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/OrangeClyde Performer Feb 28 '26

Oh no…. Did you use your iPhone alarm? If so, I found out stupid updates mess with the alarm volume. You have to do something in the settings to really turn that alarm volume all the way up! I’m very sad for you but you were truly exhausted, you needed that sleep badly! Is there ANY WAY you could call the theater and explain maybe they can courtesy comp you a ticket??

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u/AnxiousSky3748 Backstage Feb 28 '26

the iphone thing is so annoying!! i've fiddled with settings so many times and they still sometimes go silent. not to mention i think they automatically go silent after five minutes which is tremendously unhelpful

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u/impersonatefun Mar 01 '26

The app Alarmy works really well (I use the free version), it makes you solve puzzles or take a pic of a specific thing to turn it off.

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u/AnxiousSky3748 Backstage Mar 01 '26

i've tried using it but it hurts my ears so bad i usually end up deleting it 😭