# 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:** 2
**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, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/21 "2017-08-22T22:46:17Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > Every rational and decent person hates scalpers. Actually, I go to around 75 live music shows per year (not musical theater though) and I think scalpers should fry in hell. I wasn’t addressing that though. ---
**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, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/22 "2017-08-22T22:47:59Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Actually, I go to around 75 live music shows per year (not musical theater though) and I think scalpers should fry in hell. I wasn’t addressing that though. Guess I had a hard time parsing the target of your ire, then. My bad; sorry. ---
**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, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/23 "2017-08-22T22:50:20Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > Guess I had a hard time parsing the target of your ire, then. My bad; sorry. Probably my bad. I was pointing out **Drunky Smurf** ’s hypocrisy in making this a political issue. ---
**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, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/24 "2017-08-22T22:54:44Z")
Plus, anyone who’s anyone knows the best way to virtue signal is to NOT virtue signal. ---
**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, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/25 "2017-08-22T23:01:11Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Plus, anyone who’s anyone knows the best way to virtue signal is to NOT virtue signal. I thought the best way to virtue signal was to accuse others of virtue signaling. It signals that you yourself are too virtuous to virtue signal, after all. ---
**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, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/26 "2017-08-22T23:04:55Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > 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. Yup. I wasn’t paying attention to the Los Angeles production since I’m on the other side of the country and have already seen it in NYC, so I just checked the thread about it on BroadwayWorld and read people saying they got their tickets in April for $85. It also says this on Ticketmaster: > [@](#): > > Prices are subject to change > Regular Prices > Orchestra $195, $175, $125 > Mezzanine: $175, $125, $95, $85 > Premium: $650. > > Holiday Prices (Nov. 24-25 and Dec. 22-30): > Orchestra $225, $195, $175 > Mezzanine: $195, $175, $125, $95 > Premium: $750 ---
**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, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/27 "2017-08-22T23:20:01Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > I thought the best way to virtue signal was to accuse others of virtue signaling. It signals that you yourself are too virtuous to virtue signal, after all. It’s virtue signaling all the way down! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/28 "2017-08-23T02:51:22Z")
Anytime I hear anything from the show on the Sirius broadway channel I hate it so I get to save me lots of money. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/29 "2017-08-23T13:59:20Z")
I saw it, but I paid a lot less for it. It was great! As others have said, if you really want to see it there’s no reason to pay those extravagant prices. You can get in for $250 or so to most shows, though not the best seats. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/30 "2017-08-23T14:05:16Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > 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. You’ll be fine with the wallet, but if that bad mother fucker has a briefcase with him, let that go. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/31 "2017-08-23T16:29:13Z")
Many times I read this board and can never quite remember if I’m thinking of the right poster. For example, I know that there’s two really sarcastic posters. But how to tell them apart? Which is which? > [@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. Up there is the tedious one. > [@VinylTurnip](#): > > 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. And this is the funny one. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/32 "2017-08-23T19:43:25Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Probably my bad. I was pointing out **Drunky Smurf** ’s hypocrisy in making this a political issue. Drunky Smurf usually does a troll impersonation and then moves on to find another thread to shit on. Just ignore him. ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/33 "2017-08-23T19:49:42Z")
It’s just an outrage that Lin-Manuel himself hasn’t arranged $10 front-row seats (forty for the whole family!) for your whole entitled clan. You should send the kids by themselves. They have a chance to actually learn something about real values. Not those of their sire, the reincarnation of self-serving Burr (who actually claims in the show that he was the one who paid for the duel’s outcome - not the dead guy, his widow or seven half-orphaned children). ---
**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 23, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/34 "2017-08-23T21:04:48Z")
> [@HelenGawn](#): > > It’s just an outrage that Lin-Manuel himself hasn’t arranged $10 front-row seats (forty for the whole family!) for your whole entitled clan. > > You should send the kids by themselves. They have a chance to actually learn something about real values. Not those of their sire, the reincarnation of self-serving Burr (who actually claims in the show that he was the one who paid for the duel’s outcome - not the dead guy, his widow or seven half-orphaned children). Hey, looks like I made a new friend. Please enjoy your stay. Don’t mind the dog barking. He does that when someone is SHITTING ALL OVER MY FAMILY AND ME! ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/35 "2017-08-25T00:40:27Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Hey, looks like I made a new friend. Please enjoy your stay. Don’t mind the dog barking. He does that when someone is SHITTING ALL OVER MY FAMILY AND ME! My apologies. I had no intention of shitting over your family, who are innocent in this childish tirade. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/36 "2017-08-25T03:27:55Z")
I have tickets for Chicago - it wasn’t cheap (about $300 a ticket). But I’ve spent $100 or more on a touring company coming through Minneapolis. In fact, I also have tickets to In the Heights when it comes through St. Paul - at more than $100. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/37 "2017-08-25T13:57:29Z")
I’ll wait until it’s on Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/38 "2017-08-25T14:09:25Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > This is the Dope. There’s literally nothing that \*someone \*won’t defend. You say that like it’s a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/39 "2017-08-25T14:17:09Z")
Dang, I can go see a baseball game for 30 bucks. And, they got foot-long hot dogs. Pass. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404/40 "2017-08-25T14:21:39Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > I’ll wait until it’s on Netflix. If you aren’t a stage musical person, that’s a great option - or even, don’t bother. My husband goes to concerts. I don’t really get concerts - there are a few I’ve been to, but I’d never spend $200 on a concert ticket…not my thing at all. He’s flying over to Europe to see some band, I don’t even know which one … I’m going to Chicago to see Hamilton. It is a shame that the nature of some events makes seeing the live version a different experience (concerts, sports, plays), but in doing so that creates a limit on how much of it can be sold, which will impact the supply demand curve and put it out of reach for people who are really interested in it. Hamilton will have a long run, with a lot of tours over time. (Hey, I saw Rent on tour last year - there is a dated musical - but its still a profitable tour). A professional production will never be cheap to see, but this tour is going to be expensive and difficult to get tickets to - and it will be a hot ticket on Broadway for a long time (Wicked is still a hot ticket on Broadway). The next time its in town, Icarus will probably be able to get tickets at their face value - but that could be a few years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamilton-on-stage-itll-cost-you/794404.md?page=3)