Anonymous wrote:Also/ that’s not bizarre, that’s how they do it. They wait until a reasonable time (usually not in the middle of a famous solo or anything) about 10min into the show and then let in the stragglers all at once

That is pretty standard for the KC.

Also/ that’s not bizarre, that’s how they do it. They wait until a reasonable time (usually not in the middle of a famous solo or anything) about 10min into the show and then let in the stragglers all at once

Anonymous wrote:I was there last night. Lots of magats in attendance - botoxed ladies with blow outs in ball gowns and frat boys in tuxes. Sadly, I heard lots of cheering for Trump, and very few (drowned out boos). When the show stared maybe 15 percent empty seats in the orchestra level? Then, bizarrely, ten minutes in , the doors on both sides opened and probably 100-200 ppl streamed in (in the dark, cast singing!) and began shuffling down aisles looking for empty seats. After about 5 minutes of this (so rude and distracting) all seats were filled.

Yea, almost as if it was impossible to get to the Kennedy center yesterday evening due to security measures and people were running late! Remember no more WFH so people had to struggle with getting home from work and getting back out again too.

I was there last night. Lots of magats in attendance - botoxed ladies with blow outs in ball gowns and frat boys in tuxes. Sadly, I heard lots of cheering for Trump, and very few (drowned out boos). When the show stared maybe 15 percent empty seats in the orchestra level? Then, bizarrely, ten minutes in , the doors on both sides opened and probably 100-200 ppl streamed in (in the dark, cast singing!) and began shuffling down aisles looking for empty seats. After about 5 minutes of this (so rude and distracting) all seats were filled.

Anonymous wrote:You guys are seriously such a bunch of elitist bores. You really think you're sending a strong message to Trump by boycotting the Kennedy Center? All you're doing is hurting the employees and traveling companies. But good, hope it makes you feel superior!

I think there was a pretty strong message last night. I'm a KC donor who goes to almost every show because I have a theatre obsessed kid. I have never seen it as empty as it has been since Trump took over.

It was even pretty empty last night. There was a KC usher at the Foggy Bottom metro trying to give away free tickets to anyone who was dressed somewhat nicely. No one was taking her up on the offer.

There were lots of boos for JD & Usha when they entered and then again for Trump & Melania when they entered. There were some cheers for them too. The crowd went wild and cheered very loudly when some drag queens & kings entered to take their seats down front.

I'm the PP who has even had trouble giving away tickets for free who told OP that they'd probably have a hard time selling them.

The new board organized a benefit with a pre-show reception and tickets to last night's performance that raised over $10 million dollars for the Kennedy Center's overdue maintenance and debt. The previous center leadership had sloppy books, with the center deeply in the hole financially. Grennel has more of these events planned to dig the Kennedy Center out of its fiscal hole from previous management.

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Anonymous wrote:News this morning was the the audience cheered the drag queens in attendance (maybe they took the free tickets?) and booed Herr Drumpf.

I heard that too. Which is interesting, considering the one or two posters on here who insist that only MAGAs would dare go to a nazi institution like the Kennedy center. Sounds like the majority of those in attendance were just normal people, mostly democrats who dislike trump, who also want to see Les Mis. Imagine that.

Nah..

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-booed-cheered-les-miserables-kennedy-center-b2768497.html

When one group of ticket holders learned that the president, his deputy, and their wives would be at the center, they reportedly donated their tickets to a group of drag performers, who duly protested in the auditorium to cheers from the audience, a moment captured in videos posted to social media last night.

also, don't you think choosing Les Mis as the opening show is quite ironic given the wannabe King's attendance and being chairman of the center?

The musical was adapted by Claude-Michel Schonberg, Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel in 1980 from Victor Hugo’s sprawling novel of 1862 and tells the story of French peasant Jean Valjean, whom the single-minded Inspector Javert pursues over a petty crime as France lurches towards revolution, with young idealists coming together to oppose a government they consider corrupt.

The point was not lost on California Governor Gavin Newsom, currently at odds with the Trump administration over the policing of anti-ICE demonstrations in Los Angeles, who tweeted in exasperation: “Someone explain the plot to him.”

