Now, there is security at these venues (metal detectors and what not) after the recent shooting tragedy in Las Vegas. In fact some attendees were even fighting over the seat numbers. Typically late comers have to wait outside the arena until the show is at a stopping point.

This might be okay for a rock concert but not for a symphony orchestra. There were people walking in well into the fourth song of the night. For an 8 pm show, the ticket clearly says to be seated by 7:45 pm (we got there before 7 pm). I would go there again but they've got to get their act together a little more. There are really no bad seats in the house. The seats were comfortable and a little larger than normal. Parking was not a problem, right outside the venue. I went with my family of seven to see the Andre Rieu Johann Strauss Orchestra. I left without being able to purchase the gospel music tickets for my septuagenarian wife. I didn’t get anywhere with these two young millennials at the Orleans box office. Dah? Ya think? I just wanted the front row tickets on the side section. She was getting increasingly impatient with me and rather disagreeably said she has no control over what people do. I said yes, any seat where a standing audience did not block my view. I told her that front row seats were available on the side sections. She didn’t listen to me and told me that the closest available seats were in the tenth row of the center sections. My view was blocked at a Roger Whitter performance a few years ago.

I asked for seats up front that would preclude the audience standing in the isles and blocking my view during the performance. I had to explain that the tickets were available on line but that I was overwhelmed by the process. The employee impatiently explained that she could not sell me tickets at the box office if the tickets weren’t available on line. That employee had trouble locating the ticketing information for the Thursday evening event scheduled for March 22nd. I explained to another millennium ticketing employee that I was there to buy the gospel music tickets in person because I was overwhelmed by the online ticketing process. There still wasn’t any line at the box office. Admittedly I arrived about five minutes early, but the box office windows were open for business. One box office employee told me to step back into line, but there wasn’t a line. I found the millennium ticketing staff to be poor listeners at best and antagonistic at worst. My attempt to purchase gospel music tickets at the Orleans box office was a very disagreeable experience.

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