The Bolshoi Theater has finished selling tickets for The Nutcracker
Photo: Ivan MAKEEV
Last night there was another collapse at the Bolshoi Theater box office. They threw away additional tickets for The Nutcracker, which the theater announced three days before the start of sales: “On November 26, additional pre-sale of tickets for the ballet The Nutcracker opens (December 2023 and January 2024). Tickets are sold in pre-sale for different dates and different places.
Ticket prices range from 3,000 to 20,000 rubles.
The rules are the same, “subject to special conditions.” On the day of the pre-sale, after zero hours, security agents will give citizens who approach the ticket office bracelets with the queue number. No more than 250 pieces per day. Then, with these bracelets and a passport (when purchasing additional tickets, you will need documents proving relationship, copies of passports or birth certificates), you will have to go to the ticket office again to buy the tickets.
In the afternoon, starting at 8:00 p.m., the remaining tickets will be available on the website and at the theater box office…
The theater wanted to do everything possible by selling additional tickets. But it turned out as always.
On the night of November 26, a huge queue formed at the box office. People remained in the cold for several hours.
Buying tickets on the website is also a huge stress: “The website was already installed in the morning!”
“Yes, nesting dolls… We just chilled! What a disgusting attitude towards people. Line up in the cold at 12:00 AM to buy these lousy bracelets. And in the morning he goes to the box office again to buy tickets. Late night queues, bracelets, ticket sales without artists. The Bolshoi, no theater is allowed to do this…” viewers write in the comments. But the main question is: where did the extra tickets suddenly come from if the pre-sales ended on November 19?
“We have received 250 round-trip tickets,” they explained to me at the Bolshoi Theater box office. – Someone realized that he could not attend the function on the chosen dates. That’s why I handed in my ticket. This is possible if you deliver your tickets at least 10 days before the performance…
The cashier’s words sound incredible. And unconvincing. It is doubtful that the people who completed this unthinkable quest, frozen in the cold at night, suddenly decided to reject the tickets obtained at that price. Just fantastic.
During the battle for the chance to go to Russia’s most popular ballet, everything happened. Fights, letters to the prosecutor’s office and the police are a common story, no wonder. But I want to talk about the heroes of this epic. “Here we have all become a family,” the happy owner of the bracelet told reporters. He found people close to her in spirit in her queue. To do this, he had to wait in line for 11 hours (minus 8, by the way). “All the people are very positive, we all became friends, now we have our own channel on Telegram,” the Muscovite happily shared.
The champion in this race for beauty was not her, but a resident of Krasnoyarsk, Elena.
On one of the busy days, she was the first to receive a bracelet so that in the morning, when the ticket office opened, she could buy a ticket to the ballet The Nutcracker. For her sake, she came from Krasnoyarsk and stood in line … 59 hours! She didn’t leave the cash registers, here she slept on wooden pallets. And all to go to a performance with my 15-year-old daughter on December 31st. This is the New Year’s gift I decided to give myself…
And yet people are outraged by the artificially created deficit. “1,740 seats, 20 performances, that’s 36,000 tickets! Where are they? – the audience asks the theater administration. “Stop selling tickets with wristbands, work on the website, don’t sell tickets to resellers (everyone has known their faces for about 10 years) and there will be enough tickets for everyone.”
THE NAIS IS OFFICIAL EDITOR ON NAIS NEWS