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yk2004 Feb 8th, 2010 06:58 PM

Ah! Mon amie, good luck in the morning. [No pun intended :)] Let us know what happened with the online booking!

Apres_Londee Feb 9th, 2010 01:07 AM

omg I'm trying to get on the ROH website but it's crashed. I knew it. Everyone is trying to get tickets to see JDF.

Apres_Londee Feb 9th, 2010 01:14 AM

Wow, so I finally got onto the website. I'm number 1,875 in queue waiting to buy tickets.

Apres_Londee Feb 9th, 2010 01:24 AM

No. 1415 in queue. I'm really nervous because I'm trying to get tickets for opening night. All I can say is, I hope they have a strict limit on the number you can buy. Some scalper jerk is probably scooping them all up.

Apres_Londee Feb 9th, 2010 01:41 AM

No. 678 in queue now.

Apres_Londee Feb 9th, 2010 02:02 AM

I just got to no. 89 in queue but the website just crashed again. I can't believe it.

Apres_Londee Feb 9th, 2010 02:12 AM

Well, the website's back up and now I'm back at no. 1,802 in queue. I'm calling them.

Apres_Londee Feb 9th, 2010 02:16 AM

And it's a busy signal. Big surprise.

Apres_Londee Feb 9th, 2010 03:25 AM

Well, that was fun. But I got my tickets! Finally got to book them online. And I think they are decent seats, in the center balcony. There were only a few tickets left, no doubt they will be sold out by the end of the day.

Here's the ROH seating plan, might as well leave it here for anyone doing future searches.

https://www.roh.org.uk/uploadedFiles...s/BP2-0910.pdf

yk2004 Feb 9th, 2010 07:14 AM

You've got to be kidding me! I can't believe it's that NUTS! I just tried to go on their website, and I'm immediately directed to the waiting room, so I can't even find out if the performance is sold out yet or not.

Your seats sound great. So were you up for 2.5 hrs in the virtual waiting room? It was absolutely awful that the site crashed and you were put back in the end of the queue!

Which day are you going?

Apres_Londee Feb 9th, 2010 02:22 PM

Yep. 2.5 hours waiting, plus the website crashed twice and there was nothing but busy signals from the box office phone number. I am so lucky to have gotten tickets at all, let alone decent ones! We're going opening night, Monday 17th (my dates changed around since when I first made this thread)

I just checked the website and JDF's performances are pretty much sold out- there are a couple of 650GP boxes available on a couple of nights but that's it!

yk2004 Feb 9th, 2010 03:34 PM

<i>I just checked the website and JDF's performances are pretty much sold out- there are a couple of 650GP boxes available on a couple of nights but that's it!</i>

((Y)) Good job! Persistence paid off! I love opening night - there's so much anticipation and electricity in the air. Enjoy!

yk2004 Feb 9th, 2010 05:26 PM

So I just found out (from another forum) that some people have 2 or more windows open at the same time, so in case one window crashes, they don't lose their spot in the virtual queue like you did!

*** Filing this info for future use ***

yk2004 May 18th, 2010 08:05 AM

Apres_Londee, how was it? I was thinking of you yesterday!

Apres_Londee May 23rd, 2010 06:35 AM

Hi yk! It was absolutely wonderful, the hightlight of my trip! I made a quick post on the opera thread about it. I was thrilled with our seats, we had a perfect centre view of the stage. Worth every penny and every minute spent in the virtual queue.


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