Laura Brown Review of Comcast Theatre
The artists I saw here were great, but this venue ...
The artists I saw here were great, but this venue has some serious problems. The event I attended (Farm Aid) was clearly oversold by a wide margin. The parking, seating, bathrooms, walkways, and trash disposal all screamed that the attendance far exceeded the venue's intended capacity--everything was literally overflowing. The fact that the event was so clearly oversold made me feel really uneasy about the lack of accessible exits. I'm not really sure how so many people would be able to get out safely in an emergency. (And from another review posted here, it seems emergency medical situations here have not exactly been handled well in the past.) It was very difficult to make it through the crowd even to get to the bathrooms--people were shoving into each other, and a lot of people were stumbling drunk. Also, when I made it to the bathroom I actually saw a woman passed out drunk on the floor in one of the stalls, which seems in keeping with other reviewers' comments that this venue prioritizes selling as many of its vastly overpriced drinks ($15-20 each) as possible, instead of cutting people off when they're excessively drunk.
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