http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainmen...cago-story.html

 

Very awesome news that Chicago will get the same theatre company putting this on. Its why I still love this city, and don't care that the south has lower taxes, DAD.

 

While the writer/director/actor will change, the same production company is putting it on at bank of america theatre. This is the only city in the country getting this treatment outside of broadway circuit.

Edited December 8, 201510 yr by bmags

Here is a link with less content that is free.

 

http://abc7chicago.com/entertainment/broad...n-2016/1114503/

 

the musical Hamilton who would have thought a musical on alexander hamilton.... then again, who would have thought a musical on 1776 and that had a lot of great music.

 

i hope the music is just as good or better.

 

i am envious of not being in chi. for this.

Tickets goin for hundreds of dollars though?

 

I am interested in this just because it's so popular but I never really liked musicals so it would be a very expensive roll of the dice for me.

 

Hard to know about tickets at this point, likely around Book of Mormon where $60 will likely be starting point. Will be difficult first month for tickets.

 

If you don't like Musicals/Theatre not sure I would tell you this is the one to start with, but it certainly seems to have been popular with a wide swath.

So the first wave of tickets has come out and the cheapest is $550.

 

Somehow more expensive than new york.

So the first wave of tickets has come out and the cheapest is $550.

 

Somehow more expensive than new york.

 

Well damn...

I'm a bit confused by this right now, it may be this wave that was sent out was paying a premium to secure a ticket to the date you want. No idea if these are more reasonable.

 

But yeah, you could technically see Hamilton in New York in october cheaper right now than in Chicago, so something is up.

Edited May 24, 20169 yr by bmags

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainmen...cago-story.html

 

Very awesome news that Chicago will get the same theatre company putting this on. Its why I still love this city, and don't care that the south has lower taxes, DAD.

 

While the writer/director/actor will change, the same production company is putting it on at bank of america theatre. This is the only city in the country getting this treatment outside of broadway circuit.

v. cool that 21st century has seen the resurgence of cooning.

??

 

Individual tickets are not on sale yet. Subscriptions and group tickets are (though they're currently no longer taking groups), but there are no individual tickets.

 

I was fortunate to get a fairly cheap subscription (Sunday evenings in the middle balcony; about $160 total for five shows) and get in a group so as of now I'm going twice in October. As a history teacher who also directs theatre this show is tailor-made for me, and is a very rare occurrence of something completely living up to the hype and then some. Can't wait.

v. cool that 21st century has seen the resurgence of cooning.

 

...?

So the lead is leaving the show apparently.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/livenationpresents/po...anda-reportedly

 

 

I'm not shocked by that. He'll probably get paid an insane ton for his next one.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainmen...0608-story.html

 

News is much better than previously thought, and I continue to be confused what the hell that pre-sale link was from broadwayinchicago.

 

40 seats per night will be lottery'd for $10.

I don't know if I ever heard this much buzz leading up to a musical opening in Chicago.

Well part of it is just you and me talking about it

 

But, some of it is probably internet/meme related, the other is it apparently is just that good and for a wide audience.

 

Book of mormon was hilarious, but how many would want to see it with your mom?

I remember back in 2008-ish when Wicked was in town. My wife really wanted to go and i remember calling Ticketmaster over and over and over (I'm sure if i had the option at the time i would have been trying online as well) and could never get through. I remember one frustrating day of trying and giving up then turning on Channel 7 news and watching an interview with some old ladies about Wicked. I got so pissed when there were all like..."I've seen it 7 times already" "I've seen it 5 times".

 

I remember ranting "WTF??? I just want to see it ONCE for Christ's sake!!!" I guess that's what i get for being poor and could only afford the cheap seats......

 

I know Hamilton is THE show right now but I would much rather see Something Rotten myself....they just announced a tour but sadly (at the moment) they aren't coming to chicago and i don't think i want to drive to St. Louis to see it......

ugh, this is miserable. I know I failed at getting tickets but its still going to string me along for 45 more minutes acting like I'm in line for anything. assholes.

woo hoo, ended up calling their robot phone number and got tickets for 12/15.

I'm so pissed. I'm trying to get a pair of tickets for my parents. I got on at 10:10 to the website and was able to look at multiple dates and multiple seats without a problem. I thought, oh, well this has been overhyped. So I call my mom just to make sure the dates I was looking at were ok. I go back to the website 5 minutes later and now i'm stuck in "line" while the system "searches" for tickets. I've been waiting for an hour. I despise ticketmaster's system.

woo hoo, ended up calling their robot phone number and got tickets for 12/15.

 

what number did you call?

woo hoo, ended up calling their robot phone number and got tickets for 12/15.

 

Can I ask how much did you pay?

I gave up.

I gave up.

 

Here you go:

 

http://www.stubhub.com/hamilton-chicago-ti...sliderpos=false

I love my parents, but not that much!