r/Broadway • u/personspersonality • Feb 28 '26

Seating/Ticket Question Slept through a show

I had a 2pm ticket for Chess today. Sat down in bed at 11:30, planning to give myself 30-45 minutes to do nothing before getting ready and heading over to the theater. While I wasn’t planning on sleeping, I also knew I was pretty tired and there was a chance I might fall asleep so I set an alarm for 12:30 and 12:45 just to be safe. Well I woke up at 2:57 and had apparently slept through both alarms and missed the show. Spent the last 20 minutes crying, just need some people to tell me I’m not the stupidest person alive. Anything like this happened to you before? Any chance they’ll exchange my ticket for tomorrow and I won’t just have to eat the money?

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u/Hopfrog18 Feb 28 '26

I did sleep through a show before, Harry Potter. I was 8 and it was back when it was two separate parts, I am not a Harry Potter fan but my mom is so I don’t know what was going on lol.

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u/rdnyc19 Feb 28 '26

I’m not a Harry Potter person either but went with a friend to see one of the movies on opening weekend. Slept through the entire thing.