Just curious, is there a closing date set for Hamilton in Chicago?

[Islander_fan]

Posted: 1/9/17 at 9:38am

One of my coworkers at The Rdogers mentioned to me that the show was closing in Chicago but weren't 100 per cent sure.I went to check and the official website states that it's in performances until September 17th but not clear if that is the final date, or if it's just the date they're selling tickets until and could possibly extend longer than that. 

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 1/9/17 at 9:39am

Not yet.

[Islander_fan]

Posted: 1/9/17 at 9:42am

Thanks, just curious and the website was ambiguous as well.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 1/9/17 at 9:48am

I think they plan to run in Chicago for 2 years 

[loveinnewyorkcity]

Posted: 1/9/17 at 9:59am

The Broadway.org tour page does have it listed as a tour date, September 27, 2017 - September 2017.

Not sure if that's a closing date or that's when tickets are on sale through.

https://www.broadway.org/tours/details/hamilton,673

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 1/9/17 at 10:15am

That's not a closing date.

[adagio]

Posted: 1/9/17 at 12:10pm

Worth noting that there are still premium tickets available for quite a few performances in the most recent ticket block they released in Chicago (affordable tickets are long gone of course). I'd say they may have misestimated the price tag, especially given how much of the orchestra, including some less-than-stellar seats, were marked as premium. Perhaps they should have added a "preferred" tier at about the $300 mark like NYC.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 1/9/17 at 2:17pm

It's an open run. However, it is expected to run for about 18 months. According to Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune on Dec. 9, 2015:

"From the producers' point of view, the ideal length of a Chicago run is not merely dependent on whether or not the show is selling out here. Rather, the issue is how much tickets are selling for. It is crucial to maintain scarcity of supply and to avoid discounting, a practice that not only cuts into profits but can undermine the ability of the Broadway production to command its stratospheric prices in New York. These days, conventional wisdom has it that you leave a city while demand for tickets still is sky high — and go to another city where you can be another box office sensation. The producers will not let demand in Chicago slow even a smidgen — and remember the venue in Chicago has about 500 more seats than the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it continues to play."

After about a year, as the show ages and the tour(s) reduce the demand from regional tourists in the city, ticket buyers from the Chicago area would expect a normalization of the prices, particularly the premium prices. But as Chris Jones notes in the above article, the producers don't want to normalize the ticket prices, they want them to remain astronomical. Though Hamilton is a sold-out smash, it's demand appears to be more comparable to Wicked and the original tours of Phantom and Les Miz than it is to the outrageousness of the demand of its own Broadway production (which I attribute significantly to the scalpers and not so much the show itself).