we tried to go see wicked this weekend. when it did the pre-broadway run a year or so ago, tickets were scalping for $500 apiece, and that was just too rich for my blood. really, a wicked ticket or a month's rent... tough choice, but i'm going to go with what's behind door number 2, alex. yes, i've won a month's rent! sponsored by becca's checkbook! whoo-hoo!
wicked is finishing up it's touring production here in san francisco, and the tickets are just as expensive as they were before. $85 for an orchestra ticket and $40 for a balcony seat. yeah, $40 for nosebleed seats where you need to bring massive binoculars to determine which witch is green. no thanks. and craigslist is still home to the blown-out-of-proportion ticket prices. but the orpheum was offering "lottery tickets." nothing to help subsidize public education, mind you, but you basically got to the show really early, put your name in a hat, and if called, pay $25 to practically sit onstage and sing along w/the cast and crew. not a bad deal for a month-long run that has been sold out since the land of time and which people are performing pony-tricks to get tickets to.
so we went on saturday trying to get lotto tickets for the 8pm show... but the line was around the corner and down larkin! after counting more than 250 semi-strung out theater geeks, families of 4, and single lonely men, i felt hopeless. todd and i each submitted our names for 2 tickets, hoping to double our chances, but after waiting for an hour, our names were not called, and we had to click our heels three times together and say... ok, we didn't get that far, we just hopped on bart and attempted to eat sushi. i say attempted b/c there was an hour and a half wait. so we went to kezar to drink and watch the giants game. but that was sort of blah. so we ended up at a bluegrass music event at the local coffee shop... which wasn't quite our cup of tea. ha. i think i need to talk w/the wizard and ask him for a better social calendar.
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