Welcome to Celebrity DongWatch 2008, where we at After The Gates give you the latest on the longest, er, where we talk about peen.
Just kidding. Maybe.
So I procured a Columbia student seat (thru CUArts) to see Equus (the play starring an oft-naked Daniel Radcliffe) last week, and I have to admit, I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to see…it. Which would be pretty damn disappointing, if you ask me. Imagine being in the same room as Harry Potter and his death stick and having a view of the back of some poor schmo’s head instead of, well, a different type of head.
But I was pleasantly surprised. The student seats (center mezzanine) weren’t bad at all. (They also had “on stage seating” which turned out to be those weird raised U-shaped things, nothing like the on stage seats at Spring Awakening.) I snapped a quick picture on my camera phone before the usher accused me of tomfoolery and I had to pretend that I was Dutch and had no idea what was going on.
The view from the Columbia student seats in the center mezzanine (I was next to a bunch of CU students who also thought the seats rocked)
So my verdict? The play is AWESOME, Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths are tremendous (in their roles, you pervs, although Griffiths is not the smallest dude on the planet), and if you’re wondering whether to shell out $100+ for orchestra seating or else suffer the $30ish student seats, opt for the student seats. The view isn’t bad at all.
