You Might Be Able To Score 'Hamilton' Tickets In Chicago Online After All
By Stephen Gossett in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 12, 2016 7:39PM
When tickets for Hamilton in Chicago went on sale in June, many ran the exhausting ticket-search gauntlet only to find themselves empty-handed or (worse) victimized by scammers. If you were one of the unlucky many who didn’t score a ticket, there may yet be a glimmer of hope: Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller told Tribune theatre critic Chris Jones that more tickets were being made available on Monday and the next couple of following days.
Apparently, Hamilton pulled a Chance the Rapper and went after those obstreperous little scalper bots. Seller said that ticket buyers who exceeded the allowed quantity were refunded and the tickets would be made available again. "It is not thousands of tickets but it is a significant number,” he said, according to Jones.
Obviously, “keep checking the site and hope you get lucky” isn’t the most reassuring plan of action, but with Hamilton mania having reached fever pitch, that’s probably the best we could have hoped for, at least for now. As the Trib mentions, another large block of tickets for 2017 shows is expected to be released sometime before mid-October.
We reached out to Broadway in Chicago for details about ticket quantities and dates, but they did not return requests for comment.
On the bright side, if you fail again to score tickets this time around—and didn’t score access to Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda’s upcoming (sold-out, natch) appearance at Chicago Humanities Festival—there’s always Alexander Camelton, the adorable young camel that was born in May at Lincoln Park Zoo. Camelton released a statement on Monday reminding the public that a zoo visit remains cost-effective and refreshingly hype-averse.