Theatre tickets for seniors

A question about : Theatre tickets for seniors

I've just bought 2 tickets for Cats at the London Palladium. They didn't give an age for the senior tickets but as I am 60 I bought 1 for myself and paid full price for OH as he is only 57.

I am assuming senior means 60 or over as it seems to everywhere else. Does anyone know if they are likely to ask for proof of my age when we go (picking up tickets from box office on day of performance). I don't have a driving licence so it would have to be passport or birth certificate, neither of which I normally carry with me!

Best answers:

• I've never been asked; in fact, in the circumstances you describe (lack of age requirement) I got in the habit of asking for two 'concessions' and never had a problem.
• I also bought 2 tickets for Cats about a month ago , we are 62/63 and I assumed 65 would apply so paid the full price .
  What was the senior rate ? , we booked the stalls .
• If you are going to see Miss Saigon, there is announcement on their site, that Pensioners can purchase a ticket for Ј37.50. I phoned the day before the midweek matinee, and was given a seat in G row of the stalls, just off centre.
  During the interval, the lady in the seat next to mine, asked what I'd paid. She revealed the seats for her and her husband were classed as Premium seats and cost ..... Ј99.50 each!
  It was their Golden Wedding though, and the family had clubbed together. BTW, it's a brilliant production. I saw it the day after it opened in 1989 with Lea Salonga.
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• I always interpret "senior" or "concessions" as meaning me, because I am a woman past her 60th birthday. If I were a man - I would take it as 65th birthday onwards.
  As you can gather, I don't take any account of the fact that my State Pension Age got revised to be older than 60 (and I finally hit that revised SPA next year).
  The only time I've had anyone say "not you" to me on that so far has been when it comes to local authority evening classes (where you are expected to produce proof of being over your State Pension Age) and back in England I had that when I asked for a free buspass when I got to my 60th birthday.
  With those 2 exceptions, I am accepted as having "concessionary" rate as a "senior" and certainly I have always been granted a concessionary rate okay at the local theatre.
  If I could afford to pay the full rate then I wouldn't claim the concessionary rate, as I personally feel that those who can afford to pay full rate should do so and not get subsidised. But single/never had any concessions or anything for having children and right now on even-lower-than-low income and I do ask.
• I think "senior" concessions vary from place to place, but they must be applied equally to men and women. 60 or 65 seem to be the two standards, I've not heard of anywhere doing other ages. I really don't see why women should get concessions at a younger age than men, and individual lifestyle choices of marriage or no certainly shouldn't enter into it. The "subsidy" of concessions is borne by the retailer and is obviously worthwhile to them, a bit like group booking discounts.
• Saw Cats at the Palladium today , excellent