New Venue For USSM Event
And we’re sold out again. I literally can’t get a bigger venue than this without renting out Key Arena or something. Hopefully, there aren’t too many disappointed folks out there. Look forwarding to see all 540 (!) of you in a few weeks.
Second update: We’re seeing occasional refunds on tickets sold, so tickets do open up from time to time. It’s worth checking to see if any have become available if you’re still looking to get in.
So, the response to the January 9th USSM event was overwhelming. We sold out in three hours, and then were bombarded by people wanting to attend who didn’t get tickets. So, in order to accommodate more people, we (okay, Matthew did – thanks man!) have found a larger venue for the event – Benaroya Hall. The Nordstrom Recital Hall holds 540 people, so we can essentially double the space for you guys.
This comes at a significant cost increase. The library charges a fraction of what we’re going to have to pay to rent the new space. So, to make this work, the new tickets that are being made available will cost $17 – $15 of that will come to us, and $2 goes to Brown Paper TIckets for their service charge (it goes from $0.99 to $1.99 once you cross the $10 ticket threshold). In order to cover our costs, we need to sell about 200 more tickets at this higher price, so I’m betting on there still being significant demand for this event. I think I’m right. I hope I am.
Anyway, the ticket window is open at BPT again. Again, please select “physical tickets” and have them mailed to you or print-at-home. This will make everything go much, much more smoothly on the day of the event than if we’re having to check IDs at Will Call for a couple hundred people.
There are 265 more tickets available at this price. I have no idea how long they will last. The last batch sold out in half a day. If you want to go, buy them now. Don’t wait. I can’t get a bigger venue than this. When they’re gone, they’re gone.
So, that’s the scoop – $17 gets you in, everything else is the same – January 9th, 1 pm to 5 pm, good times to be had by all.
Note – if you already bought tickets, you’re in. We’re honoring your $10 tickets. The new folks will have to bear the cost of the larger venue.
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Oh yeah, I’ve seen that place (subscriber for several years) but don’t think I’ve ever actually been in there. Does that mean no aria then?
I do a mean Figaro.
So, next time Key Arena?
I mean, it’s not like it’s being used for anything, since a Okie stole our team.
WaMu Theater is a soulless, big cavern with shitty acoustics. Lousy place for anything but auto or boat shows. Town Hall Seattle on First Hill, 8th and Seneca, seats about 850, for future gatherings.
I look forward to seeing Derek measure out the space on the recital hall stage for Zduriencik’s bed.
Ding ding! Ding ding!
We should just get the opera house. Great acoustics, wouldn’t even need a mike on stage.
Opera and baseball have a lot in common. No, really.
Missed out again. I’m gonna start lining up now for the next event. Even though I’m shut out, I’m very proud to be a part of such a dedicated fan base. Go M’s!
Yogi Berra agrees. It ain’t over until the fat lady sings.
I think Zduriencik just traded the fat lady for a board game.
ahhhhh.
Given that I was out of the country and out of reach of internet access, no way could I sign up in time the first time but I’m so glad you found a way to increase the size of the venue and let me in. See you on the 9th!
BTW, I already got my ticket in the mail from the first sign-up. BPT seems to run a tight ship (they also responded within an hour to an email inquiry I had regarding my order).
Oh, that explains why it’s so expensive. On the plus side, we can return our shoes after wearing them once to this event.
Town Hall would be a good venue for a future event with even more seats if the price is right. Though at the rate things are going, the entire 2000 seat Benaroya may not be enough next time around.
Any thoughts on hosting an event in New Zealand
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See ya’ll there!
Good, but this mixes up Yogi Berra with a different sports figure — one who has a Seattle connection. Dick Motta did not coin the phrase (some DJ in San Antonio apparently did), but during the epic seven-game 1978 NBA Finals between his Washington Bullets and the Seattle Sonics, Motta famously quoted the DJ and said “The opera ain’t over ’til the fat lady sings”, and the phrase instantly went viral, as they would have said had the Web existed then.
The Yogi-ism, famous in its own right, is “It ain’t over ’til it’s over”.
P.S. I’ll be out of town and can’t attend, but I agree with joser (JoseR?) that submitting questions in advance may be the way to go. Unless you can erect public microphones that people can line up at. It’s a lot of people to try to cover with handheld microphones, plus I still have a bad memory of the August meeting where the one idiot shouted out his question instead of waiting for Dave to arrive with his mike (plus it was a stupid question to boot).
…”Though at the rate things are going, the entire 2000 seat Benaroya may not be enough next time around.”
True, true, but…. I kinda miss the gatherings where we were excited because 30 people (!) showed up at Piecora’s (or Hale’s), and the beers afterwards at Elysian. Actually, that part can still happen….
ummm. pizza.
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Dammit. The only two days in the past year I haven’t checked the site are the days that the tickets go on sale. Maybe a little warning next time? 🙂
Thanks very much for going to the trouble to get a bigger place. I appreciate it … even though I missed out once again. 🙁
I missed out on tickets as well… can I start a rallying cry for moving this to the Moore Theatre? Historic, intimate, yet still seats a couple thousand… Another thought is Mccaw hall at the Seattle center (the Nutcracker should be done by the 9th)… But after the first batch of tickets sold out… its kind of disheartening to see I missed out on the second… I was the first to post that we got Cliff Lee, so that should count for something 🙂
So now that it’s sold out can we set the betting line for the number of bottles of water that Carmen will drink this year? If we set the OVER/UNDER line at 6, I’ll take OVER!!
Is there any other major league team for which there would be a sell out of 540(!) tickets in just a couple of hours to hear some front office folks talk?
If he starts drinking that much water again, I’m driving him to the hospital. It was a kidney stone, last time.
I am looking forward to my first, in-person USSM/LL event. It’s been a long time coming for me. Hurrah.