So what time should we line up for Sufjan Tickets?

Washington Post recommends camping out. Line expected to start at 8 AM Friday. Accurate?

thursday evening … lol

Damn, 8 AM on FRIDAY?! I was planning on getting there around 7 AM on Saturday. Maybe I need to rethink this.

Call me what you will, but I'm pretty sure tickets for Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" are handed out immediately after the Sufjan tickets, and I think that'll be the better performance.

Okay, so I just found out that tickets are being distributed today. Anyone have any idea what the line is like? Is it worth it to trek down there? It's just after midnight right now, so I imagine either I'm already shit out of luck or I'd have to go down NOW and freeze my ass off for eight hours or so. Any information that could help me make a decision, anyone?

There are over 2000 seats in the place. I highly doubt 1000 people are gonna be sitting out all night. Just get there early tomorrow morning.

Jeez folks, it's Sufjan Stevens, not Jesus Christ.

Apparently if my friends and I had gotten there at 5:30 like we were planning we would have been out of luck. Frankly, Sufjan Stevens is not worth a night in sub-freezing temperatures.

We got there at 2:00AM and we were around #500 in line…I'm guessing they wee half way through the ticket allotment when we got ours. ncluding the morning arrivals, there must have been 1,500 to 2,000 people there trying to get tickets.

The turnout was amazing. We got there an hour later than planned, but I'm still not sure if we would have had any luck.
So if anyone doesn't have anyone to give their second ticket to, I would gladly take it off their hands. For money even. ;)

is he really worth all this fuss?

no.

I wonder if it has more to do with the "I stood in a line for X hours" story you can tell friends/family than the performer. Given how easy it is to purchase tickets online now, being in line for a night seems like a flashback to 1987.

Random Citizen, when I was your age, we stood in line for three weeks to see Jimi Hendrix at the MCI Center!

Jeez folks, it's Sufjan Stevens, not Jesus Christ.

True. This is ridiculous.

Random Citizen, when I was your age, we stood in line for three weeks to see Jimi Hendrix at the MCI Center!

And you also walked uphill in the snow both ways and liked it, too, right? :p

Thank goodness I decided not to drive down. Sounds like it would have been a huge waste of time (and gas).

And for crying out loud, people, we really don't give a shit whether you think seeing Sufjan is worth standing around in line for lord knows how long in the cold. Some of us really like him, and some of us (like myself) have never seen him. People have camped out for tickets to special events for decades. You're acting like this is the first time anything like this has happened, and people are crazy for even considering it.

I wonder how much the three pairs on eBay will end up going for…

go in the emergency exit door in the main corrider and take the steps up the the theatre. this exits into a hallway on the side of the theatre. your on your own trying to find a seat. don't tell anyone.

I would have rather not camped out…if it were a usual performance on sale I would have preferred to go online and pay for tix. But having enjoyed Sufjan's performance in Phili last year, I didn't want to miss out on him performing with folks from the Opera House Orchestra. I don't like messing around with eBay or Craigslist, so camping out was the only option for me.

As for it being worth it, I guess I won't know until the actual performance.

I'll buy your extra ticket ;)