# Hamilton on stage! It'll cost you. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 22, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404 "2017-08-22T21:29:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/1 "2017-08-22T21:29:57Z")
So this is more of a HEAVY SIGH than a rant. Recently the show Hamilton has opened with a touring company in Los Angeles. I never made it happen to travel to New York to see the original with Lin-Manuel Miranda, or his replacement. I would love to see the show, really really love to see it. But the ticket prices…:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: For weekend performances, in decent seats, top end tickets are pricing in around $1,500 - $2,000 each. For Fuck Sake Ok ok, I get that it’s the “hottest ticket in town!” I get that there is the cheap ticket lottery for performances where you can stand around with 1,000 other hopefuls in the hot sun hoping for a last minute ticket. Oh, sorry, try again tomorrow? (not gonna happen) But Jeezus on a stick, if I do end up getting to see it, it’ll be me, and my spouse, and gotta take the kids. And honey bunny ain’t gonna go for the back row of the balcony. So even at say $800 a ticket we’re looking at ~$2,500. That’s OK, we’ll put off paying for tuition, or getting that used car. 'Cause we’ll be seeing Hamilton! Y’know with all that diversity casting! Who ARE all these hundreds of millionaires filling the seats every show? Fuuh-uh-uuh-uck! Grmmbl grmmbl ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/2 "2017-08-22T21:32:04Z")
It shouldn’t cost more than $10. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/3 "2017-08-22T21:36:43Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It shouldn’t cost more than $10. > > 😉 There is something to that, I can’t quite put my finger on it…😃 ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/4 "2017-08-22T21:41:29Z")
Hamilton is a scam. It’s just a vehicle for rich progressives and Hollywood liberals to virtue signal. Are they then going to give $2000 to a charity or a homeless or womans shelter? No. They’re going to ring up their rich liberal friends and brag about how they spent $2000 to POC in a play. And how awesome and what a good liberal they are for doing so. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/5 "2017-08-22T21:43:42Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Hamilton is a scam. It’s just a vehicle for rich progressives and Hollywood liberals to virtue signal. > > Are they then going to give $2000 to a charity or a homeless or womans shelter? No. They’re going to ring up their rich liberal friends and brag about how they spent $2000 to POC in a play. And how awesome and what a good liberal they are for doing so. Because it it literally impossible to do both and we know for certain that they don’t do both. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/6 "2017-08-22T21:49:35Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Hamilton is a scam. It’s just a vehicle for rich progressives and Hollywood liberals to virtue signal. It’s a scam? You mean _it’s not really a play?_ :eek: > [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Are they then going to give $2000 to a charity or a homeless or womans shelter? No. They’re going to ring up their rich liberal friends and brag about how they spent $2000 to POC in a play. And how awesome and what a good liberal they are for doing so. Based on this statement, I’m going to assume you’ve never spent so much as five dollars on yourself, **ever**. Because that’s five dollars that could have gone to the poor, right? ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/7 "2017-08-22T21:50:24Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Hamilton is a scam. It’s just a vehicle for rich progressives and Hollywood liberals to virtue signal. > > Are they then going to give $2000 to a charity or a homeless or womans shelter? No. They’re going to ring up their rich liberal friends and brag about how they spent $2000 to POC in a play. And how awesome and what a good liberal they are for doing so. You say that like it’s a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/8 "2017-08-22T21:53:05Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > I get that there is the cheap ticket lottery for performances where you can stand around with 1,000 other hopefuls in the hot sun hoping for a last minute ticket. They have this thing called the internet nowadays: > **[How to Buy | Broadway in Hollywood](https://www.broadwayinhollywood.com/buy/how-to-buy)** > > Buy individual tickets for shows, a Season Package, or group bundles. Your tickets to the best of Broadway are just a click away. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/9 "2017-08-22T21:55:17Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Hamilton is a scam. It’s just a vehicle for rich progressives and Hollywood liberals to virtue signal. > > Are they then going to give $2000 to a charity or a homeless or womans shelter? No. They’re going to ring up their rich liberal friends and brag about how they spent $2000 to POC in a play. And how awesome and what a good liberal they are for doing so. Liberals are the worst. They should all be shot out of a cannon and set on fire and fed to a pack of ravenous wolves and then put under house arrest in a flophouse motel in rural Nebraska with no Wi-Fi. I’m so glad we have President Trump now because he’s a bona fide genius unlike Obama who had an IQ of 24 and could only speak in grunts and hiccups. Trump is going to build the wall and bring jobs back and bomb us into world peace and best of all exterminate all the evil progressives and liberals before Christmas because #MAGA. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/10 "2017-08-22T21:58:55Z")
