Is anyone going to Hamilton on the 9th?- Page 2

Posted: 7/8/16 at 4:51pm

do u think the leads will be out on the matinee tomorrow?

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 7/8/16 at 4:56pm

Unless they're sick, they should be in.

[CercleRouge]

Posted: 7/8/16 at 4:56pm

I know Lin said in that tweet the other day that he'd be in every show between Thursday night and Saturday night.

[sharilynj]

Posted: 7/8/16 at 5:02pm

Lin tweeted this morning that he had 3 shows left. He'll be in.

[broadwaysfguy]

Posted: 7/8/16 at 5:26pm

appreciate those going sharing their take on the final show for three great leads saturday night. those of us not in NYC or without the connections or big bucks to get into a show like this are grafeful to you!

i agree with having this as a separate post and thanks OP for teeing it up....

 

[Castle2]

Posted: 7/8/16 at 8:31pm

My best friend is at tonight's show.  Andrew Chappelle is in as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison.

[MyFavoriteBrunette]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 1:52am

CercleRouge said: "I'm considering going to the matinee. Is there anything to indicate that the entire cast won't be present for the matinee on the day of the final show?

You still haven't pulled the trigger?  I watch tickets for the heck of it and was really taken back by seats the other night.  The last 4 tickets were between $3500-5000.  The last 4 tickets weren't even priced that much when the OBC was in for the filmed performances last week.  

Get what you can!  Don't be left staring at a $5000 ticket 

[nyskier]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 8:44am

Looked at the lottery site and they don't appear to be having the lottery tor tonight's show. Only the matinee. Not that I was going to win, but bummed there isn't even a shot!

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 9:07am

Just saw all the bootlegs that were put up (somewhere online) with the original cast and couldn't believe how bored the cast looked.  Everyone except Leslie.  

[theguter]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 9:15am

Here's my humble submission on the ?#‎Downfall? Hitler Parody:
"How Hitler reacts when he finds out the ?#‎Hamilton? tickets he finally got will not include some of his favorite leading players..."

Apologies and love to Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr, Phillipa Soo, Jon Rua, Javier Muñoz, Betsy Struxness and so many more.

;">https://youtu.be/LJSGK1DTuZY

[nyskier]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 9:38am

nyskier said: "Looked at the lottery site and they don't appear to be having the lottery tor tonight's show. Only the matinee. Not that I was going to win, but bummed there isn't even a shot!

 

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They added the evening show!

 

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 9:54am

 

The best seats in the house are only going for $5,925--a bargain!

 

[indytallguy]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 11:11am

Some ticket prices for today dropping a fair amount on Ticketmaster. Still obscene pries, but less so :)

[CercleRouge]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 11:15am

MyFavoriteBrunette said: "CercleRouge said: "I'm considering going to the matinee. Is there anything to indicate that the entire cast won't be present for the matinee on the day of the final show?

You still haven't pulled the trigger?  I watch tickets for the heck of it and was really taken back by seats the other night.  The last 4 tickets were between $3500-5000.  The last 4 tickets weren't even priced that much when the OBC was in for the filmed performances last week.  

Get what you can!  Don't be left staring at a $5000 ticket"

Ugh you have no idea. On Wednesday I had purchased tickets at 1:40pm on VividSeats for the matinee. Of course the tickets never showed up in my e-mail. 2pm came and went and eventually the VividSeats help center told me there was some kind of error and I wouldn't be getting my tickets. 

Since then, I've barely seen anything affordable pop up, but at this point I think I'm just going to buy whatever is still available (for the matinee today). 

[CercleRouge]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 11:29am

Also for a few days there I had someone (actually several different people) who wanted to team up and get tickets together, but now I'm back to solo so once again it's trickier (and seemingly pricier) finding a solo ticket as opposed to a pair.

[willep]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 11:34am

Phantom4ever said: "Just saw all the bootlegs that were put up (somewhere online) with the original cast and couldn't believe how bored the cast looked.  Everyone except Leslie.  "

 

As someone who hasn't seen the show, I saw one of them online last night and didn't even finish watching that video. I know it's hard to capture what energy is like live, especially on a bootleg, but boy was that low energy and dull. I've been putting off listening to the full album, but the songs I've heard include the one in the clip I was watching, and my thought was that listening to it was a LOT more fun.

[Hellob]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 11:49am

sharilynj said: "I'm going. I don't imagine there will be much out of the ordinary, except perhaps an extended ovation for LMM (though I only have the Grammys to compare to) and a few speeches at the end which, will undoubtedly surface on Instagram in triplicate or more. In fact, I bet 50% of attendees will have no clue there's anything special about this particular performance.

