Front Row at MIHARAYASUHIRO

So I (foolishly) get to the show 15 minutes early because I see people gathering outside of L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in St. Germain-des-Pres. They, like me, are made up of "Seat D" pass holders - read standing room only. We wait patiently outside in the freezing cold (about 25 with some wind) for a good 30 minutes. At 10:15 they start letting people in, but they just move the standing room people to another waiting area inside. As we all watch everyone go in, the crowd of now about 60 people with me got a little anxious that we wouldn't have room.

At 10:40 the finally let us in. It turns out 10 people in the back row of seats didn't show up so we got to sit there (worth the wait!). I spy a seat in the front row but don't dare to move up there as all the ushers are looking at me. The lights dim at 10:50 (mind you the invitation said 10am) and I jump up to that front row seat - I was not going to let it go. The ushers didn't seem to mind as they would rather have a filled seat by a random girl than an empty seat at all. Thus, that is how I got from the bottom of the seating chart to front row...I hope I have that kind of luck on Monday!