Okay, I expected Shakespeare’s Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch to sell well. I DID NOT expect it to sell out.
20,000+ people were in the queue at one point. That was when I knew that the Barbican had a situation without precedence on their hands.
A few of Benedict’s fans have been saying that everyone should have known it would sell out. I don’t agree.
Firstly, the tickets went on sale twelve months in advance for what is a three month run in one of London’s largest theatres. There is no way in hell that any sort of sales projection could come up with a complete sell out of all public tickets within a matter of hours.
Think about it. All tickets (membership AND public) were gone by the first day of public sales for an old, undoubtedly a classic, play that isn’t being staged for another TWELVE MONTHS.
You’d have to be bloody Nostradamus to see that coming!
margysmusings 
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