Ticket Information
When: Nov. 13
Time: 7 a.m.
Where: John R. Emens Box Office
Cost: Free
Students have priority for tickets until Nov. 13 at noon. Tickets will be available for faculty/staff Nov. 13 at noon, and remaining tickets are available to the public on Nov. 16.
The first group of students started camping out for tickets to see David Letterman at 10 p.m. Nov. 11, a day and a half before tickets will even be available.
Letterman, one of Ball State’s most recognized alumni, is returning to campus Nov. 30 to host a discussion with filmmakers Spike Jonze and Bennett Miller. Tickets will be available starting 7 a.m. Nov. 13, and are free of charge.
Two air mattresses, twenty blankets and nine friends led to the spur-of-the-moment decision while at Greek’s Pizza the evening of Nov. 11.
“We were in a wallyball team together for Dance Marathon’s Miracle Week and all freaking out about it and when we were at Greek’s getting a team dinner we were like ‘Let’s do it,’” said Jenny Alvaro, a junior journalism graphics major. “We did it and now we’re first in line and gonna get front row. All my friends are going to be jealous.”
While only three of the group members slept outside the first night, they established a rule for the night before the sale.
“We have shifts but we’re all sleeping here tonight because if you don’t sleep here you don’t get a ticket,” Alvaro said. “I’ve never camped out before. There’s a first time for everything in college.”
Reporter Jenna Liston talked with some of the students camping out and Kristi Chambers, assistant director of Marketing and Communication for Emens Auditorium, about how excited they were to see David Letterman in just two and a half weeks.
Letterman hosted “Late Night with David Letterman” and “The Late Show” for thirty-three years, and retired this past May. Catherine Burgess, a sophomore public relations major, used to watch Letterman’s show with her parents.
“I freaked out [when] I got the email and immediately posted to Twitter ‘Who wants to camp out with me?’ and my friend Jonah replied and started texting all of our friends,” Burgess said.
When junior sport administration major Jacob Miller heard Letterman was coming back from his roommate, he “was going crazy and was really excited.”
“I always knew that he tried to come back to Ball State every four years so I knew this would be my only chance to see him, seeing as I’m a junior,” Miller said.
Kelly Weyer, a junior interior design major, is rotating in three-hour shifts with her six roommates. Weyer said her group is excited to get tickets because seeing David Letterman is on their Ball State bucket list.
“I just think [Letterman] is a really awesome icon for Ball State and a good representation of the education that Ball State gives,” Weyer said.
Weyer said she doesn't know much about Spike Jonze and Bennett Miller, the two film directors who will accompany Letterman on his visit. While it is “a little chilly” outside, Weyer said she’s still happy to stand in line to see Letterman.
“I’ve never camped out before, so this is something new for me, but it’s kinda exciting,” Weyer said. “Everyone just walks by and is wondering what you’re doing [outside].”
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