The rest of the Mane Six agreed with Rarity's suggestion, and so they decided to go to Manehattan Broadway. Manehattan Broadway was the name of a theatre, and as was said before, it used to be owned by the Manehattan Publishing Company. They had long since been split into two companies, even before Flim and Flam had bought the publishing company to turn it into the New Manehattan Publishing Company, but the name had still stuck.
After looking at the posters outside the theatre, they saw that there was still time to make it to the show – “Avenue Horseshoe.” It was a musical where most of the characters were puppets. “That sounds like fun!” Pinkie Pie said.
“Six tickets to Avenue Horseshoe,” Twilight said. She teleported the money from her castle to give to the ticket pony, but realized she was three bits short. “Uh…anypony have three bits?” she asked.
“Sure thing,” Applejack said, and took three bits out from under her hat.
“Alright, six tickets to Avenue Horseshoe,” Twilight said. She held the money out to the ticket pony.
“Sorry, it’s sold out,” the ticket pony said.
“Nooo!” Pinkie Pie said. She had really wanted to see the puppet show.
“Yeah, a whole bunch of dragons came and bought the place out,” the ticket pony said. “It’s a full house.”
“Well, I guess we should just go home, then,” Twilight said. They all turned to leave.
“Wait!” the ticket pony said. “I just realized that I made a mistake. There are actually five seats left.”
“Only five?” Rainbow Dash said.” But there are six of us!”
“Sorry, that’s it,” the ticket pony said.
“Can’t you let one of us sit in the aisle or something?” Fluttershy said. “The theatre back in Ponyville lets my animal friends do that sometimes.”
“No, that would be a fire code violation,” the ticket pony said. “Sorry!” Fluttershy’s face fell. “Also, I’m going to have to report that the Ponyville theatre is breaking the fire code.” Fluttershy’s face fell even more.
“So what should we do?” Rarity asked. “Five of us could go, but the sixth would have to be left out.”
“Oh, you girls can go without me,” Twilight said. “After all, I made you all waste your nights to come here for no reason. The least I can do is let you have a good time.”
“Are you sure?” Applejack asked.
“Yeah, it’s fine,” Twilight said. “Have fun!”
“Well, if you’re sure…thank you!” Pinkie Pie said. She gave Twilight a hug, and they all bought their tickets. Twilight tried to pay for them herself like she was going to do before, but they insisted on paying their own way. Applejack did take her three bits back, though.