Tomorrow morning booking opens for our extremely popular and well supported local pantomine. If you want good seats anywhere close to Christmas, you need to book now. If you don't mind going later in January, you could leave it until nearer the time.
The theatre is actually setting up a room for early queuers from 6pm tonight! They are given a numbered ticket for the queue tomorrow. But... they can't go home, oh no they stay the night in this room. This is a new departure this year. At 8 am they can get into the line in the number order and more sensible people who go tomorrow can join the end of that queue. The box office opens at 9am. Online booking opens at 3pm, phone bookings the following day.
For many years in the past when 7 of us went on Boxing Day I was in that queue. Once for 4 hours.
Nowadays I am unwilling to wait so long , and as we tend to go on the 21st or 22nd December now , I can usually get good seats and avoid too long a wait.
So, I shall be joining the (hopefully much shorter) queue around midday or later. Wish me luck!
Today I had a text from DD3, saying that as we are at the theatre tomorrow night did I want to meet for something to eat first? Good idea, I said but we are going on Saturday night aren't we? No, came the reply, it's tomorrow.
I checked back on our texts and yes it was tomorrow!! As DD booked them I wasn't sure. No idea where I got Saturday from 
So, I will return, a few hours later, to the same theatre. DD3 and I are going to see Brighton Rock. I wish it was Saturday rather than tomorrow, as the snow may have gone by then!!
The theatre is actually setting up a room for early queuers from 6pm tonight! They are given a numbered ticket for the queue tomorrow. But... they can't go home, oh no they stay the night in this room. This is a new departure this year. At 8 am they can get into the line in the number order and more sensible people who go tomorrow can join the end of that queue. The box office opens at 9am. Online booking opens at 3pm, phone bookings the following day.
For many years in the past when 7 of us went on Boxing Day I was in that queue. Once for 4 hours.
Nowadays I am unwilling to wait so long , and as we tend to go on the 21st or 22nd December now , I can usually get good seats and avoid too long a wait.
So, I shall be joining the (hopefully much shorter) queue around midday or later. Wish me luck!
Today I had a text from DD3, saying that as we are at the theatre tomorrow night did I want to meet for something to eat first? Good idea, I said but we are going on Saturday night aren't we? No, came the reply, it's tomorrow.
I checked back on our texts and yes it was tomorrow!! As DD booked them I wasn't sure. No idea where I got Saturday from So, I will return, a few hours later, to the same theatre. DD3 and I are going to see Brighton Rock. I wish it was Saturday rather than tomorrow, as the snow may have gone by then!!
enjoy and I hope you get good seats for the pantomime
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