Reminds me of when the RNC was playing CCW "Fortunate Son" at their convention, and Fogerty had to remind Trump's people that the song was about people like Trump. Totally clueless.

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Anonymous wrote:You guys are seriously such a bunch of elitist bores. You really think you're sending a strong message to Trump by boycotting the Kennedy Center? All you're doing is hurting the employees and traveling companies. But good, hope it makes you feel superior!

This entire site is elitest bores. It caters to them like Fox News caters to MAGA.

I prefer educated and elite to uneducated and crazy.

-signed a C rated state school grad

The most uneducated and tiresome people in this country are those shrieking Nazis and fascists at anyone they don't like.

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Anonymous wrote:News this morning was the the audience cheered the drag queens in attendance (maybe they took the free tickets?) and booed Herr Drumpf.

I heard that too. Which is interesting, considering the one or two posters on here who insist that only MAGAs would dare go to a nazi institution like the Kennedy center. Sounds like the majority of those in attendance were just normal people, mostly democrats who dislike trump, who also want to see Les Mis. Imagine that.

Maybe they understand sunk costs

Anonymous wrote:News this morning was the the audience cheered the drag queens in attendance (maybe they took the free tickets?) and booed Herr Drumpf.

I heard that too. Which is interesting, considering the one or two posters on here who insist that only MAGAs would dare go to a nazi institution like the Kennedy center. Sounds like the majority of those in attendance were just normal people, mostly democrats who dislike trump, who also want to see Les Mis. Imagine that.

News this morning was the the audience cheered the drag queens in attendance (maybe they took the free tickets?) and booed Herr Drumpf.

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Anonymous wrote:No one wants them
Nazi performance tickets

I mean they're for Les Mis, which is hardly Nazi propaganda, and they were purchased before the election, so, spare me.

I think PP means that no one wants to buy them now because it would be supporting the Nazi party, where the Nazi leader is now the chairman of the Kennedy Center.

I know what she meant and I still rolled my eyes. Just looking for apolitical, concrete advice on how to sell Kennedy Center tickets online, if anyone has done so before.

And you got what you were looking for! Only a MAGA would want tickets.

I thought you people MAGA are too stupid and uncultured to go to the theatre. So which is it?
For the record, most people who live close enough to the KC to attend shows there are far from MAGA. They just aren’t extremist enough to boycott the KC.

9% of DC residents voted for the felon in 2024, which was strangely ticking up. Most live in ward 3, so….stupid yes, uncultured no.

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Anonymous wrote:No one wants them
Nazi performance tickets

I mean they're for Les Mis, which is hardly Nazi propaganda, and they were purchased before the election, so, spare me.

I think PP means that no one wants to buy them now because it would be supporting the Nazi party, where the Nazi leader is now the chairman of the Kennedy Center.

I know what she meant and I still rolled my eyes. Just looking for apolitical, concrete advice on how to sell Kennedy Center tickets online, if anyone has done so before.

And you got what you were looking for! Only a MAGA would want tickets.

I thought you people MAGA are too stupid and uncultured to go to the theatre. So which is it?
For the record, most people who live close enough to the KC to attend shows there are far from MAGA. They just aren’t extremist enough to boycott the KC.

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Anonymous wrote:No one wants them
Nazi performance tickets

I mean they're for Les Mis, which is hardly Nazi propaganda, and they were purchased before the election, so, spare me.

I think PP means that no one wants to buy them now because it would be supporting the Nazi party, where the Nazi leader is now the chairman of the Kennedy Center.

I know what she meant and I still rolled my eyes. Just looking for apolitical, concrete advice on how to sell Kennedy Center tickets online, if anyone has done so before.

And you got what you were looking for! Only a MAGA would want tickets.

Anonymous wrote:Wow this thread blew up! This is OP. I still see no concrete advice on the logistics of selling them, but, I put them on stub hub and sold them for above face value within an hour and transferred with Apple wallet to the buyers email. In case this info helps anyone else in the future who can’t attend a show.

Thankfully they were for tomorrow’s show , not tonight’s.

Anyways seems like there was more than enough demand despite what a few of you guys seem to think.

Signed, lifelong democrat and lover of musicals

No, but there was concrete advice on calling the box office and paying to change days.

Anyway, congrats on selling them.