July 28: Dodge Theatre

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Rickypt

Hey Phoenix--can you tell me what you don't like about Dodge Theater? I would like to go to this show but curious about your concerns.

ok, well. The.thing is. I've been to three diferent concerts at the Doge theater. each time i had the "reasonably priced seats" (not even the cheap seats) and each time it was in a reletively diferent section. And each time it was horrible. there were no screens, and it was llike watching a flea. doge theater unlike america west arena (where she has had all of the Stevie nicks and friends) or the Glendale arena (where she appeared with tom petty) the seats do not go up. so that you can look down on the preformer. a la the coleseum in rome.
Doge theater is constructed like a door stop. it gradually slants away and away and away, and away then up, up and away. so that if you are on either of the sides of the door stop, u can not see the preformer in the center of the stage. if you are not on the "floor" in the center, u are up up and far away. those seats seemed to me to be VERY close together (as Ive said in other threads like seats on a plane in coach. Also, in the seats that are not on the floor, if you stand up, u are blocking the people in front of you, because of the way the theater is constructed.
(the green dotts are the seats ive sat in. Each time I was watching the people in yellow have the time of their lives, while i was kikin it with the casual fans. The damn lady in front of me talked about her cat the WOLE TIME! The people behind me were like "could u sit down" im only 5'7 its not like i was towering over anyone. AND because the rows were so close together, everytime Mr. weak bladder went to the bathroom, the whole row had to stand up and back! In the middle of the Gold dust woman Spinning and Screaming, and lights, at the peak of the song, hes like "wellp i guess im gonna go to the bathroom now" THEN the other guy next to him During the middle of leather and lace was like "i guess I'll cheack out what they got at the concessions" I was royaly pissed, it was like um, excuse me, are the rock LEGENDS in concert interfearing with ur hankerin for a freekin pretzel!!! but, All I could do was stand up and scoot back to let him through, while i looked down at the people in section 4 dancing. Ohh how I hate doge theater. I really whish it was at glendale arena where every seat is a good one, or at america west, or whatever its called now, where the seats are decent. But this time, Im gonna get Hella goood seats, my sister saw a concert at doge theater, and loved it!............but she was in the second row.