From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V10 #128 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Saturday, July 2 2005 Volume 10 : Number 128 Today's Subjects: ----------------- chicago venue information [wojizzle forizzle ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 16:08:33 -0400 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: chicago venue information many thanks to fastrada for information about the pavilion at millenium park! hopefully this will be of some help to those buying tickets there seeing as the seating chart she references isn't very useful... woj - ----- Forwarded message from fastrada ----- since there doesn't appear to be any useful seating chart online for the millennium park pritzker pavilion, i took a walk through the venue yesterday to check out the setup. below are the notes i was able to take before security started giving me funny looks. i did find a visual online: http://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/stage/seats.asp. it doesn't show seat or section numbering though, and the seating designations on that site are for a subscription festival -- i don't think it has anything to do with this show. * the pavilion has a front section (100's) and a back section (200's). the 100's end with row z (i assume the first row is a, i did not go all the way to the front). the 200's are rows aa-tt. * going across from house left to house right, the sections go from 101 to 106 (there appears to be no section 104) and 201 to 206. it looks like sections 101 and 106 are very far to the side and might have limited view. however, the far side sections in the 200's, 201 and 206, look like they are not quite as angled and it seemed that the view from there might be ok. * seat numbering looks like it goes from left to right on the right side of the house, and right to left on the left side of the house. (so the seat on either side of the center aisle is seat 1.) i'm not sure about the seat numbering in the front center section -- i couldn't get down there and as there's no center aisle in that section i don't know if the numbering would be different. * there is a VERY large raised and covered soundboard area in the rear center of the 100's section. (that's the white square in the middle of the chart i linked to). it looked as though this would block the view in some of the center back sections (203 and 204) assuming that it's going to be there for the show and doesn't retract or anything. * there is a lawn, but it isn't sloped at all so it might be hard to see from there. however, the sound there is supposed to be excellent. please note that i have not actually seen a show here and these are just my best guesses as to what might be good or bad seats. so please do not hold me liable if you take the above statements as gospel and it turns out that your seats are crap. :) - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V10 #128 **************************************