Rush Tickets

Dear Diary:

I was eager to see “The Lehman Trilogy” at the Park Avenue Armory, but I knew the only way to see one of the sold-out performances would be to line up for the rush tickets that went on sale at noon each day.

I arrived at 67th Street and Park Avenue one morning at 7. One person was already there. Person No. 3 arrived at 8:45. The line grew quickly after that.

At around 9 a.m., some armory employees brought out a bench, so at least we could sit. There were rumors that only 20 tickets were available and that each person who was waiting would be limited to two. A box-office employee eventually appeared and said that was not true. She didn’t say what was true.

People kept coming to the front of the line to ask, “What time did you get here?”

“Six o’clock,” my early bird friend would answer.