The fans started standing online 17 hours before the box office opened for the release of 30 day seats for the first preview of Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet at London's Barbican Theatre on Wednesday night (Aug. 5). The first arrivals — two Italian women aged 18 and 19 who hail from Rome but are working in London for the summer — started the line at 3 PM the day before.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:13AM on August 6, 2015