Pizzagirl, besides the cold of Jan and Feb on Chicago, travel can be dicey then. I think the winter performances should belong to you hardy northerners.
I got 2 tickets!!! They’re balcony seats, but in the center, and did not have to pay an arm and a leg, so I’m happy. My hubs has a few sets of good quality and small binoculars we’ll be taking with us…
We were also limited to Christmas break and spring break, because of D’s schedule - she’s the driving force behind wanting to see the show - but I managed to get the date I want over Christmas break.
I gave up on the Broadway in Chicago site after waiting and being told to “sit tight” over an hour… Downloaded the Ticketmaster mobile app, because D read on twitter that people were having better luck with that.
Signed up for an account, looked for the date I wanted, and less than ten minutes later, had two seats together.
I was willing to pay a little more for closer seats but apparently they were sold out by then (or being resold on StubHub for a gazillion bucks.)
The whole process was actually less frustrating than I’d thought it would be, thank goodness.
I also bought tickets to see Book of Mormon in July… my neighbor saw it and liked it a lot. Something to do on a July evening in Chicago…
“Pizzagirl, besides the cold of Jan and Feb on Chicago, travel can be dicey then. I think the winter performances should belong to you hardy northerners.”
I can take a train from my suburb to downtown, and just walk or cab to the theater.
BeeDAre, glad for you! I wasn’t limited to a particular time of the year so I was checking all possible dates - but it took me all day to get the tix I did. I just went off and on all day long, went down to 2 tix to see if that would help (it still didn’t) and then surprisingly, late afternoon, the interactive map came back up and I could select my tix. I’m in the mezzanine.
Ah, @pizzagirl, I’m a little jealous!
It took me less than two hours though. I thought, briefly, about seeing if i could get better seats for another date, but this date was ideal for us, so I decided to just be happy with the balcony and be done with it. D also said she was completely fine with balcony and we’d borrow my husband’s binoculars… (He’s an amateur astronomer and has very good binoculars!)
I’m also still thinking I might try and see the show in NYC one day in the future and hoping the frenzy for tickets dies down someday soon…
As for going to downtown Chicago in January, imo, it’s an ideal time. Fewer tourists, fewer people on the train and in restaurants…
Unless it’s below freezing, it’s really not a bad walk from the train stations to State Street, where the theater is.
If it is bad outside, then just a short ride via taxi.
So happy we now live a ten-minute walk to our local Metra station, which runs on the weekends. Makes getting into the city much more pleasant. It would take a really bad storm to keep us from making it into the city for a December show.
“Pizzagirl, besides the cold of Jan and Feb on Chicago, travel can be dicey then. I think the winter performances should belong to you hardy northerners.”
Tens of thousands of people commute from the suburbs to downtown Chicago every day of the week throughout the entire winter, so I feel confident I can handle one matinee :-). TBH it wouldn’t have even occurred to me to think about potential weather issues in selecting Hamilton tickets. That’s why I have a coat, hat and gloves!
I’ll be flying from Texas. Didn’t want to risk flight delays, ice, snow, etc.
Got it, though frankly the worst flight delays I experience tend to be in September for some reason.
I don’t want to continue to hijack this thread about the weather, but to someone who lives in Texas, a January or February trip to Chicago is like someone from Chicago deciding to take a vacation to Phoenix right now. Let those who are acclimated and own the proper outerwear enjoy the Hamilton performances tickets! A small reward for dealing with the cold! (Words from someone who grew up in Illinois.)
We really had only one weekend that our whole group could travel to see the show, so I think we did well to get tickets at all.
If anyone is willing to buy the $497 tickets, there are some mid-week winter performances with decent availability.
The amazing part of this is, as someone already mentioned, this tremendous demand for tickets is not even for the original Broadway cast. I read an interview that said there would not be any “celebrity” casting in Chicago. So all the buzz for “just” the show. I’m not saying that it’s not worth the buzz…just interested in the show going on and on growing into more of a phenomenon.
I guess for me the “magic” time was last fall, in the month or so after the release of the cast album, when all of us who hadn’t yet seen the show were discovering the lyrics and the performers for the first time.
“We really had only one weekend that our whole group could travel to see the show, so I think we did well to get tickets at all.”
Agree. I wasn’t restricted at all on my days/times and I still didn’t get my tix til late afternoon yesterday!
My intrepid husband landed 4 mezzanine seats for a December weeknight! We can’t wait.
By the way, did you all catch LMM’s funny tweet about him not being the IT guy for TicketMaster? It’s worth moseying over to Twitter for a laugh 
Actually, Phillipa Soo will be reprising her role as Eliza when it premieres in Chicago, but I think she’ll only be here a few months before she moves on to another commitment. Around these parts, some people are considering her a celebrity. =D>
I’d expect it will be a lot of fun for her to sing to the hometown crowd, too. Local girl makes good!
@CCMThreeTimes - yes I saw the tweet, as well as the one of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s sign that said, “We don’t have Hamilton tix. We do opera.”
If you google Lyric Opera of Chicago and Facebook and scroll down to the post from 11:37AM yesterday, you can see the picture.
Got 'em! Mid-October. Center orchestra seating. Cost an arm and a leg. And worth every penny. 
I’m glad I made my husband listen to the cast album in the car on our way to visit our daughter at school over the weekend. I’m not sure he would have been so willing to pay the StubHub price for tickets if he hadn’t had the chance to listen to the whole performance from beginning to end. (And watch me laugh and cry and sing along with every song.)
Amelie, her next project, opens in L.A. on December 4th so my guess is that she won’t be in Chicago for long. Have they been advertising that she will be in Chicago?
I just can’t find anything online except here that talks about Phillipa opening in Chicago. Where did you hear this delicious gossip ?
Re Texans in Manhattan: I was there for Snowzilla, which cancelled our dinner at Le Bernardin and our show (not Hamilton thank God!).