I don’t have as much a problem with the prices as much as there’s no Steven Seagal in it. Which would’ve made _Hamilton_ more worthwhile. More imposing. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/11 "2017-08-22T22:03:31Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > They have this thing called the internet nowadays: > [How to Buy | Broadway in Hollywood](https://www.hollywoodpantages.com/lottery) Now see, that’s all very charming of you, and as Chris Hardwick would say, “Points!” But really, this whole lottery falderol just ain’t gonna work in my life. So I piss into that pot every week until December, when the show closes? Then I still don’t see the show. And my family doesn’t get the nice night out and dinner and all that. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/12 "2017-08-22T22:07:37Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Hamilton is a scam. It’s just a vehicle for rich progressives and Hollywood liberals to virtue signal. > > Are they then going to give $2000 to a charity or a homeless or womans shelter? No. They’re going to ring up their rich liberal friends and brag about how they spent $2000 to POC in a play. And how awesome and what a good liberal they are for doing so. [How the Cast of Hamilton Made Philanthropy Their Mission](http://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/news/a6439/hamilton-cast-gives-back/) > [@](#): > > But perhaps what’s most exceptional about the musical is that its cast and crew have used the show as a vehicle for giving back. They hope to make Hamilton transformative not just for Broadway and the larger world of theater, but for children across the New York City. > > Philanthropy is part of the DNA of the musical itself. Hamilton ends not with the duel or the death of its namesake and grief of his family, but with each actor’s tribute to the contribution their character made—or hoped to make—to society. > > One of the show’s most profound philanthropic efforts began with Phillipa Soo, who plays Eliza Schuyler Hamilton. “We have a show that talks of revolution and the building of our country, and I think it reminds us constantly that there’s a lot of work to be done,” she says. “But there’s a lot of room to give back.” > > In the final number of the show, Soo as Eliza steps forward and sings the lines that could coax tears out of a statue. > > ``` > Can I show you what I'm proudest of? I established the first private orphanage in New York City I help to raise hundreds of children I get to see them growing up > > ``` > > It is that very New York City orphanage, now an organization known as Graham Windham, that is so frequently on the receiving end of the cast’s generosity. Assisting more than 4,000 of the city’s children, Graham Windham provides foster care, counseling, and adoption services in addition to serving as a free-standing therapeutic school. > > The show’s creator, Lin Manuel Miranda, and the cast have also worked to open the usually narrow world of Broadway to a new audience. Hamilton hosts a series of matinees for 11th grade public school students, where the kids pay just $10, and perform original raps and spoken word pieces for the cast before the start of the show. For many, it is their first time in a Broadway theater. > > “When we’re all said and done we’ll have done the show for 20,000 11th graders, which is a considerable portion of the 11th graders in this city,” says Odom. The program, which is a partnership between the Rockefeller Foundation, New York City’s public school system, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, will continue with the show as it tours around the country. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/13 "2017-08-22T22:08:54Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Hamilton is a scam. It’s just a vehicle for rich progressives and Hollywood liberals to virtue signal. > > Are they then going to give $2000 to a charity or a homeless or womans shelter? No. They’re going to ring up their rich liberal friends and brag about how they spent $2000 to POC in a play. And how awesome and what a good liberal they are for doing so. I got 4 tickets at the presale (AmEx) for about $200 per seat. I honestly had no idea it was a “liberal” thing. Hamilton was no liberal, as I recall (but I haven’t seen the play yet). That leaves me $1,800 per seat to donate to a charity. Done and done. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/14 "2017-08-22T22:12:24Z")
Those are Ticketmaster resale tickets. The tickets went on sale in \*\*April \*\*and the price range was $85-$195 with premium seats at $650. (Did you really think they would still have cheap tickets left 4 months after they went on sale?) Scalpers bought up lots of those then and are now trying to resell them for $$$. That doesn’t mean they will actually go for thousands, they may very well end up being unsold. They also may get priced lower as it gets closer to showtime. I just looked on Ticketmaster and saw one center Orchestra for tonight for $400. Have you also looked on [StubHub](https://www.stubhub.com/hamilton-los-angeles-tickets/performer/1509784/)? They have many tickets available starting around $200. So your ire is really with scalpers, not with the show. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/15 "2017-08-22T22:15:49Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Those are Ticketmaster resale tickets. The tickets went on sale in \*\*April \*\*and the price range was $85-$195 with premium seats at $650. Scalpers bought up all of those then and are now trying to resell them for $$$. That doesn’t mean they will actually go for thousands, they may very well end up being unsold. They also may get priced lower as it gets closer to showtime. I just looked on Ticketmaster and saw one center Orchestra for tonight for $400. > > Have you also looked on [StubHub](https://www.stubhub.com/hamilton-los-angeles-tickets/performer/1509784/)? They have many tickets available starting around $200. > > So your ire is really with scalpers, not with the show. He’s actually a little Commie bitch who hates the free market. ---
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/16 "2017-08-22T22:25:02Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > He’s actually a little Commie bitch who hates the free market. Every rational and decent person hates scalpers. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/17 "2017-08-22T22:31:56Z")
This is the Dope. There’s literally nothing that \*someone \*won’t defend. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/18 "2017-08-22T22:32:06Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Those are Ticketmaster resale tickets. The tickets went on sale in \*\*April \*\*and the price range was $85-$195 with premium seats at $650. Really? When they went on sale for SF, I thought I heard they were going of $750 a pop. Maybe we just got more of the green stuff than those SoCal _bitches_!!! [Here you go](http://www.sfgate.com/performance/article/Face-value-Hamilton-tickets-for-sale-11020924.php). $186 gets you seat with an obstructed view. $800 for a decent seat. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/19 "2017-08-22T22:33:26Z")
On Saturday, December 30th of this year, tickets are $274 to $2574. So it’s possible to see it for much less than the top prices you quote. You say that “. . . honey bunny ain’t gonna go for the back row of the balcony . . .” Perhaps the problem then is that she has an inflated view of what you can afford. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/20 "2017-08-22T22:39:36Z")
Maybe you and “honey bunny” should rob a breakfast joint. Just beware of any brown leather wallet that has “bad mother fucker” embroidered on it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404.md?page=2)