Post #24,999: My Shot

A touring company of Hamilton is up at the Pantages in Hollywood through the end of the year and I managed to score two great seats for last night for $200 each. So now first, you ask yourself if the show could be worth $400 plus the $20 I paid to park. Then you note that online "ticket resellers" (nicer term than "scalpers") are asking $700 apiece for seats in that area and you have to ask if the show could be worth foregoing a possible $1000 profit.

It's a switch on the old Groucho and Chico Marx exchange — "How much do you get for playing? How much do you get for not playing?" In this case, it's how much do you get for not going to see Hamilton?

Amber and I went and felt it was very much worth the $400. I don't know about the $1000 but we both thought it was a terrific show, well worth the accolades and fuss. I expect to enjoy it even more when I have time to play the cast album, something I usually avoid doing until I've seen a show for the first time. There were plenty of lyrics I missed and would like to hear.

I don't think I liked any one song or one aspect of the show more than another. Its cohesive properties were impressive — the way the narrative unfolded, weaving in and out of various styles and levels of seriousness.

Playing Alexander Hamilton was a gent named Michael Luwoye who I gather played the part on Broadway for a while. It's hard to imagine anyone doing more with the role but that was true of most members of the cast. A gent who was walking out before us was telling his companions he'd seen the original cast in New York and what we got out here was every bit as good. I can believe that.

Not much more to add except to say that in the past when I've gone to see the big smash hit that everyone was raving about, I've been disappointed. It was nice to not be disappointed in the least this time.

And now you may be wondering what's going to be in Post #25,000. Well, as they say in Hamilton, just you wait. Just you wait.