Join the WICKED Ballot For Front Row Viewing

Join the WICKED Ballot For Front Row Viewing

WICKED is whipping critics and audiences into a frenzy at Auckland’s Civic and demand for tickets is intense. But some are kept unsold until just before every performance.

A limited number of front row seats – specially priced at $35 per person – are held in reserve for the WICKED Ballot. Fans who arrive at The Civic box office two and a half hours ahead of every performance can enter the ballot. Their names are collected and placed in a green barrel. The winners are drawn half an hour later in The Civic foyer and their names called. Winners must be at the draw and have valid photo ID or they forfeit their tickets. The winning tickets cost them just $35 and they can buy two, for themselves and a friend. (The tickets must not be sold to a third party.) Cash only sales.

“The Ballot is a great way for people to see WICKED if for some reason they can’t book ahead,” says WICKED’s Co-Producer John Frost. “They may be visitors from out of town or overseas and in Auckland for just a day or two, and haven’t booked ahead. Tourists are always among the ballot entries at The Civic’s box office.

“Students and young people love the idea of the Ballot. On impulse they turn up at the box office hoping to buy seats and find there’s the chance of getting front row seats at the next performance. And if their names aren’t drawn they can come back as often as they like. Eventually, they calculate, they’ll get in and have their WICKED way!”

Winner of over 50 major awards including the Grammy Award and three Tony Awards, WICKED is the untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.
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