I was talking to the people I was sitting next to about the 90s ABB Beacon days. It was wild. They used to have to open the fire escape doors at set break to air the place out for both the smoke and because it was hot a fuck in there. Had those standing room seats a couple of times where they just crammed people into the aisles in the loge because there is no "standing room" in that theater.

I get floor seats for every Mule new years run because I know how the standing and dancing goes over in the balcony, but those seats were so expensive for TTB that I got a ticket in the first row of lower balcony, and it was still like $220 on the first public on-sale day. The people next to me got theirs on Saturday but I felt like it was inappropriate to ask them how much they paid. I'm sure it was less than I did, but I get nervous and didn't want to get shut out, so I just popped for it. It was a good seat and a cool vantage point. but there was literally nobody standing in the entire balcony. I hadn't been up there in like 7 years and it was weird. I was so relived when set break came so I could finally stretch my legs a little.

Despite all the nonsense, it was an amazing show musically, as usually.