We will never be able to get Hamilton tickets now!!

Hamilton tickets were nearly impossible to get BEFORE the Tonys and then became impossible once the Tony awards aired in June.

I bought my tickets for this June in September, the day they went on sale to the public. They go on sale to Amex card holders first. I don't have one. I was on line the second they went on sale and there were already very few left. I paid over $100 each for mezzanine tickets as well. I think I have rear mezzanine.

My suggestion for anyone that does not want to pay a premium is to get an Amex and follow the ticket release dates and buy them the day the tickets are released. You can also get on the cancellation line at the theater. Plan a trip around when you can get tickets. Also, the show will be in Chicago and on tour, so there will be more opportunities to see it soon!

I paid nearly $1000 for 4 face value seats for next December using AmEx and buying in the first minute of the presale. If you see resale tickets for $200, get them.

I heard on television that there will be two traveling Hamilton shows.

We waited over ten years to get tickets to Wicked. I wanted to see it in NYC and we only went every couple of years. So worth it.

NOOOO! I did not know this! Do you know the date? Dd is going to freak. I am freaking. I love this show so much. Have only seen it twice and thought I could go again. This is dd's dream show, she would love to be in it and had hoped it would be around long enough for her.

That is a sweet story.  I saw Wicked right when it opened and wasn't impossible to get tickets. I didn't even want to go I just went along with the group! I was blown away.  There is something about having no low expectations.

I credit The Little Mermaid with my daughters desire to be on Broadway, we saw it when she was 6, we had seats up high and i had to hold on rot the back of her dress as  I thought she would fall into the row in front of us.  When we got home she wrote her first fan letter to the boy who played Flounder.  She has not looked back!

I haven't seen a professional production of Rent.  Despite the fact that my BIL is Jonathan Larson's cousin.  

According to Playbill An American in Paris is still an open ended run:

An American in Paris Playbill

I see tickets for sale in September.

AH I forgot about School of Rock.. it is supposed to be fantastic.... Sutton Foster is amazing.

She would have flipped with what I saw at the last Broadway Flea Market. They had original costumes from Mermaid on sale. I was able to totally examine the mermaid costume itself. Triton's costume was there too. There were probably be others, but those two attracted my attention.

I have a ballet dancer. A crazy competitive field. Her back up plan you ask? Broadway. LOL! Crazy. She managed to get herself into a Fosse workshop last year and, had she ended up with an actual paying job, you would have said she was "discovered." These amazing people took her under their wing and mentored her, encouraging her to start auditioning when she turned 18. She still hasn't as she is riding the ballet bus for now, but maintaining her musical theater skills as much as she can while juggling full time ballet, part time college and life as an adult at 18 (you know, food shopping, laundry, etc).

I think Hamilton is going to have the same effect on theatre that Rent had so many years ago. And that shake up is going to be good!

DS lives in NYC and can get tix to (I'm pretty sure) any show (lots of friends/roommate on Broadway) but not to Hamilton :/ When I was out last spring we tried to see it at the Public. No luck. Then DS won the lottery in September and saw it on Broadway, so when I was out later in the fall we tried, twice, with a bunch of his friends putting their names in for us. No luck.

So, I went home to Seattle and promptly bought tickets for 11 months later...October 2016. If that's what it's gonna take, so be it Hoping that at least some of the original cast is still in it then.

What's killing me is that everyone says NOT to listen to the cast recording until after I've seen it....

Did they tell you their reasoning? Everyone we know who's gone to NY to see Hamilton (grrr) knew the music very well. And my husband and kids play the music so much, I've just learned it by osmosis, so too late for me!

We see a ton of musicals in my family. I raised my kids to always learn the music/lyrics practically by heart first.* I'm not sure my old brain/ears could process the fast lyrics to this show on the spot, so report back about your experience...in eight months. Heh. 

*My son, when he was 11, got picked to be a Speller in the "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" because he impressed the speller-auditioners by singing one of the songs by heart. Now he gets to say he was in the original Broadway cast of Spelling Bee. (He just leaves out the part about it only being for one night!)