Tickets for Wicked that won't bankrupt me?

Wiggly_Worm

Help! I want to buy two tickets for Wicked, but an't find any online for less than £50 each, even though they're advertised as "from £15". I'll be going to London especially for this show, so don't fancy travelling down from Yorkshire to queue up on the morning and hope I get a day ticket Any ideas anyone? This is a kind of once-in-a-lifetime gift for a girl who's been obsessed with the Wizard of Oz and Wicked since she was tiny (she's a teenager now), but never been able to see it.

Thanks for any advice

Geoggy

even if you got cheap tickets they would be restricted view, so if it's a once in a lifetime then you are either going to have to pay or take the risk on an "on the day ticket"

usual places for online tickets are www.lastminute.com / www.seetickets.com

day seat details are below;

http://www.wickedwestend.co.uk/wicked-musical-london/wicked-tickets.htm

newport.david

i paid £60 a ticket for that reason (and had a perfect view). look up the seating for the venue online and buy from a place that gives you the seat number before you pay. also, you will find places online that rank the seat numbers and tell you if its a good one or not. you might be lucky and find a good ranked seat in a not so expensive location.

dont be late either - if your even a minute late you will have to wait for about 20 minutes watching it with the other late people, basically from the sound desk then you'll get walked to your seat. kinda spoils it!

The_One_Who

Theatre Monkey is a really useful site for assessing how good (or otherwise) seats are. And Ticketmaster now lets you choose your own seat rather than just going for 'best available'.

I was looking for Wicked tickets as well and couldn't find any decent seat in the lower price bands. For the previous three shows I have seen (Lord of the Rings, The Lion King and Avenue Q) it was possibly to get really good seats for the middle price band. For Wicked it seems to go from being £62 is the vast majority of seats, to about £17 for a back row up in the gods.

madcal87

Front row tickets for £25
http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/646332/wicked-the-musical-25-front-row?page=2

cardiffforthefacup

try this it compares all the offers:
http://www.comparetheatretickets.com

meryll83

Are the £25 day tickets available for Saturday matinees and evenings, or just mid-week?

And you turn up at the theatre box office itself, correct?

Psychofly

There was a post on HotUKDeals about buying tickets from the website of a newspaper. Unfortunately I can't remember who it was, I thought it was the Telegraph but the site looks totally different. We booked 2 full price tickets in the stalls (row M, aisle seats) for £40 each and the show was fantastic. Think we booked in the first week of March and the show we saw was on the 17th. Not a great help maybe but if you can track down the post on HotUKDeals - which I can't find, included dinner somewhere but didn't go with that offer - then maybe you'll have luck finding a good price.

The other alternative is to take pot luck and try the tkts booth in Leicester Square on the day. We did this on the 18th and booked 2 shows, a matinee of Blood Brothers and evening performance of We Will Rock You. Both times full price tickets and the seats were fantastic positioned just right on the circle. Total cost was £120, an absolute bargain for 2 amazing shows - although We Will Rock You was an AWFUL musical, the music just made it great.

lizzielondon

meryll83 wrote: »

Are the £25 day tickets available for Saturday matinees and evenings, or just mid-week?

And you turn up at the theatre box office itself, correct?

when my OH got day tickets for Billy Elliot had had to get in the Q at 7am by which time there were already touts there :eek:

lizzielondon

for wicked we phoned the box office direct for restricted view tickets which we couldn't find available online- and they were fine, you could see everything really- they were on the left side of the front row of the circle

Norfolk_Jim

I was happy with my pot luck best available tickets for Joseph from lastminute.com. I paid £36 each for £65 tickets and was seated 4 rows front the front of the grand circle.
The fellow in the seat 7 rows behind had paid £70 at ticketmaster for his (inc booking fee etc) so I felt I had done very well.
In the interval I went and looked at some of those headline "from" ticket seats and the view was very poor in many cases. I so rarely get to go to the theatre I'd be very disappointed with those - though I once put up with one for Phantom, the singing being the same wherever I sat.