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Sunday Aug 6, 2023 #
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We attended the Pink Martini / Philadelphia Philharmonic concert Friday evening. Glorious performance.
But the claim of handicap accessible by the Saratoga Performing Arts Center is preposterous. Yes, a jitney will carry you fromParking to the apron around the covered seating area, but then you are on your own to walk down a cement aisle of about 30% pitch, in our case for about 40’, descending the equivalent of one building story. No railing. We had no idea we would be confronted by such a steep slope. The climb back up after the totally wiped us out.
We had searched when buying tickets for wheelchair “seats “ like Tanglewood offers it none seemed to exist.
To reach a restroom at intermission, your choices are to descend 30 steps to the left side of the stage basement or climb steep ramps through the uncovered ( rain soaked ) lawn area ( all mud, little grass due to a prior rock concert and the monsoon) and hike 50 yards .
It was so traumatic for us. Susan can barely shuffle along a flat parking lot but can cope, with my arm, up and down carpeted aisles in every civilized theater we’ve ever visited .
Unless SPAC offers us a satisfactory solution (they haven’t returned my call yet), we plan to forfeit our tickets for this coming Friday’s Rachmaninov concert.
But the claim of handicap accessible by the Saratoga Performing Arts Center is preposterous. Yes, a jitney will carry you fromParking to the apron around the covered seating area, but then you are on your own to walk down a cement aisle of about 30% pitch, in our case for about 40’, descending the equivalent of one building story. No railing. We had no idea we would be confronted by such a steep slope. The climb back up after the totally wiped us out.
We had searched when buying tickets for wheelchair “seats “ like Tanglewood offers it none seemed to exist.
To reach a restroom at intermission, your choices are to descend 30 steps to the left side of the stage basement or climb steep ramps through the uncovered ( rain soaked ) lawn area ( all mud, little grass due to a prior rock concert and the monsoon) and hike 50 yards .
It was so traumatic for us. Susan can barely shuffle along a flat parking lot but can cope, with my arm, up and down carpeted aisles in every civilized theater we’ve ever visited .
Unless SPAC offers us a satisfactory solution (they haven’t returned my call yet), we plan to forfeit our tickets for this coming Friday’s Rachmaninov concert.