{"id":2591,"date":"2017-05-19T10:19:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2017-05-19T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:19:24","slug":"harry-potter-pure-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/harry-potter-pure-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter and Pure Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst running work errands last week, I found myself next to the Palace Theatre<\/a>, currently home to\u00a0Harry Potter and the Cursed Child<\/a>. On a whim,\u00a0I popped in casually at lunchtime to see if I could score a set of returned tickets for\u2026 well, anytime. I wasn\u2019t picky.\u00a0Tickets sell out a\u00a0year<\/em><\/a> in advance and I\u2019d take what I could get.<\/p>\n

My optimism paid off, and the box office guy let me know a single pair of seats had just become available for this past Sunday. The play is notoriously hard<\/a> to get a ticket for – people all over the world queue online for hours waiting for batches of 250,000 tickets to be released, only to have them sell out within the day! After I got done internally shrieking a la Moaning Myrtle<\/em>,\u00a0<\/em>I gratefully paid just\u00a0\u00a320 each for 5th row<\/em> Part I and II tickets. \u00a0I couldn\u2019t believe it! I had been trying to get HP tickets for TWENTY NINE<\/em> Fridays through their Friday Forty<\/a>–\u00a0where they raffle off 40 tickets to the general public – and had never succeeded in winning tickets. When I asked the box office how many people participated in the Friday Forty each week, they said their guess was up to TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE from all around the world. That explains why I had never been able to win…<\/em><\/p>\n

I showed up to the performance and everyone was so excited to be a part of history in this amazing way.\u00a0You can instantly tell you\u2019re part of something special, something only a select few will ever get to experience at this time and place, and I just felt so filled with gratitude I wanted to burst into tears. Or pee my pants. Either way, I was feeling a lil\u2019 leaky.<\/p>\n

However, when I finally got to see my restricted seat,\u00a0I realized the box office guy had\u00a0conveniently left out that my restricted seats were actually so restricted they should have been marketed as “audio only” seats. NOT COOL.\u00a0At the first intermission an hour through the show, I channeled my inner divalicious American and asked to see a manager.\u00a0I knew the show was sold out, but I refused to accept my seat fate. The manager was SO helpful, and let me know I could move over to H12, a sold seat in the stalls that hadn\u2019t been claimed. I ended up front and center in the \u00a3250 seats for 75% of\u00a0the show for 16%\u00a0of the price and though I’m not good at math even I know that’s a good deal!<\/p>\n

MIRACLES HAPPEN.<\/p>\n

And the play itself? IT IS SO GOOD AND YOU NEED TO SEE IT. TODAY. IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE AND EXISTENCE AND YOU WILL LOVE EVERY SECOND OF IT.<\/p>\n

What performance should I see next? Let me know in the comments your current favorite!<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n

Monique<\/p>\n

\"2017-05-14<\/p>\n

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For this post and other stories please visit Monique\u2019s personal blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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