I’m a tad obsessed with Broadway musicals. There are many cast recording albums that I have on repeat (Wicked, In The Heights + now Hamilton). It may be weeks or months since I’ve last listened, next thing I know I’m belting out at the top of my lungs one or two lines. Which then sets me down a path of listening to the album in it’s entirety a few times over. Anthony can only shake his head at me, laugh + then proceed to make fun of me. We have a good relationship like that. 🙂
In The Heights was my first musical on Broadway, we saw it in December of our first year in Jersey. It had won best musical that summer, so I asked my mom to get tickets for when they came to visit. It was spectacular. I was on the edge of my seat, listening to every word that was sung. Without a doubt, Lin Manuel-Miranda is a genius.
I remember scrolling on FB (cause let’s be real, after seeing In The Heights, I followed several actors + Lin) when Hamilton was Off-Broadway at Public Theater thinking I needed to see this show. At this same time, we were scrambling, trying to figure out what our future would entail. Fast forward to 2016, when Hamilton received all those Tony’s. It was impossible to get tickets!
I spent months entering the daily #ham4ham online contest, to win 2 tickets for Anthony + I to see Hamilton. I would get discouraged every time I received that rejection email. Then after spending a little time on the Hamilton website, I realized I could sign up for the email blast when they release tickets for 6 months out. So we didn’t pay a ridiculous amount of money for these tickets. If you want to see the musical in NY, I’d highly recommend signing up for that email.
All my ramblings to say that we saw Hamilton for our anniversary (or maybe it was for my birthday…or a Christmas gift…I did buy the tickets so long ago!). It was everything I thought it would be. I was a bit surprised that there is no dialogue beyond what’s on the cast recording. This was the first musical we’ve been to with that being the case.
