The introduction & curiosity of the show didn't start for me did start until I saw an SNL skit that mentioned it back in January "Have you seen Hamilton? You haven't seen Hamilton?" So the next route I chose was google "Hamilton Broadway" AH!!! Lin-Manuel! The guy who did In The Heights then like an innocent, looking for a ticket. Sold Out. StubHub... Rear Mezz $290?!?!? Are you crazy! Thought this since I've been paying $100 and under to most of the Bway shows I've seen this year. Decided to listen to the cast recording. Once, twice, thrice...again and again. I was interested in everything I was listening to. There were two close sisters, a love triangle, a war, Washington, an affair? OOOH! Blackmail! OMG! Their son! Why am I crying over Alexander Hamilton?!?! I'm a grown-ass woman!
All I wanted was a ticket to see the show but those $290 ridiculous seats went to $500+ after the Grammy performance. So I kept waiting for a miracle, LOL!
I tried to hold back but I did watch Act 1 of the bootleg in April when it was on YouTube for a weekend. My husband scolding me "why are you spoiling it for yourself". It's not like I was gonna pay $500 for each of us to go. I ended up falling asleep watching the bootleg! I thought maybe the show itself wasn't all that but the cast recording was?
Well, that Saturday I learned Johnathan Groff was leaving and just had to see him in it, to me he had the funniest lyrics! How could I miss him? So there I was, sitting in rear mezz watching the show. And it was soooooo much better live than the bootleg video. The lighting the energy. Nope! I didn't fall asleep.
Updated On: 7/9/16 at 12:47 PM