Kennedy center requires tickets for infants!

[Anonymous]

Good troll op..sounds like you got a lot of people to take you seriously

[Anonymous]

Just take your baby to Ruth’s Chris .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it's a way to dissuade people from bringing their infants to a play at the Kennedy Center.

This is exactly what it is. And I FULLY support it.

Live kids and have a few - but I don’t want my performances ruined by crying babies.

[Anonymous]

Ageism!!!!!

Pure and simple and racist Ageism!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Sounds good to me.

[Anonymous]

Great way to keep squalling infants out of a play. Bravo!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To PPs - What wrong with taking an infant to play? If you sit bar the back and duck out if the baby fussed it should be no big deal. Or should adults stop living their lives and listen to "wheels on the bus" on a loop for the next five years?

Is this a serious question?

Seriously, because you don’t want to listen to wheels on the bus; you think it’s your right to subject 300+ people to a potentially disruptive performance because you want to bring your infant?

Here’s an idea, get a sitter instead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: Just take your baby to Ruth’s Chris .

Yes! On New Years Eve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it's a way to dissuade people from bringing their infants to a play at the Kennedy Center.

+1 though in fairness, an infant might create very little stir. It's the age 3-5 set that often can't sit still through a performance. And yet, many parents feel entitled to take them, and even if their child is moving or making noise, they stay through the whole performance. This is entitlement.

Oh chill out. Every kid is different. I took my 6 year old to the ballet at the KC, and there were tons of younger kids there. My kid sat through the whole performance without an issue, and I didn't notice any yelling or screaming of any other kids either

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great way to keep squalling infants out of a play. Bravo!

Yes, smart!

[Anonymous]

The Kennedy Center lost us after how they handled the "waiting room" for Hamilton tickets. We didn't renew our membership.

[Anonymous]

The Kennedy Center is not the place for a baby. It's by no means spacious and the seats are tiny. It would be horrible to be seated next to someone with an infant on their lap as it would practically be in your lap too.

[Anonymous]

They should charge double for children under 3 . And yes I am a parent.

[Anonymous]

Granted this is a 3 year old thread but since no one gave the correct answer yet...

It's about the fire code. At least when I worked ticket sales for venues in Boston it was. The occupancy numbers for theaters count any size human as a human so everyone had to have a ticket to be within the fire code rules.

It really was that simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Granted this is a 3 year old thread but since no one gave the correct answer yet...

It's about the fire code. At least when I worked ticket sales for venues in Boston it was. The occupancy numbers for theaters count any size human as a human so everyone had to have a ticket to be within the fire code rules.

It really was that simple.

I'm not sure that's true in all cases. I went to the circus, and didn't have to buy a ticket for my child under 2, same for kiddie theaters where they only require seats for kids older than 1. But the kennedy center is a nice night out type of place, so I can see why they discourage infants.