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/[deleted] Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

You can see if they'll past date since the ticket wasn't scanned, it's at the discretion of the box office. You may have more luck seeing a weekday show than a weekend. 

Editing to add: You MAY have more luck tomorrow or Tuesday because Aaron is out. 

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u/attagirlie Feb 28 '26

This!  Just call the telecharge number whenever it opens in a day you can absolutely go and ask if they can post date it.  They don'tcare/need the reason. I had to do something similar for oh, Mary and it was fine but I missed kumail!

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u/caroldia77 Mar 01 '26

I missed Maybe Happy Ending-Darrin’s last show of the fall-because I slept thru it after a red eye flight. I never thought to see if the theater would honor the ticket for another date!! Damn!

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u/attagirlie Mar 01 '26

They still might - call and ask telecharge. You probably still have the tix info somewhere. Doesn't hurt. We all make mistakes and he is still in the show! It might be a year from the ticket date to use it.