My Mom, Jessica, Andrew, and I set off quite early (at 4:15 for the 7:30 show) to put our names in the drawing for the tickets. My Mom and Jess previously had purchased tickets, but they put their names in hopes of getting the two tickets for me and Andrew. Let me just say that the way the employees at Hale Theater treated this process made me feel like I was a part of the Hunger Games. You can start putting your name in the cauldron at 5:00pm and they announce the winners at 5:30pm. I was unusually sweaty and nervous during this time. One reason may have been the fact that they said you had to show I.D if you won the tickets and I did not have any. Apparently having my mother and husband there to vouch for me wasn't enough. Luckily it didn't matter-- I didn't win... Let me also point out that you had to have cash for the tickets.
We had made all types of pacts with "friends" my mother had made in the short few minutes waiting in line. "If both your names get drawn, we get your tickets." etc.. The people that were standing both in front and behind us in line to put their names in the cauldron both got called. Lucky them. After the dramatic experience of not hearing my name (which would have been devastating anyway), my Mom's, Andrew's, or Jessica's the announcer who had the loudest, most suspenseful voice told us that there were some tickets still available for the night and we could get them for $40 a piece. Not bad if you ask me. We were able to get them, even with all the shoving going on around us. Andrew and I even got seats together which was really fortunate because they only had a few.
After those dramatic and tear-jerking few minutes, we went to Macaroni Grill to celebrate the fact that we had tickets at all. Here is a picture of us waiting to be seated. We were all smiles at this point... (note that we took dozens of pictures during the stressful time waiting for the drawing, but NONE of them turned out)
After dinner we raced back to the theater, but not before taking more pictures.
There was definitely a line to take a pic in front of this poster and we may or may not have started this trend...
Andrew and I had seats in the back row, but I'm not complaining. We didn't have to sit up in the balcony seats and we also had one aisle seat which is prime for us long-legged humans.
The play was worth every penny. My family had previously seen "Wicked" in San-Diego nearly 6 years ago and I realized quickly that I forgotten many major plot details. Andrew had never seen "Wicked" though and he absolutely loved it. Elphaba was by far my favorite because she had an amazing voice. Glinda was really good at acting and could sing very very high. The ending of the play was a little different this time, but it didn't disappoint. "Defying Gravity" was definitely the highlight of the play and probably always will be for me. It was hard for me because I know almost every word to every song and I really wanted to sing-along.
Good thing we own the "Wicked" piano music. Bad news... I can't find it. I have searched EVERYWHERE multiple times. Here's to searching once more....
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