Hamilton Cancellation Line- Page 107

[sarahb22]

Posted: 6/6/16 at 12:18pm

MinervaMoon said: "sarahb22 said: "In other news, those who don't feel like braving the lottery but wouldn't mind seeing 'Hamilton' for $10, there's this:

https://www.prizeo.com/prizes/lin-manuel-miranda/your-shot-at-hamilton-tickets?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=%2FENfeupTPL5&utm_campaign=linmanuelmiranda&utm_content=hamilton

The funny thing is that outright buying the two house seats for $10,000 gives you a further advantage in winning the overall prize. Imagine the same person winning even more tickets and the backstage tour, etc."

Out of curiosity, I looked up the Hispanic Federation, and it turns out it's run by 'Louis Miranda'.  Is that Lin's father?

[haterobics]

Posted: 6/6/16 at 12:23pm

Not spelled like that, no. His father is Luis A. Miranda Jr.

[sarahb22]

Posted: 6/6/16 at 12:24pm

haterobics said: "Not spelled like that, no. His father is Luis A. Miranda Jr."

True, but I looked it up and Lin's father is in fact the founder and head of the Hispanic Federation.  It's referenced in this article:

http://www.amny.com/opinion/columnists/mark-chiusano/in-the-room-where-it-happens-1.11590426

Whoever wrote the article I read about the Hispanic Federation spelled Luis' first name incorrectly. 

Updated On: 6/6/16 at 12:24 PM

[Carly6]

Posted: 6/6/16 at 2:22pm

Hey all! I just wanted to be another person who puts out the offer of paying for someone's ticket if they help me wait in line.

I can make my way to the city for any show, but work restricts me from having enough time to wait in line for a ticket. 

So basically: ABLE TO WAIT IN LINE AND WANT A FREE TICKET AND A SHOW BUDDY? PM ME PLEASE, THANK YOU, I'LL BE THE BEST DATE EVER

[ashk8177]

Posted: 6/6/16 at 3:36pm

schubox said: "ashk8177 said: "Besides LIn, does anyone know if any cast members are out on designated days? I saw it on a Thursday but Philiipa was out, just wondering if that is ongoing. Her replacement was fantastic though!

 

 

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No planned days no. It's kind of a crap shoot. It seems like most of the cast is showing up nowadays but you can never be sure.

 

Thank you! (-:

 

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Posted: 6/6/16 at 5:07pm

I am hoping to go next week, and I was wondering what time I should line up for a matinee. Also, how much are SRO seats?

[casedilla2]

Posted: 6/6/16 at 5:33pm

Hey everyone, a friend and I are thinking of waiting in line for the Tuesday 6/14 show next week. If anyone is interested in 2 tickets and would be willing to pay for our tickets in exchange for them, let me know and we can work something out! :)

[grummster]

Posted: 6/6/16 at 5:59pm

Hello, I too was at this past Saturday's matinee (June 4) and I read this board a great deal leading up to seeing Hamilton and wanted to contribute for anyone that may care, I know for a time I cherished any information I could get on the cancellation line from this board.

My wife and I had bus tickets purchased to show up at Friday midnight, hoping that was early enough to get into the Saturday 8pm show with any cancellation ticket, including premiums, but in the days leading up to then I realized that probably wasn't going to work out. Then the Lin news came down on Thursday and we decided to pulled the trigger on tickets within an hour knowing it was only going to get MUCH worse. It obviously did quickly and our Orch Side seats look like a steal now.

We still checked the line out on Friday at midnight when we got in and there were already about 35 people in line for Saturday and we decided it probably wasn't going to work out so we moved on. After the show I spoke with some cancellation line people we had met and they said that only 4 premiums and 7 standing-room-only were distributed in total (no $177 seats).

Everyone in line seemed to be as nice as advertised in my questioning and interactions with them. To be clear to anyone new to this board: the line is just you sitting on a NYC street for two days - that's it. Nothing special, no privacy, not illegal but not glorious. Also, keep in mind you are literally 100 yards from Times Square so it will be loud and bright at every moment. Midnight was about as busy as noon.

As for the show, well really no words do it justice, just incredible in every way. I'll appreciate forever having seen the original cast with no substitutions. If you are strongly considering waiting or paying, I'd have to suggest you do so. But I am also aware that tickets are now EVEN more insane that before.

Lastly, if you do wait, best of luck! I couldn't imagine you would regret doing so. Cheers.

