My
sister Valerie was with me again for this show. She and I had gone to the Styx/REO
Speedwagon show in Gilford, NH the night before. Tickets to the Gilford show had
gone on sale way back in March, and Valerie planned to come up and visit me and
stay through the weekend. Good thing, because in late June, this show turned up
on the tour schedule for the very next night, and we added it on to our schedule
too! One night in New Hampshire, next night in Connecticut - totally
workable for the serious Styx fanatic!
We had gotten front row for the Gilford show, but we didn't count on being that lucky for this show. The seating in front of the stage at Foxwoods is table seating, not rows of chairs, and they use what they call "maitre d'" seating to decide who sits where. Basically this means you buy a ticket to sit at some table somewhere, and when they open the doors, someone leads you to a table like at a restaurant, so you have no idea in advance where you will be sitting. Also, the best tables are reserved for VIP guests of the casino.
We were told that the seating might be partially first come first served - that if you were at the beginning of the line, you might get the best of what seating was available for the general riff raff. Just in case, we planned to get there early and hope for the best, but we were prepared to end up further back. So we'd see the show from a different perspective - you can't get front row every time, after all.