The most impressive thing about the JASA was how organised the parking staff was, there was a good full house last night and parking seemed to flow quite freely. We found a space in the parking lot for a mere 5 dollars and just one level up brought us inside and down the hall from the auditorium. There is an amazing view of Calgary from this location and our cityscape twinkled in the night.
The ushers were extremely courteous and we got there right before the performance. But as beautiful as the interior is and as huge as JASA is, the seating was so small, I mean my elbows rested on the elbows of both my neighbours. Plus there wasn't much leg room and I am a shorter person. I couldn't imagine how tall people could sit and enjoy any performance in these seats.
My friend got leg cramps during the first half so during intermission we decided to stretch our legs and luckily we found an area on the lowest level lobby where there was a flat screen TV. Here were leather chairs and although we were in the auditorium we thought we could still hear and see the lecture from here, sit on comfortable loungers and stretch our legs.
One of the ushers put up the volume for us and we watched the rest of the lecture from the auditorium lobby. So all in all JASA is definitely not my first choice for viewing anything in Calgary. I much prefer the EPCOR centre.