Is Hamilton in NYC worth it?

[Anonymous]

I've seen it in NY and DC. Both casts were great, and in some ways I preferred many of the DC performers. It's an amazing experience, and even the upper-tier seats provide an incredible experience!

PP, in NY, the person next to me started singing softly at one point, and I blasted her with my Medusa-glare and she stopped. LOL!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do people sing along? I hope not but that’s my fear about going -

No.

Lol can you imagine? “Here comes the general!”

DD regularly looks at $10 bills and sings “Al-ex-an-der Ham-il-ton”!

[Anonymous]

How are you spending $350/person on the cheap tickets? We spent $199. Granted we are in an upper balcony and we bought these suckers almost a year ago, but surely THESE are the cheap tickets.

We are seeing it here in NYC tomorrow! Have seen it first at the Kennedy twice -- once with my kiddo after we won lottery tickets in the second row for $10 each which was a totally electric experience, and the second time with tickets much further back in row AA that we spent real cash on, and maybe wasnot quite as amazing but still pretty great.

We can't wait! Well, *I* can't wait!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw it in NYC and it's definitely worth it. It's a theater experience unlike any other -- the whole audience is invested from the moment they arrive so it's an electric atmosphere. I found it overwhelming in the very best way (the way where you get tears in your eyes and just feel full of the experience.
That made me sound insane, but it's true.)

+ a million
I saw Hamilton in NY and the experience went beyond any and all expectations I had prior

[Anonymous]

I liked the show, but it didn't live up to all the hype for me.

Besides what's with all those anonymous Federalist Papers written by Hamilton..

I hate people who write anonymous crap!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I liked the show, but it didn't live up to all the hype for me.

Besides what's with all those anonymous Federalist Papers written by Hamilton..

I hate people who write anonymous crap!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do people sing along? I hope not but that’s my fear about going -

No.

Although, it would be fun if they did a sing-along version at Wolftrap!

Give it 20 years there will be sing alongs and it will be broadcast during PHS fundraising drives, if PBS still exists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tix seem to have dropped a bit. . . Around $350/person for the cheap tix. Is it worth it? We can afford it, but I'm cheap. . .

1 or 2 days before a show the Kennedy Center has great front orchestra seats on the aisle for 299 or 399. Check out Tues Aug 7 for example. 399. Members paid 625 for in the back in the middle seats. These were holdback tickets. I assume. So totally not worth going to NYC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How are you spending $350/person on the cheap tickets? We spent $199. Granted we are in an upper balcony and we bought these suckers almost a year ago, but surely THESE are the cheap tickets.

We are seeing it here in NYC tomorrow! Have seen it first at the Kennedy twice -- once with my kiddo after we won lottery tickets in the second row for $10 each which was a totally electric experience, and the second time with tickets much further back in row AA that we spent real cash on, and maybe wasnot quite as amazing but still pretty great.

We can't wait! Well, *I* can't wait!

I am this person and we just saw it today in noseblead seats basically in the very last row of the theater, for $199 each.

At first I was disappointed in our seats, we were so very far back. But some members of the current case were really amazing -- Hamilton, George Washington, Eliza. Eliza made me cry twice. The acoustics in NY were much better; I think the set up of the show itself was better, maybe the ensenble cast was better. The music was always synchronized, the chorus was loud and amazing during the battle scenes. I really really enjoyed the Kennedy Center experience, both times. But NYC was different and special and in many ways better than the Kennedy. Even from the nosebleads.

If I had the chance to do it again, I would spring for slightly closer seats though. At least the second balcony, not all the way at the top. We had a large party so it all would have added up, but still, I think it would have been worth it.

What kills me though is that I got these tickets like 8 months ago by getting on the "fan" email list to get notified when a new set of tickets would get released, and I bought them as soon as they were, and we STILL wound up with seats all the way in the back. Oh well. It was still amazing. Very happy to have gone to this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do people sing along? I hope not but that’s my fear about going -

No.

The answer is no, but, at least in the NY theater, the voices and orchestra are amplified, so most of the time you couldn't hear them, even if they were.