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Post by anita on Oct 14, 2021 9:22:50 GMT
I don't have a mobile.
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Post by Mark on Oct 14, 2021 9:27:25 GMT
I loved picking up tickets at the box office as there was always the chance you may have been upgraded. Loved when this happened. I remember booking one of the £15 back row stalls seats for Beautiful and when I went to pick it up he looked at it, and put a big line through the seat number and moved me to a premium stalls seat! Lastminute.com occasionally used to have some amazing deals, and you typically wouldn't get your seat numbers until you arrived. More often than not you'd get a nice upgrade. I've had a handful of paper tickets since venues reopened - Pippin at Charing Cross, Back to the Future from Todaytix Rush, Indecent at the Chocolate Factory, Oleanna at the Arts. Very rare though. I even bought last minute tickets for Pretty Woman at the box office about 20 mins before curtain and they were still emailed to me!
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Post by CG on the loose on Oct 15, 2021 10:20:33 GMT
I've had physical tickets from a few regional venues, but the vast majority have been e-ticket only, to such an extent that I now forget to check my ticket wallet and have twice turned up without the physical tickets for the rare shows still issuing them! I do miss them, I usually buy a programme (at least on a first visit) and tuck the ticket in to remind me when I went. An e-ticket print out is just not the same. Think I'll buy a stack of A6 cards to write the ticket details on for the programme.
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Post by G on Oct 19, 2021 10:03:26 GMT
No particular nostalgia for physical tickets but on one occasion I got to the theatre with 2% battery on my phone and barely made it inside the theatre (with no printout of the e-ticket and no power bank). Good for the environment I suppose but not great for me that evening!
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Post by Samwise on Oct 30, 2021 0:36:46 GMT
There are obvious advantages during a pandemic as it means people aren't standing in queues swapping airborne droplets and box office staff have fewer droplet-inhaling face-to-face encounters.
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Post by fansylvanians on Nov 5, 2021 2:14:45 GMT
I loved picking up tickets at the box office as there was always the chance you may have been upgraded. Loved when this happened. I remember booking one of the £15 back row stalls seats for Beautiful and when I went to pick it up he looked at it, and put a big line through the seat number and moved me to a premium stalls seat! Lastminute.com occasionally used to have some amazing deals, and you typically wouldn't get your seat numbers until you arrived. More often than not you'd get a nice upgrade. I've had a handful of paper tickets since venues reopened - Pippin at Charing Cross, Back to the Future from Todaytix Rush, Indecent at the Chocolate Factory, Oleanna at the Arts. Very rare though. I even bought last minute tickets for Pretty Woman at the box office about 20 mins before curtain and they were still emailed to me! Rush tickets for BTTF are no longer collect from box office, they’re now sent as an email.
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