Not to be outdone by the The Metropolitan Opera, it seems the Carnegie Hall ticket website is down. Single tickets went on sale at 11 am this morning, so I assume the demand crashed their servers? I called “Carnegie Charge” to see what was up [What’s got two thumbs and is a hard-hitting journalist? THIS GUY.], but obviously the line has been busy all morning.
While I’m genuinely thrilled that the public-at-large is clamoring for tickets to Carnegie Hall, one wonders why they couldn’t, what’s the saying, “Make it work”?
As my friend and client who shall remain nameless pointed out, if radiohead.com could handle millions upon millions of album downloads in a single day, surely carnegiehall.org can handle single ticket web sales?
Update 9/2, 4:39pm – I just tried to buy tickets for Eric Owens’ not-to-be-missed recital (shameless, shameless!), and the site is up-and-running. “Carnegie Charge” is still busy, though.