Have a Seat, Baby

The Pantages Theater gets a thumbs down. If you go to that theater holding a 6-month-old, sleeping infant, you cannot enter. They send you back to the box office to buy another seat for the infant.

We were there with our three children to see “Peter Pan,” having already bought five seats at $37.50 each, which the Pantages would not exchange. Rather than disappoint the children and waste a lot of money, we had to buy the unusable seat.

I asked why they would do this to patrons. They said “for insurance purposes.” None of the staff could explain what this means.

Insurance purposes or not, an infant must be held on someone’s lap and is far too young to be a member of the audience. We wasted money on an empty seat at the Pantages.

STEPHEN TESSLER

Arcadia