[funhamilton_rent]

Posted: 6/6/16 at 7:51pm

If anyone reading this is seeing Hamilton before 6/12, I would literally do anything (reasonable and online) for you if you could swing by Row H of the side orchestra and see if the people sitting there are all in wheelchairs or with those who are in them. I'm seeing it 6/12 and I wound up getting the wheelchair seats for my entire family, and the box office said I'll "probably get to see it if everything checks out with the house manager". Super nervous! Thank you so much. PM me if you can help.

[RodneyRocK]

Posted: 6/6/16 at 8:04pm

Hey folks!  If anyone is planning to wait overnight this thursday or friday night, i'll be bringing along a foot pump for this very inexpensive camping mattress: http://www.amazon.com/Intex-Inflatable-Fabric-Camping-Mattress/dp/B00005BAIB?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01

I'll be happy to lend the pump to anyone who'll be braving the cancellation line with me and my fiance those nights!

[blaxx]

Posted: 6/7/16 at 1:21am

I'd pay for a non premium ticket (regular price) for anyone who can overnight to attend the evening performance on June 11, or either performance on June 15.

 

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post this, but that's what I would do  

[Chris11]

Posted: 6/7/16 at 1:56am

Will be in NYC from July 2 - 12 and looking for someone to line up for 2-3 standard tickets in any of those dates except weekend.

Compensation:

- Will pay for your standard Ticket/s.
- Give you extra $100 per ticket for you to buy any Hamilton paraphernalia you may want to buy or spend anywhere.

So if you and your friends are planning to line up for more than 20 hours (to make the chances of getting tickets higher) and watch on those dates, let me treat you to your tickets plus add in extra. PM me if interested.

Thanks!

[Em6]

Posted: 6/7/16 at 9:53am

This is why we have to line up for hours waiting for cancellation tickets or pay so much for resale tickets!  Ugh!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/opinion/stop-the-bots-from-killing-broadway.html

[schubox]

Posted: 6/7/16 at 9:58am

Em6 said: "This is why we have to line up for hours waiting for cancellation tickets or pay so much for resale tickets!  Ugh!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/opinion/stop-the-bots-from-killing-broadway.html

 

"

Here's hoping. I don't think there's any way to really curb scalping unless you have very stringent rules on ticket purchasing. Limiting to 4 or so per purchase. Making everything will call with same ID and CC used to make purchase. But then people will complain about the inconvenience 

[Em6]

Posted: 6/7/16 at 10:00am

funhamilton_rent said: "...  if you could swing by Row H of the side orchestra and see if the people sitting there are all in wheelchairs or with those who are in them... 

 

"We sat in this row at the chairs that look like dining room chairs. We sat next to a gentleman in a wheelchair and a lady she was with.  I guess they opened it to the general viewers because there wasn't a lot of request for handicap access seating.  There were about 6 chairs, and only 1 viewer in a wheelchair.

 

[samanthapauli]

Posted: 6/7/16 at 10:50am

Hi everyone, 

I'm a newbie on here, but I've been reading and loving all the suggestions! I am from Canada and am thinking of going down July 1-4 and trying to see one of the shows in between those dates! I'm getting nervous and am wondering if I will have to wait two days in line? Would it be better to go on Thursday night and get in line for Saturday? 

It's just going to be me so if anyone else is going, I would love a buddy to kill the time and maybe help our chances. Willing to do whatever it takes, I am soo excited! Any suggestions are welcome! 

[ham4prez]

Posted: 6/7/16 at 11:02am

I did the cancellation over the weekend (6/2-6/4) with my husband, sister, and a friend (we were looking for 4 tickets total). We had quite the 48 hour line waiting experience and hopefully this information will help some of you in your own cancellation line planning. 

Quick and dirty timeline of events for those of you who want the short version:

Thursday 6/2 – Got on line at approximately 9pm. I think we were tickets 15-18 at the time.

Friday 6/3 – 5 premiums released and taken ahead of us throughout the day, which moves us up to tickets 10-13 in line. At 7:50pm, standard tickets start being released. 7 standard tickets are released, so we don’t get in for Friday.

Saturday 6/4 2pm matinee – We are now tickets 3-6 on line. 4 premium tickets are released for the 2pm show; the couple in front of us pass on them and so do we. The group immediately behind us takes them. Around 1:55pm, 2 standard tickets were released. The couple in front of us takes them and we move up to the front of the line. After that, 8 standing room only (SRO) tickets are offered. My sister and her friend take two of them and go into the show. My husband and I pass on SRO and decided to stay in line for the 8pm show (as do a couple of people behind us), so the remaining SRO tickets go to people further back in the line.

