Are Your Kids Obsessed with Hamilton?

[Anonymous]

we have a divided family. I and DS (16, musical performer and actor) loved it ... DH and DD (14) refused to see it (too popular and conformist to be worth seeing in their view). We were all happy - DS & I had one of the best nights of our lives. DH & DD laughed at how conformist we were.

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Anonymous wrote:Besides winning the lottery, is there a way to get good seats for this? I'm looking at what's available on the website and it's either noseblead seats at $400 or better seats for at least $600, but more probably $850. Since we want to go as a family, that's a $3K investment for a 3 hour show. Do people ever get $200 or even $300 seats in the middle to back orchestra? I'm guessing not.

I have heard of people jumping on line as soon as new tickets are released and getting them for face value. But note that, if you're looking at New York, the theater is very small (one of the "jewel box" theaters in NY), and there really are no bad seats. The music is very amplified, as well, so you'll have n problem hearing (in fact, one person we were with thought it was too loud).

This is what we did.

I got through on-line three minutes (!!) after a new Broadway block went on sale -- scored first row center Mezz tickets at face value ($200/ticket).

Of course, this was nine months in advance. But the extra long wait time has given us all plenty of time to obsess about and anticipate the experience. The kids are very excited!!

How did you know when a new block is released? Is it announced in advance, or is there a schedule?

Go to the Hamilton website and get on the mailing list. I snagged mine pretty easily this way. Granted, tickets are for months in the future, but at least I didn't pay a scalper.

[Anonymous]

It's absolutely worth seeing on Broadway. If you can get tickets, get them and go!

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Anonymous wrote:Besides winning the lottery, is there a way to get good seats for this? I'm looking at what's available on the website and it's either noseblead seats at $400 or better seats for at least $600, but more probably $850. Since we want to go as a family, that's a $3K investment for a 3 hour show. Do people ever get $200 or even $300 seats in the middle to back orchestra? I'm guessing not.

I have heard of people jumping on line as soon as new tickets are released and getting them for face value. But note that, if you're looking at New York, the theater is very small (one of the "jewel box" theaters in NY), and there really are no bad seats. The music is very amplified, as well, so you'll have n problem hearing (in fact, one person we were with thought it was too loud).

This is what we did.

I got through on-line three minutes (!!) after a new Broadway block went on sale -- scored first row center Mezz tickets at face value ($200/ticket).

Of course, this was nine months in advance. But the extra long wait time has given us all plenty of time to obsess about and anticipate the experience. The kids are very excited!!

How did you know when a new block is released? Is it announced in advance, or is there a schedule?

Go to the Hamilton website and get on the mailing list. I snagged mine pretty easily this way. Granted, tickets are for months in the future, but at least I didn't pay a scalper.

Thank you!

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Anonymous wrote:over rated garbage

It really was. I felt like nobody had the courage to say it was a waste of time and money (even though our tickets were free). It was painfully corny.

THANK YOU. I think there are so many who feel exactly that way (I know we did), but as you said, lack the courage to actually say so. It's hard to be the dissenters when everyone else seems to be drinking the Kool-Aid.

n

Isn't it possible that others genuinely love it? Look, I loathed Forest Gump and Titanic and always will. Absolute dreck in my opinion. But the fact that others loved them just might make mine the minority opinion, not that others don't have the courage to call them dreck. What an odd thing to pat yourself on the back about (in terms of "courage") regardless.

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Anonymous wrote:over rated garbage

It really was. I felt like nobody had the courage to say it was a waste of time and money (even though our tickets were free). It was painfully corny.

THANK YOU. I think there are so many who feel exactly that way (I know we did), but as you said, lack the courage to actually say so. It's hard to be the dissenters when everyone else seems to be drinking the Kool-Aid.

n

Isn't it possible that others genuinely love it? Look, I loathed Forest Gump and Titanic and always will. Absolute dreck in my opinion. But the fact that others loved them just might make mine the minority opinion, not that others don't have the courage to call them dreck. What an odd thing to pat yourself on the back about (in terms of "courage") regardless.

PP here. Of course plenty of people genuinely love Hamilton. Obviously, the show has been a huge hit, so I'm sure that I - and my fellow haters - are in the minority. The point was, no one who hated it (including me) has the nerve to say so in public. If you do, you get slammed by the rabid fans who won't stand for any negative reviews. Not patting myself, or anyone else, on the back - how odd of you to think that.

I also loathed Titanic (but kind of liked Forrest Gump). I think you missed the entire point of my post.

[Anonymous]

No, I wasn't thrilled by the music and didn't show it to my kids. They heard some of it at school, but likewise weren't excited about it.

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No, I wasn't thrilled by the music and didn't show it to my kids. They heard some of it at school, but likewise weren't excited about it.

+100

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No. It's definitely a girl thing.

[Anonymous]

Please stop treating your boys like little girls, it is disturbing!

[Anonymous]

What do you mean? So many of the parts in the play are men. My boys love My Shot -- all of the rapping etc. and their friends too.

[Anonymous]

This play (sorry, "musical") must be why my children's teachers now feel that showing them a rap video equates to actually teaching them something, or having them read actual works of literature and write actual book reports on them. Thanks, Hamilton.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you mean? So many of the parts in the play are men. My boys love My Shot -- all of the rapping etc. and their friends too.

Men?

I guess that depends on what your definition of a man is.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you mean? So many of the parts in the play are men. My boys love My Shot -- all of the rapping etc. and their friends too.

Men?

I guess that depends on what your definition of a man is.

Actually, based on this comment I suspect you are the one who has limited understanding of what really defines a man.

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Anonymous wrote:This play (sorry, "musical") must be why my children's teachers now feel that showing them a rap video equates to actually teaching them something, or having them read actual works of literature and write actual book reports on them. Thanks, Hamilton.

Well that's been happening for a long time. Remember "Dangerous Minds"?