ABSTRACT
There is a superstition in theater about the opening-night customers. As we all know, some tickets are given away through various connections with the production. These are called “comps” or complementary tickets. Supposedly the first customer to be admitted into the auditorium must be a paying customer. This is said to ensure the financial success of the production. House managers have been known to refuse admittance to someone with a comp ticket prior to seating a paying customer first.
