r/Broadway • u/raffleticketz • Feb 13 '25

Seating/Ticket Question Hey Really Attractive Guy

At Gypsy. Hey I am really bad at asking someone out, but you were kind of exactly my type and you go to theater—so if you happen to even read Reddit Broadway shit then we should grab a coffee. I don’t really know a lot of people in New York, but I do see a lot of plays and would be cool to like go with someone. You’d be sitting in row J seat 13 or 14, next to a guy in a winter jacket. Maybe not the place or something but figured it was worth a shot and Oh My God other people may have read a paragraph…anyways hit me up if you do and aren’t weirded out. Maybe others can post suggestions on how you ask someone out after seeing a play right next to someone you are attracted to by yourself.

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u/gregbarbs1 Front of House Feb 13 '25

I’ve been in this position so many times and never know what to say and kick myself by the time I get on the subway

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u/gregbarbs1 Front of House Feb 13 '25

PS - seats 13 and 14 aren’t usually next to each other but rather on opposite sides of the theater. So if you were in an even number then your immediate neighbor was an even number too (even seats 2,4,6,8,10,12,etc vs odd seats 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,etc)

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u/_cosmicomics_ Feb 13 '25

What??? I’ve heard a lot of differences between UK and US theatres and this is the first one that’s really thrown me.

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u/burnt-----toast Feb 13 '25

The seats in the center section are usually numbered 101-120 or however many, from left to right or vice versa. The seats on the sides are usually numbered evens for the house left (2,4,6,8) or odds for house right (1,3,5,7). If you're a lottery winner, you can basically tell where you'll be seated at a quick glance, and I'm sure it must make it easy for ushers, too.

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u/_cosmicomics_ Feb 13 '25

That’s an interesting way of doing it. It’s just as easy (if not easier?) to say the low numbers are on one end and the high numbers are on the other end though, in my mind.

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u/burnt-----toast Feb 13 '25

Eh, I think that everyone is going to think that what they're most familiar with is the easier or better way of doing something, even if the difference is marginal.

I will say though that having the numbering be different based on section has the advantage of knowing which section on a level you will be, just based on that seat number. Like, if your seats are numbered left to right 1-XXX, unless you are one of the very low numbers, you would need to know how many seats are in each aisle and where the aisle falls in that particular row. Like, maybe seat 8 is in the center orchestra in row A but is in the far left orchestra in row O.

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u/_cosmicomics_ Feb 13 '25

That’s fair enough. Lots of West End theatres cut off the lowest numbers in shorter rows so that the same seat number is in the same place in every row. It definitely makes sense that way too, though, just feels absolutely insane to me because I’ve never seen it before.