I think that in fact what is going on is like your subscription, except that they're *not* doing the thing where they move us to better seats each year, so what we have dates from back when the ART was a lot more popular. Or, perhaps that Jerry has not been specifically asking for better seats the way you have, but I find it somewhat troubling that the default answer is assumed to be "No, I don't want the better ones".

Most of the shows are in the Loeb Mainstage, in which our seats do appear to be about a row behind everyone else (to the extent that I started being bothered by this earlier in the season), and the last Zero Arrow show was at round tables on the floor like a nightclub, so who could tell what the good seats were? :)