I waited 45 years to see Barbra perform. I was never able to travel or afford a ticket while raising 4 children. Finally, I got my chance a couple of years ago in Fort Lauderdale. There were only really expensive tickets or nose-bleed seats left but I had promised myself that if she ever performed live again, I would be there. I bought 2 tickets for $1500, every penny I had, and waited for the big night. The hotel we stayed in gave us directions to the wrong venue. We had to fight our way through heavy traffic and arrived 25 minutes before the show began running and panting all the way. As we ran down the stairway to the floor, an usher took my tickets, and after checking the location said, "We have a little problem". My heart started to race and I thought I would pass out. Could I have been sold forged tickets by ticketmaster? She asked us to follow her to a desk that had been set up and explained that since Barbra was recording a CD that evening our seats had to be removed to make room for the equipment. Not a good thing to say to a life-long fan who had a heart attack a few years ago. I felt my heart beating in my ears and I started to shake when, with way too long of a pause, I was told they would accommodate us in another section that was equal to what we had paid for.
Of course, the concert I had waited a lifetime for was worth every penny, a traffic jam, and a cardiac spasm.
Marianne Reilly