Saturday 6/4 8pm show – My husband and I are now tickets 1-2 for the evening show. No premiums were released for the evening show. At about 7:30pm, 4 tickets are released, so my husband and I are called into the box office along with the father and daughter pair behind us. We get 4 front row seats (aka unclaimed lottery tickets). From what we could tell, after us at least another 6 standard tickets got released. I also heard that some SRO tickets were given out, for a total of approximately 10-14 tickets released for the Saturday 8pm show.

So yes, you read that correctly – we waited 48 hours in the cancellation line for Hamilton tickets, and we weren’t the only ones. The line was at least 30 people long at all times Friday afternoon through Saturday night. Onto the details for those of you who care to read them…

When we got in line 9pm Thursday, the line was made up of (in ticket order) a woman looking for 2 standard tickets, two line sitters both looking for 2 premium tickets (4 premiums total), a family of 5 looking for 5 tickets anyway they could get them (premium or standard), a woman looking for 2 standard tickets, and a woman looking for a single standard ticket. We heard from that group that approximately 14 tickets had been released for the Thursday night show, so we thought there might be a chance we’d get in Friday night, but fully expected to be in line until the Saturday matinee show. As Thursday night progressed, more and more people got on line. A man looking for a single premium ticket showed up behind us around 11pm. A family of 5 (who flew in from Missouri just to do the cancellation line – kudos to them!) looking for any kind of tickets arrived at about 1am. Behind them I know there was a continued mixture of line sitters and patrons that continued to show up throughout the night and into Friday and Saturday.

Things to know – the line no longer goes to the left of the theater towards the Marriott Marquis hotel; it now lines up to the right of the theater under the awning towards the stage door. During show times, the line gets moved across the street under the Edison hotel sign. So if you show up to get in line when a show is going on, look across the street to figure out where to line up. I am pretty sure that the line will continue to be one line and not split into two for the different days for the foreseeable future (at least, that was the vibe we got over the weekend). Most people in line seemed very adamant about keeping it one line because they weren’t interested in a particular day. Rather, they planned to stay in line until they got tickets regardless of what day that meant they were waiting for. Also, the RTT staff comes out around 6-7am and takes a picture of the line, so make sure you are there and not at the bathroom when they take that picture; if there is any question over who was in line where etc. that is the picture they use as a reference.

Overall, the line self polices itself. While people are friendly and it is fun to form a community with those near you, people are definitely extremely aware of where they are in line and sometimes it can get a bit tense. We were towards the front of the line for the majority of our 48 our wait, and we had people further back in line regularly coming up and counting us, asking us over and over again how many tickets and what ticket type we planned on purchasing, and sometimes even questioning if we had actually been there the whole time (which is why the picture they take comes in handy), etc. People were generally fine with people getting out of line briefly to use the bathroom or go grab food, but my advice is to leave for no longer than you have to. We had a woman further back in line who tried to get two men in front of her thrown out of the line because she thought they were gone too long getting dinner (despite the fact that the line had previously agreed to letting people go get food). The issue resolved itself amicably, but it was a tense moment. My group made sure we kept our breaks to an absolute minimum and that we always had 2 out of the 4 of us in line because no one would advocate for us better than ourselves. That being said, in general everyone was friendly and it was a positive experience (well, as positive an experience as sitting on the streets of NYC for 48 hours can be). We bonded with those nearest to us in the line, kept checking in with each other to make sure people were doing okay, and we were all genuinely happy for one another and cheered when people got their tickets. 

Pre-planning tips: We planned to get down to the city on Thursday 6/2 and stay in line until we got tickets. We booked a room at The Row hotel for Thursday through Sunday. It was a good location for cancellation line purposes. The Row is right around the corner on 8th Ave and cheaper than The Paramount (the hotel right across the street from RRT). If you are from out of town, we highly suggest booking a hotel room nearby. That way you have a bathroom/shower/bed to use on your quick breaks and a place to keep supplies. We packed enough supplies to be online all weekend if necessary (which it turns out it was). We highly suggest you bring some kind of mat/pillow to sit on since chairs are no longer allowed (side note – there were one or two people on line who pulled chairs out and used them and they were only reprimanded by the theater once as far as I can tell. I really think the enforcement of that rule depends on the RTT staff who happens to be in charge that day). We also suggest snacks, bug spray (we got SO many bug bites), sunscreen (depending on time of day and where you are you might be in direct sunlight sometimes), cleansing wipes (it can get hot and grimy sitting on the sidewalk), external phone charger, and some form of entertainment (books, cards, etc.). 

Good luck to everyone who braves the cancellation line before Lin leaves! I imagine it will continue to be crazy on the weekends. I genuinely never thought I would actually have to wait in line 48 hours to get in, but I guess the joke is on me. I also think this past weekend was unusually low on ticket releases (especially for the Sat. matinee), which didn’t help things. The show was, of course, amazing, and therefore I don’t regret the 48 hour wait at all. We ended up having the entire cast with no understudies for our Sat. evening show (and the matinee also had the entire cast), so that was the icing on the cake.

