Hamilton - The Musical

Jonathan Groff is the actor who provided the voice of Kristoff in Disney’s Frozen, btw.

And Peggy!

(Seriously, it’s good that she got more than just Peggy Schuyler.

I haven’t seen Frozen. In the stage show, I’m guessing Peggy is played for laughs?

MiM

Wow!! Congratulations!

No. Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton & Angelica Schuyler Church appear in both acts of the play. Peggy only appears in the first half–Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler Van Rensselear died rather young.

But the same actress shows up in Act 2 as the notorious Mrs Reynolds.

Thanks! Apparently in an effort to curb all the [del]scalping[/del] reselling going on, Ticketmaster cancelled a bunch of large multi-ticket purchases for November & December, which is where those surprise tickets came from on Wednesday!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/theater/hamilton-takes-steps-to-limit-the-resale-of-its-tickets.html

Two things: first is this super-cool timeline of Alexander Hamilton’s life featuring annotations to the lyrics and songs from the cast album, which is presently consuming 93% of my time: Home | Atlantic Records

And the other is a funny bit that I came across somewhere online. This is a paraphrase but as close as I can remember it:

EVERYTHING: is all right
HAMILTON: quotes ‘Macbeth’
EVERYTHING: goes to hell

I’ve only seen the clips on YouTube and a few gifs, but they blow me away even more. Especially in the closing number as Eliza sings

My love, I can’t wait to see you again. Hamilton crosses behind her with a wistful look, and she turns and just misses him disappear into the darkness.

Apparently a few of the primary performers, including Miranda, are leaving in July when their contracts are up.

On the 9th, so Maggie caught one of what will be an even hotter (if that were possible) ticket!

More on the cast changes, and soaring ticket prices. The last paragraph made me smile: 'Hamilton' tickets as high as $10,000 on report Lin-Manuel Miranda is leaving

Apparently resale value on the tix I got is at about $4k each :open_mouth:

Hamilton only won 11 Tonys tonight. Cynthia Erivo won Best Actress in a Musical for The Color Purple–probably a more impressive part than the quiet strength of Phillipa Soo’s Eliza. She Loves Me won for Scenic Design–the Art Nouveau shop in Old Budapest was quite charming. (Zachary Levi’s in the play? I watched for Hamilton but saw bits of other plays I’d love to see.) Otherwise, Hamilton won everything.

Three actors from the show were up for Featured Actor in a Musical; Daveed Diggs won. And Leslie Odom Jr won Best Actor in a Musical over LMM. The Hamilton cast did the opening number & a closing number. Plus the Yorktown number from the show–without muskets, as as sign of respect for what happened in Orlando.

LMM’s “speech” for winning Best Score was a sonnet.

That had my wife in tears. Thanks Lin, making the rest of us guys look like uncultured, hard-hearted loser :wink:

Loved his speech.

I got an e-mail at around 10:45 that at 11:15 pm a new block of tickets were opening up last night. At 11:17 I learned the first date I picked in February 2017 was sold out. Tried two more dates after that but by then it was hopeless…

Hoping the secondary market prices drop once people realize the current cast is leaving in the coming months.

After seeing the 60 Minutes segment and the Tonys, LMM is an intelligent, likeable person who is going to go far. I noticed the cast did not have their guns in the opening number.

Indeed they made a statement on Twitter that morning they would forgo the muskets in deference to the murders in Orlando.

See pp. 4-5 here, in the official Mount Vernon magazine, for coverage of the special Washington Prize given to Miranda: Preview the Magazine · George Washington's Mount Vernon

Going to go? He has two Tony awards for best musical to his credit, a MacArthur genius grant, drama desk awards, A PULITZER and productions of his plays running simultaneously on 3 continents, and has written for Disney as well. He is the biggest star in live theater at the moment. I don’t know that he can go a whole heck of a lot farther.

Bought tickets yesterday for November in Chicago. First day they went on sale.

Wasn’t hard at all to get tix - just cost a helluva lotta $!

You were luckier than most.

I managed to “reserve” tickets on Ticketmaster, my wait time shot up to 45 minutes, and then 20 minutes later it just kicked me out. By the time I got back on all that was left was the super premium seats or obstructed view seats.

I’m just going to enter the daily lottery and wait until they extend the run. I’m definitely not buying anything on Stubhub unless the resellers realize they over bought and prices go down.

Weird. My wife did the ordering, so I don’t know too many specifics. But it didn’t seem hard at all. In the a.m. she was trying to do it via Safari, but was kept waiting endlessly. In the p.m. she tried Firefox, and got right in. I think we bought them around 4:30 p.m. And at that time, we had our choice of seats on just about every date we tried.

I don’t know what super premium means, but we paid A LOT for main floor pretty close to the stage. Tho we spent a lot, we have seen shows w/ crappy, distant, obstructed seats in the past, and I’m simply not going to do that again.