I’ve actually read the Ron Chernow biography that served as the basis for the musical, so I already know how it ends and therefore don’t have to go see it.
Spoiler alert: He dies in a duel with the Vice President.
You better be gettin’ laid for that date.
Sorry for the above. That was inappropriate.
I dunno. A blowjob at the absolute minimum doesn’t seem out of proportion.
Supply and demand. Market sets the prices.
Mike Pence!? :eek:
Of course that is how the real Hamilton would have liked it, besides the cheap ticket lottery part. Though he may have found glee in knowing that the elites could pay a commoner good money to stand in that line for them.
From the songs I’ve heard, its content is hagiography, and its instrumentation is bland, though the rhyme schemes are actually pretty solid. NPR hiphop. No thanks.
Popular shows sell out fast, and Hamilton is super-popular. I’m not sure why it’s a surprise to anyone that the Los Angeles run is sold out and scalpers are trying to make a profit.
When tickets for the LA run went on sale on a Sunday in April, about 2,500 people went in person to the Pantages to stand in line in the hot sun to buy tickets that morning - I was one of them. (The LA Times said 1,500 people, my friend who has a friend who worked security said 3,000; it sure felt like more than 1,500 to me). I got my relatively cheap (85$), back of the balcony tickets that day and I’m happy to have them. The cheaper tickets were still available to some performances as late as that Sunday evening, but if you didn’t plan to buy your tickets that day, and you still want to go, you’ll be paying scalpers prices if you’re not lucky in the lottery. It sucks but that’s how the world works.
Or you could wait 10 years or so for the show to be put on by the LORT houses (smaller regional professional theatres) - I saw “In The Heights” at PCPA in Solvang, California last year; I’m sure they’ll do Hamilton as soon as they can get the rights. I hear there’s a second national tour in the works as well.
Well, I won the online $10 ticket lottery! I’ve been entering nearly every day, and on Tuesday morning I got the text notification that I was a winner for Wednesday’s performance. My husband wasn’t interested in going (he doesn’t like what he’s heard of the soundtrack, and he’s still recovering from a serious surgery so probably wouldn’t go even if he wanted to), so I called a musical-theatre-loving friend to be my date.
You don’t find out where your tickets are until you pick them up right before the show. The lottery website warns that the tickets could be obstructed view, and there is no guarantee that pairs will not be split up, so we were prepared for that. Our tickets ended up being front row, on the center aisle! It doesn’t get much better than that.
The show was, in a word, amazing and we had a great time. I am looking forward to seeing it again, from up in the nosebleed sections.
So if you’re in Los Angeles, enter the online ticket lottery (www.luckyseat.com) for every performance that you’re available!
Congratulations, Paula!
I was just a block down the street from you last night to see a show at the Fonda.