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Genuine question: why is it especially inaccessible to people with less money and opportunities compared to other Broadway shows?

It's on the West End now and they've actually done a fabulous job making it accessible to the masses. The tickets are at least in line with other shows and even cost less than many other big shows and they've utilised a ticketing system that prevents scalping. I can't get tickets to my club's football match because of cost and the ticketing system but I can certainly see Hamilton. I just kinda figured it was the same on Broadway.

Tickets definitely aren't cheap, though. Top price tickets will set you back £200+ unless you put in for the lottery.

West End tickets are a little out of control right now. Cheapest ticket to see 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie' (which could be the surprise winner at this years Olivier's...and a very good show) is £38 for a restricted view seat. Same for 'Young Frankenstein' (which has just cut the backstage staff wages by £65 per week) and 'The Grinning Man'.

Tickets to Hamilton on Broadway are currently sold out for months. Some resale tickets are available- I tried to find one ticket for a trip I'm taking in May and it would have cost me over $700. It's about to go on tour throughout the US and, in my city, you had to buy tickets for the entire Broadway series (about 6-7 shows) the previous 2016-2017 season to get early access. From my understanding, anyone who didn't do that has a snowball's chance in hell of getting tickets. So yeah, not accessible. At all.

Unless you’re a high school student from an underserved area, because so far as I know big blocks of tickets are still (rightfully) being set aside with a $10 ticket price for poor school kids.

That's just PR. Sorry.

The touring production does still have the $10 ticket lottery. That's how I saw it.

I don't know how much tickets cost on Broadway, but unless you live in the New York area, you would also have to factor in the cost of travel to New York, which for the majority of Americans is non-trivial due to distance. Until there's a touring show, a lot of people just can't afford to see it even if the tickets themselves aren't ridiculous.

There is a tour, though? I mean, it can’t go everywhere and tickets are still expensive, but a tour exists.

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Shows what I know! I hadn't heard there was already a tour. At least now more people can see it.

In KC, first dibs for tour tickets go to season ticket holders, so those are going to vanish instantly.

I'm going to London in April to visit family, and stalked ticketmaster for returned/newly available tickets for three weeks and got "reasonable" seats that way, but if I wasn't already on a planned trip to London... yeesh. My odds were going to be slim to none.

But the tour will only hit major cities. And in the US, a major city could be four hours away, which means taking off half a day of work, and getting a hotel.

So - still not really all that accessible.

But is it less accessible than other Broadway shows

Um....yes?
I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean by this.

OH, sorry, read that wrong. Um - i dunno if it's less, or not. If getting tickets is harder and/or they're more expensive than other plays, than yes.

I don't know a lot about Broadway shows other than I can't afford them and most of them don't come to the theatre closest to me, so....

Edited 2018-02-22 01:38 (UTC)

It exists but it's barely better than going to New York. Hamilton will be playing in my closest metro area next year and my mom and I were looking into getting tickets.

The only way to guarantee you would be able to go was to get season tickets for LAST season and roll over your subscription (the cheapest is $375 each season!).

They are currently letting people sign up for an email list if they have any season tickets available for this season and ONLY after all the season ticket holders have gotten the tickets they want, will they open tickets to the general public with the cheapest ticket going for at least $100.

And that's legally, scalping for Hamilton tickets has been crazy. I know they have the lottery, but honestly, the whole thing is Insane and if they actually cared about everyone being able to see it, they would film it.

I saw it last year in Los Angeles. Pretty cheap since I have season tickets to the theater. Less than $100. I realize that still isn't doable for some though.

Yes but the season tickets to the theater are expensive. And if I remember correctly they were only selling tickets to season ticket holders in Los Angeles. (I may be wrong on that.)

Buying the season is expensive since you have to do it all at once, but if you divide the individual ticket prices and you like going to the shows it's not that bad a form of entertainment. Compare to sports tickets, concerts and the like... Again, I realize many people can't scrape that much together and wish there was a way for everyone to enjoy them.

Late, but one of my goals in live is to be able to afford season tickets to the ballet. I can't yet, but in four years I should be able to, and I'm so excited. I love going to the ballet, but I just can't scrape up the money to pay for a full season at once.

There's a bunch of other productions besides the original now - in addition to the touring show, there's also productions in Chicago and London.

But also, just the fact that it's on Broadway doesn't make it any less accessible than any other Broadway musical.

I'm not a theater person or in the fandom, but I figured if Hamilton went on tour it would be a major national news story, so it's kind of surprising I'm only hearing about Chicago and the touring show just now (especially considering I did hear about the London show).

But holy crap those Chicago ticket prices are expensive! I had a very excellent seat for War Horse that cost me a hundred bucks, but with Hamilton I would be paying more than that for the worst seat in the house! The tour won't be coming to my city until 2019-2020, and maybe by then things will have calmed down a little.

I would say it's not any less accessible than any other NEW Broadway musical, since the older stuff has already been around (or made into a movie) and gets done by off-Broadway theaters, colleges, etc.

Yeah.

I also think it depends a little on point of view? At least for me, it kind of feels like... yeah, it's still a tough ticket, but it's also *much* more accessible than it was a few years ago. Like, by several degrees of magnitude.

But that's the same situation for all Broadway shows and doesn't make Hamilton less accessible.

Are a lot of other Broadway shows touting their inclusivity the way Hamilton is? I must have missed that.

I'm going to NYC in the summer and checked to see what tickets were going for. Hamilton was by far the most expensive, at $240. Dear Evan Hansen was next at $120. Half as expensive as Hamilton. The other shows were about $30 - $80. For the cheapest tickets. It's not accessible to the masses, especially those coming from out of town and paying crazy hotel prices.

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