HAMILTON's Digital Lottery--Just for the Winter- Page 6

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 6:50pm

seaweedjstubbs said: "According to Twitter, people who received a lottery winner email are being offered free tickets to ON YOUR FEET tonight. Very nice gesture, although not what those lottery "winners" were hoping for, I'm sure."

 

Not according to twitter the entity; according to this tweet by a user of it:

https://twitter.com/rdmcphee/status/684504573340434432

[seaweedjstubbs]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 6:55pm

Whoops, totally meant to link the tweet! Thanks for posting it, Lizzie!

[gypsy101]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 7:04pm

"Our records indicate that you received an email notification for tonight's performance of HAMILTON. Due to a malfunction, no lottery tickets are being confirmed for HAMILTON this evening. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. In the event you have already paid for tickets online, the transaction will be voided and your money refunded to you atomatically.

 

As you are likely aware, Broadway Direct experienced unprecedented and overwhelming web traffic today, the first day of the HAMILTON Broadway Direct Digital Lottery. As a result, the HAMILTON lottery malfunctioned. Due to the malfuncion, the lottery for today has been voided and no tickets will be awarded for tonight's performance.

 

Because you received an invalid winner email notification, on behalf of HAMILTON and Broadway Direct, we would like to invite you to see ON YOUR FEET! tonight at 7pm as our guest. The show is playing directly next door to Hamilton at the Marquis Theatre (46th Street between Broadway & 8th).

 

If you would like to attend, please reply to this email with your name and whether you would like 1 or 2 tickets and they will be available to you at the box office of the Marquis Theatre starting at 6:30pm.

 

Again, we are very sorry for the inconvenience."

 

Lizzie, that's looks like exactly what the email says.

[lite2shine]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 7:07pm

gypsy101 said: 

 

I don't think $1 is enough to stop people from entering. That's a steal compared to the normal price.

"

I agree, but if they actually start to charge and donate to a charity organization, that would be win-win. Besides, if it's free, ppl can enter everyday. if it's $1 per entry, and if you enter every day and lose, you are paying $356. You would have been able to buy at least one Hamilton ticket from stubhub.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 7:11pm

Yes!  It's time these $10 seats cost more.  Maybe $15 for premium lottery seats more towards the center?

[lite2shine]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 7:13pm

FindingNamo said: "Yes!  It's time these $10 seats cost more.  Maybe $15 for premium lottery seats more towards the center?

 

"

No, $10 seat won't cost more if $1/entry is instituted. If you win, you pay $9/ticket.

[Margo319]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 7:29pm

This whole thing was a sh*t show today

Updated On: 1/5/16 at 07:29 PM

[Anakela]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 7:43pm

I love the internet. 

https://twitter.com/delaurenski/status/684533473315532801

[benmangini]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 7:58pm

Why did this never happenwhen Hamilton was the broadwaybox lotto ? 

[Julie Yard]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 7:59pm

I don't know how scalpers bombarded the site the last time Hamilton tickets were released (or in general) but I do imagine they would apply that technology to a lottery site... they're already getting 3, 4, 5 times ticket value for full priced tickets. I would imagine they could sell any lottery wins and make 30, 40, or 50 times their investment.

 

[ZellMorrowsPledge]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 8:00pm

KCW said: "What about New Jersey? Can they not go?

 

"

I live an hour and a half, by train, from the city and I managed to see Fun Home when I won the Fun Home lottery 4 hours before showtime. Its do-able.

[ZellMorrowsPledge]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 8:07pm

This is the definition of an imbecile. https://twitter.com/delaurenski/status/684524814162358275

IF YOU LIVE IN FRICKIN CONNECTICUT WHY ARE YOU ENTERING A LOTTERY TO SEE A BROADWAY SHOW IN NEW YORK CITY THAT BEGINS 3-4 HOURS LATER???

[Marianne2]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 8:14pm

Connecticut isn't that far. It really depends on where they live. Like they could just live over the boarder in Greenwich or somewhere like that. But, I agree that it is insane to blame people for a glitch in the system and report them for that.

[ZellMorrowsPledge]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 8:17pm

Marianne2 said: "Connecticut isn't that far. It really depends on where they live. Like they could just live over the boarder in Greenwich or somewhere like that. But, I agree that it is insane to blame people for a glitch in the system and report them for that.

 

" I suppose it isn't that far depending on where you live, but that lady is just insane

 

[gypsy101]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 8:18pm

lol Connecticut is like right by the city. but I agree that that's ridiculous of that woman to file that complaint.

