consider how much you paid for your seat.
But perhaps just as frustrating as this, Ticketmaster requires that you retype some words they give you, just to assure that there is fairness in the system, e.t.c., e.t.c.
If you fail to enter the word correctly, you receive a prompt.
I wouldn't be so irked if the words were easier to read. Sometimes it's easy to make out the letters, but sometimes "b"s look like "n"s, and "n"s have dots over them, and then you wonder if that's really an "n", or if it's an "i" with a short "l" next to it, and oh, my gosh, someone is going to get the better tickets if I don't hurry up!
Now, this one is a bit clumped in the second word, with strange markings around the "o" (unless it's a "q").
But perhaps this is my favorite. I can almost swear that that first word is a Japanese character.
Well, anyhow, I am quite excited to see Avenue Q with my loved one. It's going to be a wonderful night. Just another month and a half, or so, to go. After a rough week, buying these tickets really perks me up.
