People will do crazy things when they’re in love … with an iconic, gospel-backed movie musical. 4evrmalone reports from the Public Theater's Hercules ticket lottery
I did not see this. Photo: Joan Marcus “We get off at 81st Street, right?” a woman who has just boarded my C train in Brooklyn on Monday night asks another woman. 81st street is, coincidentally, where I’m headed. I take one look at her and quickly decide that she and I are probably going to the same place. She’s wearing a thin wreath of pink and white plastic flowers, with ribbons trailing down her neck and a top draped off her shoulders. It’s Greco-Roman via Anthropologie.
So I, along with hundreds of other folks, lined up just to watch him flex. When I arrived at 6 p.m., there was a crowd of 200 or so people already milling about the lawns outside the Delacorte. I put my name in and started chatting. A man named Greg wearing a “Camp Half Blood” T-shirt — the overlap between Hercules and Percy Jackson fandoms seems quite logical — tells me he’s put his name in each night so far, and will be back every time for the rest of the run.
There are roughly 800 people gathered in the park, waiting with bated breath to hear their number called. People will do crazy things when they’re in love … with an iconic, gospel-backed movie musical. Over the course of the night — I lost count of exactly how many as the lottery went on for nearly an hour — the megaphone man gives away several hundred tickets. Which means my odds of winning while standing outside are likely better than they were online.
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