@doschicos - I got an email from Broadway. com for August 15-Nov. 5 block.
Thanks for the response, @teriwtt. I posted on 11/10 that that block was for sale (#521) per email received from the Hamilton website. You should sign up for emails, too, if you are interested to get first shot.
I like what you did there, @doschicos!!
@doschicos - we live in the Chicago area, so it will be our home base for seeing it now. We have tickets for the week before Christmas (2nd time for D1 and I, and first time for H and D2). Then have tickets the week of July 4th (3rd time for D1 and I, and first time for her roommate who will be visiting).
@morrismm - Pure luck to get the tickets. I got the email that a new batch of tickets had opened up for Aug - Nov 2017. I was searching on 1 computer and phone while my son searched on another computer. We could never get anything better than the last few rows of rear Mezz. I kept seeing a box for Amex Preffered Seating but didn’t know the password to access them. I called Amex to ask what the password was and the incredibly nice lady not only gave me the password she offered to help me look for tickets. She spent over an hour looking, even called the box office, and somehow these 4 tickets in center orchestra popped up. I was/am incredibly grateful. My DS says he wants that credit card when he grows up. LOL
Am going to take the Hamilton soundtrack with us on TG and hoiday car trips to distant relatives in the the hopes that S2 and Dh will see the light and realize that they really need to see Hamilton. S1 is a Hamilton fanatic and saw the OBC in March (the same night another CC friend was there!) while he was in NYC for work. He and I can sing along in the car on Friday. If he ever moves back East, I will be bugging him for crash space so he and I can go see shows.
My daughter and I listened to the cast recording NONSTOP on our college road trips this past summer! 
We always take our out of town guests to Valley Forge National Park, so today was no exception. It was the first time I’d walked the park since viewing the documentary, so it was so cool to see Washington headquarters again and see A.Ham’s room as Washington’s “right hand man”.
We’ve got tickets for March. Going to take D and H to see the show. S is tagging along to visit NYC. Going to rent something from VRBO for 3 nights. Can’t wait!
SurfCity, we used to live in King of Prussia and walked at Valley Forge a couple of nights a week. Watching the documentary brought back good memories!
I am glad they are starting to stream shows, like I said almost every performance of a show has its own special charms, but seeing something like the original broadway cast of a hit show is special, too, because you are sharing in the special magic that lost lucky enough to see it did (I saw “The Producers” about a month after it opened, got tickets very early in its tryout period, and hit paydirt…). That doesn’t mean that tours are ‘inferior’ or local professional versions are not worth seeing (there is a local theater here, the Papermill playhouse, that puts on productions as good as you would see in a typical broadway production), just saying that special performances are just that, to have a taped or filmed performance of Richard Kiley in his prime doing Man of La Mancha would be great, as it would to see the revival with Brian Stokes Mitchell:).
One of the main reasons I think this is important is it helps stoke the fire for the future, and hopefully also that people will see what geat drama and musicals look like, as opposed to, to be brutally honest, some of the smaltz put out there to basically appeal to tourists and the like (kind of like to me people eating at the Olive Garden in Times Square, when there are probably at least a dozen restaurants within a short walk that have real italian food and are cheaper), for a while it looked like Broadway was going to become Disneyworld theme park in terms of what was playing…
(and no, I am not out of hand dismissing Disney musicals, the Lion King in many ways was inventive and original, it wasn’t totally treacle)
here is a twist to make your pre show experience more exciting…
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/11/27/broadway-hamilton-pickpocket/
HAMILTON MIXTAPE WHOOOOOO
Downloaded the prerelease tracks earlier, but the entire album is now available. So looking forward to the morning commute!
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Speaking of Disney, the soundtrack to Disney’s Moana currently playing in theaters has Lin-Manuel Miranda of Hamilton fame as one of its composers.
^^^ And a singer. He does one of the songs, Chris Jackson does another. The movie and music are pretty good. Finally, a Disney princess that doesn’t need a prince to help her do something…
It’s off topic, I guess, but I made this list back when Frozen came out:
Disney princesses saved by their prince (directly or via True Love’s Kiss): Snow, Cindy, Aurora, Ariel, Jasmine, Belle
Disney princesses saved by their own agency, with much princely assistance: Mulan
Disney princesses saved by a horse: Rapunzel
Disney princesses whose movie I haven’t seen: Pocohontas
Disney princesses saved by their own agency, with much assistance from a prince AND anthropomorphic animals: Tiana
Disney princesses saved by their own agency, without an adult prince’s help, albeit substantially assisted by her brothers, who are technically princes: Merida (who counts for some reason, although her movie was Pixar)
Disney princesses saved by their own agency, without a the help of a prince of any kind: Elsa (and let’s now add Moana)
Disney princesses saved by their sister: Anna
I’ll take Mulan over Elsa any day as a role model. I don’t get the Frozen hype. Haven’t seen Moana yet.
Hamilton tickets for the San Francisco show go on sale on 12/5 for AmEx holders, and 12/12 for everyone else. Will be open in SF from March - August. Hoping to get tickets on Monday and be able to go in the summer!