Phantom of the Opera

**mbhandy** · 24th March 08, 07:54 AM

You and your wife look very nice for the Phantom.
I got to see Robert Guillaume as the Phantom in LA years ago before he had his stroke and My girlfriend and I did not have time to get dressed up. We were walking by the hall on a visit to LA and thought what the heck let's try to get tickets. Walked up to the will call window and asked if there was any chance of getting tickets to the sold out show. The guy in the booth said "Boy are YOU lucky". Tickets had just been turned back in by some one in the show and would center 10th row be OK and they were $50 dollars apiece. The Show was in a hour and 1/2 and we didn't have time to get to our hotel and back. Had on clean Jeans and my girlfriend had on slacks and luckily regular shirts not Tshirts. So we really felt under dressed but totally enjoyed the show and could not believe our luck at the price of the Tickets and where we were seated. The couple next to us paid for their tickets from a Broker $150 each.

MrBill

**Ian.MacAllan** · 25th March 08, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by northernsky

. . . times were when people ate,

drank,

and talked

through whole performances. They would cheer parts they liked and jeer the parts they didn't. The boxes were reserved for the rich and the floor for everybody else. . .

Sounds like the reign of Elizabeth I. The Globe was famous (infamous?) for such behavior. Shakespeare even mentioned it in Hamlet: ". . . split the ears of the groundlings . . ."

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