[Elder Katt]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 8:19pm

Those tweets are unbelievable. Sorry that you have to deal with teaching your daughter a life lesson about things not always working out, lady. 

I do hope, though, that they can figure out a way to fairly filter out time-wasters who can't actually make it in on time. Although...the cynic in me thinks that they can turn those "unclaimed" tix around for full price and make a neat little profit. Hoping that wouldn't be the case.

 

[NJ_BroadwayGirl]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 8:22pm

I wonder how many "winner" emails were sent. So many that they couldn't cancel the lotteries for the next few days and make good for those folks?

 

I'm sure I would be very, very upset if I thought I had won and had it taken away. But that troll on Twitter from CT should go back to guarding a bridge somewhere. 

[MusicAndPassion]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 8:31pm

CT is totally doable by car from anywhere in the state. Heck, I've driving from the Boston area to Manhattan in 3 hours 5 minutes. I average 3 and a half hours each drive (about once every two months) without traffic. I'm sure almost anybody interested in that radius, in all directions, tried for the lottery today. Philly, upstate NY, lots of Long Island and Westchester, Connecticut, Jersey, Pennsylvania... The time of the "drawing" and curtain/pick up drastically changes everything. I have friends in New Hampshire that were planning on looking into immediate flights out of Manchester if they won. This show is clearly a phenomenon that's starting to sweep the nation. 50,000 on day one was just the beginning... if it continues again. 

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 8:36pm

MusicAndPassion said: "CT is totally doable by car from anywhere in the state. Heck, I've driving from the Boston area to Manhattan in 3 hours 5 minutes. I average 3 and a half hours each drive (about once every two months) without traffic. I'm sure almost anybody interested in that radius, in all directions, tried for the lottery today. Philly, upstate NY, lots of Long Island and Westchester, Connecticut, Jersey, Pennsylvania... The time of the "drawing" and curtain/pick up drastically changes everything. I have friends in New Hampshire that were planning on looking into immediate flights out of Manchester if they won. This show is clearly a phenomenon that's starting to sweep the nation. 50,000 on day one was just the beginning... if it continues again. 

 

"

 

Keyword is without traffic, which there almost always is during rush hour. 

 

[aaaaaa15]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 8:38pm

Making people pay just to enter the lotto seems wrong. The whole reason rush/lotto was introduced to Broadway was so that people who probably don't have enough money to give $356 to charity a year get to see and engage with theatre. 

[NJ_BroadwayGirl]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 8:42pm

People do really need to be realistic about traveling (driving) to NY from anywhere beyond a 2 hour radius at the drop of a hat. If there's a 7:00 curtain, finding out that you won at say 4:15 really isn't much time with rush hour traffic in basically all directions. I just can't imagine people entering a lottery with tens of thousands of others and then sitting there with keys in hand, email open ready to go!

 

And people talking about flying - hello getting through security and then getting from JFK to the Richard Rodgers - no way. I'm only engaging in this because I truly cannot believe how people think sometimes. 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 8:47pm

 "I average 3 and a half hours each drive (about once every two months) without traffic."

What time of day is that?  It's perpetual rush hour in Boston.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 9:03pm

gypsy101 said: "Lizzie, that's looks like exactly what the email says."

 

What I was saying is that "according to twitter" is a weird and imprecise phrase. It's only accurate if, say, the Twitter CEO said something or Twitter itself made a policy change. I had nothing to say about On Your Feet except that I wanted to link to that tweet with the screenshot of the email.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 9:15pm

NJ_BroadwayGirl said: "People do really need to be realistic about traveling (driving) to NY from anywhere beyond a 2 hour radius at the drop of a hat. If there's a 7:00 curtain, finding out that you won at say 4:15 really isn't much time with rush hour traffic in basically all directions. I just can't imagine people entering a lottery with tens of thousands of others and then sitting there with keys in hand, email open ready to go!"

 

You are truly underestimating the passion people have for this show.

 

I see what you meant now, Liz. Wouldn't that have been weird if Twitter themselves had reacted to the outrage.

[MaddieBB12]

Posted: 1/5/16 at 9:24pm

I agree with whoever mentioned NJ. I live twenty minutes from NYC, half an hour on a "bad day" (longest ever was an hour during rush hour AND an accident on the helix). I like being able to enter the lottery because I know I can make it in time (though it is impractical for those who aren't to be entering). 

 

ETA: 50K! FIFTY THOUSAND PEOPLE???? If every entrant saw "Fun Home", if would be sold out for TWO AND A HALF MONTHS. IN ONE DAY.

Updated On: 1/5/16 at 09:24 PM