So there's this obscure musical nobody cares about...

[telophase]

I am still shaking from the adrenalin, but I have Hamilton tickets for the touring company that comes to town in april/May. Ticketmaster was doing the special Verified Fan signup to offer them and I didn't get into the first round, and after I saw all the markups on StubHub I assumed I wouldn't get in, but I think they were squirting the authorizations out in small batches to avoid the servers going down, and I got mine an hour after sales opened. And then I had problems because I didn't realize that not allowing 3rd party cookies was going to FUBAR the experience, but once I figured that out, I was able to grab tickets for me, Toby, and Mom. And I even got them on the aisle! (I get claustrophobic when stuck in the middle of a row of seats.)

I mean, I am not as invested in this show as some people I know eyes f-list but the process of getting the damn things fired me up.

So now I get to see what all the fuss is about.

Comments

[jenett]

Congrats! That's not the cast I saw, so very curious about your commentary after!

(They do seem to be a decent job at getting tickets out in moderately sensible ways.)

[telophase]

Thank you! :D

Yeah, it's nice that the servers aren't slammed, but you'd think they'd TELL us that they'd be sending them out in rounds. I got an email last night that I'd been waitlisted and should additional tickets become available they'd text me, so I assumed that I wouldn't actually be able to get any. If I'd gone to lunch early and not been near a computer when I got the text, I'd have been seriously ticked off!

[larryhammer]

Yowsas!

[telophase]

This morning has been up and down for sure. XD

[oracne]

GO YOU!!!

[telophase]

Woo-hoo!

[yhlee]

Huzzah! I hope you enjoy it. :D

[telophase]

Thanks! :D

[golden_bastet]

Some years back, you could still get original B'way cast tickets, though maybe 6 mos in advance. And I was all like, "eh, it'll die down soon, and there'll be plenty of tickets to be had"...

Yeah, I'm still kicking myself about that. And I still haven't seen it. D:

I'd really like to see it because it's different, ya know? Although it's kind of not now. (But they are good with trying to get regular folk in to see it. I appreciate that.)

[telophase]

:) It's gotten enough talk that I do want to see it, just not enough to go to extraordinary measures, so I'm happy I got the tickets. I'm just worried now that it's going to fall victim to the overhype thing--sometimes when everyone I know is talking up a thing, I end up disappointed in it because I expected more. (Although Avatar: The Last Airbender, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Princess Tutu didn't fal victim to that, so I have hope.)

[rachelmanija]

I mean it's not like anyone on your flist stood in line for eight hours for tickets, named both her cats after it, and got a tattoo... oh wait.

[telophase]

Yeah, I don't expect that anyone around here cares about it at all. ;)