This lobby is about to get really crowded

Every semester, theater nerds and musicians alike count down to one fateful hour: 1 pm on the first Friday of classes, when the Columbia student Ticket and Information Center (affectionately abbreviated “the TIC”) opens its doors. This office sells discounted tickets to a vast number of arts performances in NYC throughout the semester; although all of the events have been listed on the TIC website for several weeks now, all of the most desirable tickets don’t go on sale until 1 pm today.

A line is probably already forming outside the office, in the Lerner lobby just inside the campus entrance. You could get in it now and have a decent chance of securing tickets for the show you want. Or you could take advantage of the TIC’s site: load all of the events you want now, refresh as soon as it hits 1 pm, and fill in your credit card information as fast as you can.

Some of the most notable performances the TIC offers this semester include Dear Evan Hansen (on Wednesday 9/27, Thursday 10/19, Tuesday 11/14, and Thursday 11/16) Come From Away (on Wednesday 10/4 and Wednesday 11/8 ), Kinky Boots (on Tuesday 10/24), the NY Philharmonic’s performances of Bernstein & Rhapsody in Blue (Thursday 11/2) and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (Wednesday 12/6), and Swan Lake by the NYC Ballet (Friday 9/29).

Lerner (the place to be?) via Beyond My Ken