Hamilton Cancellation Line — Page 23

"Come to find the man that arrived at midnight was there for the sole purpose of selling his #7 space. So the random services are out there already and yes, the plot thickens!"



Wow. I don't even know what to say about this...The plot does thicken. If I were in line, I'd be pssed though.



"I would expect it to get worse because of warm weather, vacations, school breaks, Tony awards, BUT anything could happen between now and your trip. The theater could change the way they distribute these tickets. Line sitters could be banned. The police could decide to disperse the line during the overnight hours. A gas leak could demolish the theater. Not saying any of this is likely, but there is a lot that could change between now and then."



Ditto^ The Cancellation Line and anything the RRT does is volatile. You have to check back the week before. I predicted it would get crazy but couldn't even predict it would happen THIS quickly, with people lining up the night before, when just a few weeks ago, the earliest people were line-sitters at 3 a.m....Who knows what will happen in the summer, after the Tonys

Updated On: 3/16/16 at 01:14 PM

veerukka said: "I got on line at 5:05pm after work, and got a ticket at 8:02pm."



"Aw man! What luck!!! I'll keep saying it, my 17 hour wait for a pair of tickets netted me zero tickets as #9 in line. 11 tickets on my day. 3 singles and 4 pairs. Although I already lost at the line and bought resale for May after the ordeal, I still wanna try at the cancellation line again but for 1 ticket. I know when I see it once, I will want to see it again, so might as well try. And I felt that single tickets were better odds than a pair. I would have been off the line after 8 hours if I had just said yes to the single ticket that was offered to me.

So someone basically de facto got a line sitter for 12 hours for $25 total?

Anakela said: "So someone basically de facto got a line sitter for 12 hours for $25 total?


"YEAP. And 30 minutes of their own hard work"

I don't see how capping the cancellation line to 30 people will help. Thirty people can generate a lot of garbage.



Marriott Hotel Says No to This



The warmer spring weather has brought with it a perpetual tent city of fans living up to their impish self-description as "Hamiltrash": sleeping on cardboard boxes, getting food delivered to their spots in line, and breaking out games of chess on boards propped up by overturned milk crates.



http://www.vulture.com/2016/03/hamiltons-standby-line-capped.html

Updated On: 3/16/16 at 05:14 PM

Has it really been that bad out there? I mean, people know there are a limited number of tickets available. I'm guessing the problems are arising people people are getting there earlier and earlier and sleeping outside.



The photo used in the article is misleading though. It shows the lottery crowd, not the cancellation line crowd.

From the article:



""They're probably gonna put an end to this ****." The hardest ticket in town is likely about to get a lot harder."

With the way things are going with the cancellation line and the issues that are arising, it doesn't seem likely that the in person lottery will return with the warmer weather.

vdirects said: "These people are basically "waiting" in line for 24 hours in some cases.

"Got off of work--decided to stop by the line at 5pm and see what it was like this evening. Not terrible but I knew I didn't have a chance at 18th in line, but stayed to watch and see if its the same situation. Sitters had position #1 & #2 and the rest were non-sitters. At 7pm, as people arrived to line up for tonight's show, two of the same company line sitters "set camp" for tomorrow's cancellation line. 7pm. Again. Sooooo, if anyone is looking to use a line sitter, it looks like you gotta start booking them for 6pm or 5pm for sure. This 10pm and 12am just isn't cutting it. And where will that leave those who don't want to or can't afford to spend extra money on a line sitter. They'll have to start arriving at 4pm.

If what the article states is accurate, not only will capping the line limit be necessary but also the time one is allowed to line up, sitter or not.

A 30 person cap might be good for matinee days but on an evening performance even 20 is too many. There aren't that many tickets to go around.

i don't know if any evening performances were distributed prior to my arrival, but at 8pm, the two sitters got in and then two more (6 tickets total) I asked about standing room and the line attendant said the last two patrons were standing room.

Updated On: 3/16/16 at 08:52 PM

If you object to the craziness of the Hamilton cancellation line then stop posting here. As long as this thread stays active and on the first page of BW.com, the cancellation line will grow. Capped at 30 won't change much because it's the first 10 spots that people are fighting for.

That's how I got tickets in February. Would never have known about line sitters if I didn't read about it here from the critics of the sitters. Just saying.

This is absolutely insane. I was just there a month ago and was 4th in line at 5am.

I almost didn't go because it ended up being NY's coldest day on record since 1994 and the coldest Valentines Day ever (around -1 to 2F for most of the morning) but now I'm so glad I took the chance when I had it and actually got to see the show. I really can't believe how crazy it got just in the last few weeks, and we haven't even hit the Tonys or even the nominations yet. I've done a lot of waiting for a lot of Broadway shows but I think I draw the line at overnight. Good luck to any of you trying in the future, but I do think RR will be doing something about it soon. I don't know what the best solution would be and god knows what they'll come up with but I really don't think they'll let it continue this way (especially considering they did away with the live lotto when that got too big).

Do you think it's getting crazier because it's warmer out?

Only three weeks ago my friend was there at 9ish am and was 7th in line. We got in at 7:02.