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    So Hamilton is playing at the Fox in Atlanta currently. Tickets are crazy expensive, the prices fluctuate, at one point they were over $600 per seat (even all the way in the back) and last time I looked they had dropped to "only" ~$480 each.

    No way I'm paying that much to see, well, about anything to be honest.

    But they have a lottery, if you win you can get a pair of tickets for only $10 each. And only the person who wins can claim the tickets (so you can't sell them to make a healthy profit). The lottery says the seats may be obstructed view, and they can't guarantee your two seats will be together. They have a separate contest for each day. Two days before the show you can enter, the day before they let you know if you won or not.

    Well the wife has been entering every day for the Atlanta shows. Friday morning she calls and tells me she won a pair of tickets for the 8pm show on Saturday night!!! What! So we scramble to make plans to attend, and with a 10 week old baby and no family in town it's a big ordeal. We ended up getting caught in traffic (I hate Atlanta), and arrived over an hour later than planned at my parents house to drop off the baby. Thankfully no traffic on the way to the show from there, so we arrived with about 20 minutes to spare.

    You don't get to pick your seats if you win the lottery. So we get there, collect our tickets, and see that we are sitting next to each other (yay!) but don't pay any other attention to where they're at.

    Y'all. Lin Manuel is both a genius, and a good dude. The lottery tickets are FRONT ROW SEATS. WHAT!!

    The show was freakin' awesome, loved every bit of it. Can't believe we got to sit front row for only $10 each. Also, I think we saw the very last show in Atlanta.

    Between gas, food (we didn't get to eat dinner thanks to the traffic problems), and some souvenirs it still wasn't exactly a 'cheap date', but it was an awesome night.

    Speaking of the souvenirs - $40 for a t-shirt!!! And people LINED UP to pay it, us included! We also got a onesie for the baby, 'cause, I mean how could we not...


    The hottest merch of 'Hamilton,' from the 'Scrappy' baby onesie to the 'My Shot' glass

    Anyhow. If you get a chance to see the show, do it, it lives up to the hype (and nothing ever lives up to the hype IMO). They're doing the lottery everywhere it's playing I think :: Lottery - Hamilton Official Site – Hamilton Official Site
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    That’s a great story. Congrats!

    It’s playing DC from June to Sept and some tickets were just announced a few weeks back. My wife got up earlier than she usually does on a Saturday to snag some. I think we paid about $180 a pop for right after Labor Day. Looking forward to it.

    My folks saw it in NY and raves about it.

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    Bravo! I want to see it, but I agree $480 is a touch steep... I completely agree that Lin Manuel is a creative genius and a mensch. Some day...
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    Hamilton is playing at the Victoria Palace in London. They did not want the crazy scalping to happen here so have tight rules about ticket purchases and resale. You pick up your tickets at the box office as you enter by showing ID and credit card used for the purchase. You decide you can't go, you can return your tickets back to the box office for refund before the performance online at anytime. A few days before performances tickets always get returned and you can purchase these at face value. It is such a nice system I don't see why they don't introduce it in the states. The best seats run £200 ($280). It's a steal

    BTW, as an American, just seeing King George sing 'You'll be Back' in England is worth the price of tickets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vertical_doug View Post
    Hamilton is playing at the Victoria Palace in London. They did not want the crazy scalping to happen here so have tight rules about ticket purchases and resale. You pick up your tickets at the box office as you enter by showing ID and credit card used for the purchase. You decide you can't go, you can return your tickets back to the box office for refund before the performance online at anytime. A few days before performances tickets always get returned and you can purchase these at face value. It is such a nice system I don't see why they don't introduce it in the states. The best seats run £200 ($280). It's a steal

    BTW, as an American, just seeing King George sing 'You'll be Back' in England is worth the price of tickets.
    King George was our favorite!! The guy that played him at the Atlanta show was incredibly talented too, I can't imagine how anyone could have done it better, and he had an amazing voice. He winked at my wife, made her night!

    Getting tickets can be a real issue thanks to bots. When Sturgill Simpson played at the Fox in Atlanta a year or two ago tickets were only $60 each, but the 'bots got them. I was at my PC hitting refresh when they went on sale so I'd be first in line. It went from from "Tickets go on sale at 10am" immediately to "This show is sold out" F***!!!!!! Folks then resold them for a couple hundred bucks a seat. Soo....we didn't get to go see him. I'm still pissed about that.
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    I hear he is working on something new presently. Crafting the second thing after a success is always tough.
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