One thing that both Carolyn and I have always wanted to do is be on Saturday Night Live... but tickets are nearly impossible to get in advance. They have a lottery once a year and you don't get to pick the dates of the show you want to attend, so for out-of-towners, not ideal. The only other way to get tickets, is to line up and get stand-by tickets on Saturday morning at 7:00 am. There is no guarantee you will get into the show with these tickets. We thought it was worth trying!!
They pass out tickets at 7:00 am on Saturday morning. But we knew people started lining up the night before (we thought just the night before). We headed down at about midnight on Friday night. When we got there, we were amazed to see such a long line already!! Later we learned that there were people that had been in line since TUESDAY!! CRAZY!! We were about 115 and 116 in line. We were in for a long night, and didn't come prepared like some of the others (many had tents, lawn chairs, blow up mattresses, etc.)... so I dug some milk crates out of the garbage so we wouldn't have to sit on the ground all night.
It was very humid and the weather called for rain. We lucked out and didn't get rained on! There was a 24 hour pharmacy a block away where we went to get snacks. There was also a McDonald's about 5 blocks away - where we went to use the bathroom.
In line, we met some great people!! Right in front of us was two guys from Venezuela.
And in front of them, two gals from New York. We talked all night and became great friends before the sun came up the next morning!
Having such a great group of people to stand in line with, made the night fly by! By 7:00 am, we had to make a choice - we could either get stand-by tickets for the Dress Rehearsal or the Live show. All our friends chose the Live show - which were at numbers 70 and 71. The Dress Rehearsal numbers were only at 60 and 61... we didn't know which to pick! We asked the woman handing out tickets, "If you had to pick, which would you choose?" She said the Dress Rehearsal, so we did.
We had to come back at 7:00 pm that night and wait in line again. We did, and we barely made it into the rehearsal! They only sat a few people after us. We found out that our friends were the last ones into the Live show, so if we had picked those tickets, we wouldn't have made it in!! LUCKY!! It was truly amazing. We were seated on the front row of the balcony and got to see so many people! Alec Baldwin was the host and Steve Martin and Seth Rogen were both on the show as was the full SNL cast. What a great experience!!
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