| re: I don't understand some theatres | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:33 pm EDT 06/29/24 | |
| In reply to: I don't understand some theatres - Zelgo 02:21 pm EDT 06/25/24 | |
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| I may be wrong but I don't think anything like 1/4 of the seats at the Met are obstructed view. I think that may have been true of the old Met, which had notoriously dreadful sightlines. That was one reason (though hardly the only one) why the old Met was torn down. As a young person, I rarely sat far away. Tickets were so relatively inexpensive back then, even for a 12-year-old from a decidedly not rich family. The first time I ever sat in the balcony above a mezzanine was when I went to London at 19 on a tight budget. I found, to my surprise, it was not nearly as bad as I had expected. At one time, I thought this was just because a lot of London theatres were generally more intimate than Broadway theatres and were perhaps better designed. But in more recent times, I have sat in the second balconies of some of the smaller Broadway houses and found them not to be so bad in terms of feeling far away from the stage. I have never sat in the second balconies of the few large Broadway theatres that have them. I suspect that I would feel very far away in those. |
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