Wednesday, July 06, 2016
Lin-Manuel Miranda Leaving ‘Hamilton’: Fans Wait Hours for a Ticket
Variety: Debbie Alsebai has spent 55 hours of her life waiting for a ticket to “Hamilton.” The first time she tried to snag one of the very few seats released to the cancellations line before each performance, she stood for 12 hours before having to return home to Boston. The second time she waited for 25 hours before she gave up.
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This is insane, waiting in line for that long for tickets is crazy and i get why people do it. But its insane, i understand i want to see it so bad, i would give up a lot to see it but thousands of hours and dollars is insane. Hamilton is so over blown i love the music and love the show but theres other amazing broadway shows out there but all you ever here is hamilton. When you ask someone about broadway thats not into theatre they can all tell you hamilton but they can't mention may of the other amazing shows on broadway and its sad. Its sad that one show can distract from all the other shows out there. But i still believe hamilton is a great show. I also don't agree with the bootlegs that people are recording its not fair to Lin or anyone else in the show. People know its wrong but they still do it, it ruins the magic its not the same as being there and seeing it live theres no way to describe the feeling of seeing a live for the first time.
This is completely insane. Of course I understand the desire to see Hamilton while Lin is still in it, but I don't think 50+ hours on top of the cost of the tickets could ever be worth it. In the amount of effort put into getting tickets for Hamilton, one could go see at least 5 other great shows on Broadway. The price of the tickets has made the show so inaccessible for the general public to go see, and I think the quality of the show is being blown out of proportion to some degree. Plus as soon as Lin and his fellow actors leave the show, the tickets will certainly drop in demand. I also dislike that some people buy tickets to go see the show a million times; they're ultimately just taking opportunities away for others to get to see the show for the first time and end up only increasing prices even more.
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