I'm also a pt entertainment journalist, and I didn't even bother pitching a story anywhere because everything "special" is likely going to be worth little more than a tweet. They've already been getting awfully casual in performances, from what I hear, so no cute moments within the show itself are going to be newsworthy. 

 

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So, they are phoning it in lately? How long has that been the consensus?

[ashk8177]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 11:55am

CercleRouge said: "Also for a few days there I had someone (actually several different people) who wanted to team up and get tickets together, but now I'm back to solo so once again it's trickier (and seemingly pricier) finding a solo ticket as opposed to a pair.

I sent you a pm about pairing up

 

 

[haterobics]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 12:05pm

PalJoey said: "The best seats in the house are only going for $5,925--a bargain!"

Ugh, I would have been going tonight if only I hadn't hesitated. There was a brief window when Lin's departure was officially announced, when one scalper with like four center orchestra seats, on an aisle, like 7th or 8th row, hadn't raised his prices, and they were only $1900/seat. If I bought all four, and sold the other three, I'd be set right now... 30 minutes later, he raised the price, heh.

[sharilynj]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 12:17pm

Hellob said:  

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So, they are phoning it in lately? How long has that been the consensus?

 

I didn't say that at all. "Casual" doesn't mean not giving a ****. It means playing with each other and winking at the audience more, which it sounds like they've been doing.

They're professionals, performing a show that they will put as much energy and emotion into as any other night. Perhaps moreso, but how are most of us going to gauge that? I'm seeing the show for the first time (and I don't count the bootleg). I, and others like me, will have no real sense of what is and isn't "normal."

Nobody's going to stop mid-show and deliver a speech. Nobody's going to collapse on stage, overcome with emotion, within the first 5 minutes. All I said above is that none of the content of the actual show itself is going to be headline-worthy. Every article we see in the morning is going to talk about whatever happens at the end, maybe quote a few fans outside before and after, and that'll be it. 

[MyFavoriteBrunette]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 12:19pm

CercleRouge said: "Ugh you have no idea. On Wednesday I had purchased tickets at 1:40pm on VividSeats for the matinee. Of course the tickets never showed up in my e-mail.  today). 

Oh my gosh!! How awful is that?  I've always been afraid of that happening through StubHub.  Thank goodness I've purchased 4 tickets (3 transactions) for Hamilton through them that have all gone smoothly.  Not counting countless baseball playoffs and other concerts I've attended that went through seamlessly.

Good luck today!

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 12:20pm

My daughter is going tonight. She doesn't post here but I'll be curious about her experience as well. 

[mariel9]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 12:45pm

That's so weird about the bootleg. I've seen the show several times and the energy from the cast has always been amazing. Lin, especially, just exudes joy at being up there. There are so many great moments that are just in the staging (like Hercules Mulligan being the flower girl at the wedding) that the cast seems to have such fun with. Bootlegs can be really weird though, in not capturing the live energy.

[MyFavoriteBrunette]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 12:47pm

The introduction & curiosity of the show didn't start for me did start until I saw an SNL skit that mentioned it back in January "Have you seen Hamilton? You haven't seen Hamilton?"  So the next route I chose was google "Hamilton Broadway" AH!!!  Lin-Manuel!  The guy who did In The Heights then like an innocent, looking for a ticket.  Sold Out.  StubHub... Rear Mezz $290?!?!?  Are you crazy!  Thought this since I've been paying $100 and under to most of the Bway shows I've seen this year.  Decided to listen to the cast recording.  Once, twice, thrice...again and again. I was interested in everything I was listening to.  There were two close sisters, a love triangle, a war, Washington, an affair? OOOH!  Blackmail!  OMG!  Their son!  Why am I crying over Alexander Hamilton?!?!  I'm a grown-ass woman!  

All I wanted was a ticket to see the show but those $290 ridiculous seats went to $500+ after the Grammy performance. So I kept waiting for a miracle, LOL!  

I tried to hold back but I did watch Act 1 of the bootleg in April when it was on YouTube for a weekend.  My husband scolding me "why are you spoiling it for yourself".  It's not like I was gonna pay $500 for each of us to go.  I ended up falling asleep watching the bootleg!  I thought maybe the show itself wasn't all that but the cast recording was?  

Well, that Saturday I learned Johnathan Groff was leaving and just had to see him in it, to me he had the funniest lyrics!  How could I miss him?  So there I was, sitting in rear mezz watching the show.  And it was soooooo much better live than the bootleg video.  The lighting the energy.  Nope! I didn't fall asleep.

Updated On: 7/9/16 at 12:47 PM

[CercleRouge]

Posted: 7/9/16 at 12:52pm

Damn, was about to buy a ticket on StubHub just now for $1322 and when I go to click "purchase" of course the ticket disappears. I think fate is against me on this.