How to Pick the Best Seats at Oh, Mary! On Broadway

If you're looking to buy tickets to Broadway's smash hit comedy Oh, Mary! at the Lyceum Theatre and want to make sure you get the right seats, look no further! We've got all the tea as people who have seen the show from the orchestra and the mezzanine.

Here's the good news—If you're used to the giant touring theatres more common outside of New York, you might be shocked at just how small most Broadway theatres are. The Lyceum is one of Broadway's more intimate houses, at just 922 seats. The house contains an orchestra section, a mezzanine, and a balcony. Yes it's three levels but that also means you'll never be terribly far from the stage no matter where you sit.

The other good news is that Oh, Mary! is a non-musical play with a relatively small cast. You don't need to worry about sitting too close and missing big stage pictures or entire chorus lines of high-stepping dancers. The play's set also has most of the action taking place downstage center, on the forward-most part of the stage, making sightlines for the entire audience pretty clear. The further back and the further to the side actors are on stage, the more seats at the extreme sides of theatres might not be able to see certain portions of the show.

Oh, Mary!'s ticket seller, Telecharge, does list a small group of seats as having obstructed stage views, namely the extreme sides of the first 11 rows of the orchestra (or ground level) seats and the extreme sides of the first four rows of the mezzanine. The balcony also counts its first row as obstructed view because of a safety rail so shorter folks might want to consider another seat.

But frankly, because of how Oh, Mary! is staged, none of those obstructed views are too terrible. The show sells those seats at a discount, so if you're willing to put up with not having a full view for brief portions of the play, they're a great way to see a hit play for less. Most of the action of Oh, Mary! happens centerstage anyways, which you'll be able to fully see. All the obstructed view seats should be reasonably fine—but if we had to pick the cheapest seats with the best sight lines, we'd recommend getting seats on the right side of the house due to some early scenes with Mary lingering on the extreme left side of the stage.

Beyond that consideration, we don't think you should worry too much about where you're sitting, because you're in the theatre for a hilarious good time. We've seen the show from the orchestra, and we've seen the show from the mezzanine, and found it equally hilarious from both vantage points. Being a comedy, being closer to the stage might make you feel closer to the action and physical antics, but you absolutely should not be concerned about sitting further back. Oh, Mary!'s zany laughs more than reach every seat of the Lyceum. And, of course, always remember that a seat even in the "far back" of a theatre like the Lyceum still feel pretty close to the stage compared to theatres outside of New York!

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