Hamilton Tour Ticket Prices — Page 3

I was reading comments on our Broadway Series Facebook page. This is our last weekend. Someone asked if they would sell the handicap seats if they hadn't been sold, to a nonhandicapped person. Our Broadway Series responded that you are allowed to purchase ANY SEAT that is clickable on the map including HANDICAPPED. So that explains why I made the comment that people sitting in the handicapped seats appeared not to be handicapped. I am kind of shocked by this. I always thought you would have problems if you purchased. From this statement from my series and reading the Assassins thread (where people had theatre response that they could purchase handicap/companion seats) may be this is a new thing. I still find it very surprising.

When it to comes to accessible seating for performances, I know having sold them over the phone, there is a specific phrasing that is used when a patron calls looking to buy accessible seating. By law, it is required that this phrasing be noted when making a purchase (both online and over the phone, I assume there's something similar for in person sales as well). At no time when the purchase is being made does the person purchasing them have to provide any specific reason as to why they are purchasing them. I know I generally ask patrons after we've gotten through everything if they use a wheelchair/walker/cane/etc that may require storing during the performance or if they will be using a wheelchair and will be staying in the wheelchair or would like to transfer to a seat.

Depending on the performance sales, sometimes accessible seating will be made available to the general public but only if the performance has sufficient accessible seating to provide should someone require it. I can't tell you how many people think that accessible seats (or companion seats) can just be sold off because there's no other options for non accessible seating. Does it happen that they could become available to the general public? Sure. Could they also not? Also yes.

Regardless, no one is trying to take advantage of anyone or is in so need of money that they'd offer an accessible seat just for the sake of a sale.

Updated On: 10/16/21 at 10:48 AM

TarHeelAlan said: "Apparently tickets in Philly are not moving very well. There's another discount, using code NWWeek3, that was provided after entering (losing?)the lottery. Tickets again are only $49, which I believe is $100 less than face value for an orchestra seat. Dates are 11/2-11/5, plus 11/7, all evening shows, and as of 9AM today there are still a good selection of seats available."

If they offered this for matinees I would be there. I can’t get to Philly at night.

RunnyBabbit said: "TarHeelAlan said: "Apparently tickets in Philly are not moving very well."

I’m not that surprised. The theatre they’re in this time has 800 more seats than the theatre they were in for the first stop in Philly, and it’s a terrible place to watch shows."

On a separate note, I am trying to find reasonable priced seats for Hadestown (which is selling well surprisingly). Literally every view for The Academy of Music on A View From My Seat is awful. I really don't want to spend $500 for four tour tickets but I might have to if we want to see the show from a full view seat.

ClumsyDude15 said: "AdotBurr - Definitely check out the Virtual Tour on the Kimmel Center website so you can see the view in real time:https://www.kimmelculturalcampus.org/plan-your-visit/virtual-tour/

My personal favorite places to sit are the Balcony or the Parquet Circle, but if you want to splurge - a Balcony Box or Parquet Box can be fun."

Wow this is so helpful!! THANK YOU!!!

It seems like a greedy move to have the show run for such a long engagement at the academy. I don't think covid is actual a big factor for low sales for the region.

I think the release on Disney plus killed a lot of the demand and most people who really wanted to see this have already had many opportunities from previous tours. This should have run for max 2 weeks.

adotburr said: "On a separate note, I am trying to find reasonable priced seats for Hadestown (which is selling well surprisingly). Literally every view for The Academy of Music on A View From My Seat is awful. I really don't want to spend $500 for four tour tickets but I might have to if we want to see the show from a full view seat."

I absolutely hate seeing shows at the Academy. They’ve improved the acoustics over the years, but they still aren’t as a good as a real theatre for musicals. And the sight lines are pretty terrible. Moving from the Merriam to the Academy was obviously a money grab since it sits more people, although having seen most of the Broadway tours, those extra seats are rarely filled.

My trick for spending less at the Academy depends entirely on how well the show is selling, and admittedly is easier for a single person that a group of 4. I’ll tend to wait until the last minute and then buy a partial view seat that is next to several open full-view seats. That way I can pay the lower price and then just move over a seat or two.

This obviously doesn’t work for a show like Hamilton that is still selling well, despite not being completely sold out (although last night’s show looked pretty close to sold out from my view). And I haven’t looked at availability for Hadestown.

They will also do rush tickets, usually around $30, and I’ve sat all over with those seats (center orch, side boxes, 3rd level center), but they have always been full view so far.



JBradshaw said: "In Philly are the lotto rush front row for $10?
The other rush prices are they all over the place? I’ve gotten emails for $29 rush and $30 something rush."

Lotto seats are $10 and front row. I’m not sure if the side orchestra seats are lotto seats, which they were during the last tour stop. Not to judge (while obviously judging), but the people sitting in side orchestra across the aisle from me didn’t exactly look like the lottery-entering type.

RunnyBabbit made some definite good points in their last two posts.

With subscribers, they were given the option to Swap-A-Show and I spoke to several people who swapped out of Hamilton having seen it the last time it was here and just not wanting to see it again. I did also speak to people who spent quarantine watching the Disney+ pro-shot and couldn't wait to see it live, so it's definitely both things.

I know Hamilton had been planned to come back here fall 2021 pre-shutdown and it just so happened to be our first show back after our 2020-2021 season was cancelled, so it was a well planned happy accident. As someone who went through the fall out of the shutdown (sans 6 months of furlough), it has been an absolute gift to speak to people who want to come to see shows and working Subscriber Services and seeing people coming to performances. I'm totally biased, but yeah, Hamilton has been a gift in it's own chaotic way.

Could the prices have been lower from the get go? Sure. I again think Hamilton is thinking of the pre-pandemic frame of mind and is just now slowly dropping the prices seeing as the interest in those high high costs just isn't there. Could they have been here a lot shorter of a period? Sure. I've noticed Hamilton (just from a look at the tour dates) rarely goes anywhere for less than 3 weeks time most likely due to how massive the show is. Having the show here has not only brought people back to the theater, but also local restaurants, hotels, etc so Hamilton I'm sure has had a positive impact beyond ticket sales.

Last night working a performance, I saw a little boy dressed as Alexander Hamilton and it made me just so happy and that to me is well worth the rest of it.

Updated On: 10/31/21 at 12:09 PM