Hamilton.... good news... and bad news....

Yep. I know. That is why we decided to pull the kids out of school and go now instead of waiting until 1) after the Tony Awards and 2) during the summer when there would be more tourists and 3) until after June/July when the OBC's contracts were up. 

I fell in love with Hamilton by listening to the OBC and that's who I wanted to see on stage. It was a bucket list item I got to check off and I still sort of can't believe it actually happened.  

Oh, and the official word is that they are filming the show in the theater to be used for educational purposes. They have a whole curriculum built around Hamilton and I think that's why they are filming the show in the Rodgers. It's to be used in the classroom. I imagine it will end up on the internet somewhere though.  

Excellent! Living in the Midwest, it's extremely rare that I get to see the original casts (although I did see Stephanie Mills in The Wiz back in 78), so I'm happy that there will be a film of this cast. But I'm still looking forward to seeing the show in 2017.

Daveed Diggs and Leslie Odom, Jr. are my faves.  They are both so talented and completely hot Priorities hahaha

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! We were going to surprise our son for his birthday with a trip to NYC to see Hamilton - in August. He's a huge LMM fan. Sigh.
Well, maybe the ticket prices from the 3rd party sellers would go down a bit.

It will be awesome regardless of the cast....they are only a few big Broadway hits that I haven't seen on tour and I've never been disappointed.   At this point, my favorites have been "Cats", "The Lion King" and "Jersey Boys", but also enjoyed "Le Miz", "Phantom", "Beauty & The Beast".   Starting this fall, my season tickets for 2016/2017 here include "Beautiful; The Carole King Musical", "Fun Home", "Rent", "An American in Paris" and the play "Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"....lots of great shows!

Not every ticket broker is an asshole. The one we worked with was lovely and we got a (fairly) decent price for our resale tickets. He even had his runner deliver our tickets to us while we were sitting at a restaurant eating lunch so we wouldn't have to make a special trip to his office to fetch them. It seems odd to me you'd have a problem with people making a living reselling tickets and then in the next sentence say you wish you would have planned to resell tickets. Is reselling ok or not? Or is it only ok when you do it?  I'm really curious why you have a problem with brokers because our experience was wonderful start to finish. I knew we were getting genuine tickets and because I shopped around online I knew we were getting a fair price. 

Hamilton is....different. Unless you can plan months in advance then you're going to have to pay what the tickets cost right now. I can't buy tickets now for a show date six months away. I could be dead by then and that's not hyperbole. So. Thank FSM reliable and trustworthy ticket brokers are a thing because I would have been too nervous buying anonymously on the internet for tickets to a show halfway across the country. We had to lay out airfare, hotel, *and* money for theater tickets so it was worth it to me to work with a broker. 

Now that is an awesome gift!!!  We surprised our DDs with Wicked tickets on it's first tour in the South, but it was 3 months later. 

  We are going to NYC in September and have decided not to pursue Hamilton tickets.  I think I stumbled up on them a few months ago on day they were released, but, we had not confirmed our trip and I did not realize how hard they were to get.     We did by Electric Light Orchestra Tickets for Sept. concert was the weekend we were planning to go so we paid the black market.