Updated On: 6/7/16 at 11:02 AM

[blaxx]

Posted: 6/7/16 at 7:31pm

I hope you don't take this the wrong way but, wasn't there a time when you thought that buying full price resale tickets was better than waiting 2 full days in line?

I'm really considering doing this, yet it sounds so extreme. You came so close to getting in Friday, however.

[Lisa-upstate]

Posted: 6/7/16 at 7:55pm

ashk8177 said: "Besides LIn, does anyone know if any cast members are out on designated days? I saw it on a Thursday but Philiipa was out, just wondering if that is ongoing. Her replacement was fantastic though!

 She had posted on twitter that she had injured her hand- they have no plan to be out certain days 

 

"

 

[Lisa-upstate]

Posted: 6/7/16 at 8:02pm

I went to see the show Thurs night :)

I had no ticket until 40min before Showtime when I jumped on a stubhub tix for $440 plus fees. I had front row of Mezz...the place is so small there isn't a bad seat really. I had great view and loved it! To those willing to fly in and stay out on street for two days or more-check stubhub and ticketmaster from your phone starting 75min before Showtime. Tix will start to move and Mezz can be had for about the price of the stand-by lines premium tix. You then go to print them on 8th floor of neighboring Marriott in the business center( total costs were $2.50) and then head in to see the magic!

[blaxx]

Posted: 6/7/16 at 8:14pm

Lisa-upstate said: "I went to see the show Thurs night :)

I had no ticket until 40min before Showtime when I jumped on a stubhub tix for $440 plus fees. I had front row of Mezz...the place is so small there isn't a bad seat really. I had great view and loved it! To those willing to fly in and stay out on street for two days or more-check stubhub and ticketmaster from your phone starting 75min before Showtime. Tix will start to move and Mezz can be had for about the price of the stand-by lines premium tix. You then go to print them on 8th floor of neighboring Marriott in the business center( total costs were $2.50) and then head in to see the magic!

Great tip - thanks!

 

 

[ham4prez]

Posted: 6/7/16 at 9:42pm

blaxx said: "I hope you don't take this the wrong way but, wasn't there a time when you thought that buying full price resale tickets was better than waiting 2 full days in line?

I'm really considering doing this, yet it sounds so extreme. You came so close to getting in Friday, however."

Full price resale tickets average about $1000 each and we needed 4 tickets, so that means it would've cost us approximately $4000 to get us all into the show if we went that route to get tickets. Four standard tickets through the cancellation line costs $708. Even including the cost of the hotel for three nights, which was about $550, that brings our total cost up to $1258 for 4 people to see the show. For us, it was worth the wait in line to save approximately $3800 (we probably saved more considering the rise in resale prices since Lin announced his end date). Obviously, we wished we had gotten in sooner and would have loved to not wait 48 hours - and like you said we almost did get in on Friday - but for whatever reason this past weekend had fewer cancellation tickets available for various shows. 

I guess it comes down to time vs. money. We didn't have the money to spend, so we sacrificed time instead. 

[MyFavoriteBrunette]

Posted: 6/8/16 at 4:26am

 Anyone know what happened here?

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1093670&dt=9

i resigned to the idea of trying the line again for my sis.  These were the days I was planning to dedicate to it but it just seems like it's some David Blaine physical endurance mind trick now.  One that I'd fail at miserably!  LOL!  

I love the comfort of my bed right now and glad not to be trying to get comfortable outside the RRT.  And again, it's cold out!  I was at Citifield tonight for a concert and I was freezing.  Most girls were dressed like it was 90 degrees.  Teeth chattering.

Hope everyone in line right now is good.  

 

[urbanseity]

Posted: 6/8/16 at 9:14am

Hi! I received a cancellation line ticket in row H and everyone in my row except for one was in a wheelchair. A woman was sitting in a spot the wheelchair would go since they are removable seats but they moved her to the front mezz section. So they will not kick you out if a handicap person does show up but they may move you depending on space and seating situation. 

[cascade]

Posted: 6/8/16 at 1:53pm

Hi! If anyone is planning on doing the cancellation line as a single anytime from June 12 through July 9, except for Wednesday or Sunday matinees, I'd be happy to pay for your (non-premium) ticket along with my own. I've braved the line twice (got in once, didn't get in the second time) and know how it can be, so I salute those of you still trying, haha. Anyway, if you're interested please PM me!

Updated On: 6/8/16 at 01:53 PM