This morning tickets go on sale at the Saint Paul Ordway Theatre for Monty Python’s SPAMalot. Assuming that it wouldn’t be busy down there, I slept in until 9:00 and casually made my way down there, only to see a large flury of activity and a long, complex and winding line of people.

At the door they were handing out labels to give to you for the order in which they call ticket ordering—I’m 542. According to the ditsy girl at the door, I may or may not want to wait and just order online. She told me that they’re starting to get over a hundred orders placed in an hour and that it may be picking up. Well, if she’d stop to think that it’s only been an hour and a half, she’d realize that she hasn’t much historical data to make such a judgement call.

Even if they were averaging over a hundred orders per hour, that’d put me at waiting until AFTER noon-o’clock. Considering that I have to leave my place around 12:15 for Cirque De Soleil this afternoon, I don’t think I’m going to hang out around here much longer. [I'm actually at the Dunn Bros just a few blocks away taking advantage of their lovely, free WIFI access. Thank you Dunn Bros. Their yogurt parfait was good.]

October 8, 2006, 9:48 am

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