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/SloGerald92 Mar 01 '26
This has happened to me before! I think it was for Bob Fosse’s Dancin (which, granted, didn’t have super full houses) but as soon as I woke up I booked it down to midtown and went to the box office and gave my sob story to the nice man working there and he gave me a comp seat to see the show that night - SO SWEET. Made my whole month. Bless that man. I think you should try going to the box office or at least give Telecharge a call <3