Theatre is the CF behaviour or would I be?

[Zeze247]

Want to take dd to the theatre only two seats left are seats 1&4 in a row so looks like someone has purposefully booked the seats knowing they’ll get extra space AIBU to book the seats and hope they’ll let me and dd sit together.

Sorry it’s not 1&4 but here’s the images to show what I mean.

As someone who works in theatre while many online box office systems won't allow people to leave single seats some do (ours does, in fact, because we don't have even numbers of seats in all rows). But even if they don't allow single seats to be booked online, there is nothing to stop people ringing up or calling in in person to book seats and if someone wants just one seat, the theatre isn't going to say "sorry, I can't sell you a seat because that will leave a single one left".

I've had this at our theatre where people ring up and book an extra seat in the same row now that a friend wants to come with the original group and they plan on asking other people to move so they can sit together. I think it's cheeky fuckery. If it's a theatre I know well, I know places I prefer to sit and will book accordingly.

You can’t expect them to move so either you go with the idea of sitting apart, or book another day or call the theatre box office direct to see if there any house seats being held back on the production that you could buy.

I used to go the theatre a lot on my own when I lived in London