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Post by welsh_tenor on Jun 14, 2018 21:00:10 GMT
It’s kind of a given that Swings and Standbys are amazing, but given the amount of lyrics in this show this is just mind blowing for the same week!
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Post by geeky101 on Jun 15, 2018 9:13:20 GMT
Giles' attendance really is curious, misses random shows every week. Hope he's okay and it's just a thing to protect his body and voice etc.
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Post by dazzerlump on Jun 18, 2018 11:53:58 GMT
Has anyone had issues with the ticketing system. I received a new card (but still have the one I paid on) and even after calling to inform them of this my email has arrived with the old details on it. Now I cant seem to get through to customer service after trying on 3 occasions today and I go tomorrow!! aargh!!
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Post by ensembleswings on Jun 18, 2018 12:01:47 GMT
dazzerlump If you still have the card you originally paid with then just take that one with you, it doesn't matter if it's expired it'll still work and produce your tickets. You only really have to change the card over if you no longer have the original payment card
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Post by crabtree on Jun 18, 2018 12:07:11 GMT
So how does the ticketing work, in a nutshell. I'm meant to be going to the matinee on 14th July but can't now - how on earth would I be able to transfer a ticket to a friend, without it going to waste?
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Post by Steffi on Jun 18, 2018 12:31:46 GMT
So how does the ticketing work, in a nutshell. I'm meant to be going to the matinee on 14th July but can't now - how on earth would I be able to transfer a ticket to a friend, without it going to waste? You can't transfer tickets. Ticketmaster will refund your tickets minus a small fee (I think £3) if you give them a call.
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Post by ensembleswings on Jun 18, 2018 12:41:40 GMT
So how does the ticketing work, in a nutshell. I'm meant to be going to the matinee on 14th July but can't now - how on earth would I be able to transfer a ticket to a friend, without it going to waste? You can't. You'd have to get a refund on the ticket through Ticketmaster (full face value minus the £3 admin fee) then they'll put the return back up for sale on the website.
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Post by crabtree on Jun 18, 2018 14:53:43 GMT
thank you, that's most helpful. I'm sad not to see the show, but life and economy gets in the way.
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Post by iamamazing on Jun 18, 2018 18:25:02 GMT
i'M GOING NEXT WEEK MY CARD DETAILS HAVE CHANGED WHAT NUNBER SHOULD I RING PLUS I HAVEN'T GOT THE ORIGINAL CARD I PAID IT ON. i'M A BIT WRORRIED.
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Post by indis on Jun 18, 2018 18:29:33 GMT
Question: as i read it i need my credit card i booked with to get my ticket? but what if i changed my credit card , and the old one does not exist anymore?
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Post by ensembleswings on Jun 18, 2018 18:30:37 GMT
iamamazing ring ticketmaster and get the payment card updated
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Post by iamamazing on Jun 18, 2018 18:34:16 GMT
iamamazing ring ticketmaster and get the payment card updated Thank you so much ☺️
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Post by indis on Jun 18, 2018 18:38:42 GMT
oh, just saw my contact payment details are already updated to the new card, lucky me
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Post by duncan on Jun 19, 2018 18:11:35 GMT
My card had changed and I'd totally forgotten it - relax folks, it didn't swipe and the usher asked if it was a new card, I said yes and they sent me to the box office.
No problem getting the tickets there - and they were real thick paper tickets rather than those till roll crap that come out of the ushers traffic warden device.
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Post by geeky101 on Jun 21, 2018 11:44:51 GMT
Marsha Songcome's leaving Hamilton on Saturday 28th July to do The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in Sweden.
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Post by poster J on Jun 21, 2018 14:47:21 GMT
Marsha Songcome's leaving Hamilton on Saturday 28th July to do The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in Sweden. Interesting - has she got a lead role? She's been on as Eliza a lot recently! I've only ever seen Rachelle though, and I'm at the show once more before Marsha leaves so am now hoping to see her rather than Rachelle! I wonder if that means Miriam will be bumped up to first cover Eliza and Angelica? Probably makes more sense to have someone else as first cover Eliza and keep her as second, as she goes on as Angelica fairly often.
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Post by ctas on Jun 21, 2018 15:08:54 GMT
Yes - she’s playing Esmeralda.
I believe they did a cover run with Christine Allado as Eliza recently, presumably to fill this gap if needed. Marsha has no more scheduled Eliza dates (she had a lot due to the time Rachelle Ann Go took off for her wedding) which is a shame, she was truly my favourite in the role!
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Post by crabtree on Jun 22, 2018 20:15:49 GMT
Sadly, I had to return a ticket for July a couple of nights back, but I have to say Ticketmaster did it with absolutely no fuss and a good friendly chat along the way. Most impressed.
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Post by Stasia on Jun 22, 2018 21:22:51 GMT
Speaking of returns, I have another sad story. Nothing to do with Ticketmaster, just my bank and coversion rates. When the recent booking period opened, my friend and I decided to book tix for the NYE (in Russia we do not celebrate Xmas as much, our main holiday is the New Year and there’s a long-going tradition to attend the Nutckracker ballet on this eve. So we decided that Hamilton may be a nice subsitute). I booked us a pair of £100 stLls seats frm my credit card. And later I noticed a pair of £75 front row seats so I got these and returned the first pair. I spent £200 and got back £197. But in Russian rubles I lost not £3 but £14 because of the exchange rates. Almos a theatre ticket price. No one to blame and we got better seats anyway, but I’n still a but gutted.
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Post by ellie1981 on Jun 23, 2018 12:31:08 GMT
Speaking of returns, I have another sad story. Nothing to do with Ticketmaster, just my bank and coversion rates. When the recent booking period opened, my friend and I decided to book tix for the NYE (in Russia we do not celebrate Xmas as much, our main holiday is the New Year and there’s a long-going tradition to attend the Nutckracker ballet on this eve. So we decided that Hamilton may be a nice subsitute). I booked us a pair of £100 stLls seats frm my credit card. And later I noticed a pair of £75 front row seats so I got these and returned the first pair. I spent £200 and got back £197. But in Russian rubles I lost not £3 but £14 because of the exchange rates. Almos a theatre ticket price. No one to blame and we got better seats anyway, but I’n still a but gutted. Can’t your credit card company refund you the rest? It happened to me once with a cancelled holiday booking where I paid in Euros. I lost out on nearly £100 in the refund on the exchange rate, but my credit card company reimbursed the rest when I called them.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2018 18:01:12 GMT
Sadly, I had to return a ticket for July a couple of nights back, but I have to say Ticketmaster did it with absolutely no fuss and a good friendly chat along the way. Most impressed. Can also vouch for the Ticketmaster lot being both helpful/making it easy to return, and the chap I spoke to in April being lovely and friendly. Top bantz as the kids say.
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Post by danb on Jun 23, 2018 18:07:50 GMT
Sadly, I had to return a ticket for July a couple of nights back, but I have to say Ticketmaster did it with absolutely no fuss and a good friendly chat along the way. Most impressed. Can also vouch for the Ticketmaster lot being both helpful/making it easy to return, and the chap I spoke to in April being lovely and friendly. Top bantz as the kids say. 😩 made me cringe a bit with your ‘top bantz’. Theres just no need ...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2018 18:14:02 GMT
Can also vouch for the Ticketmaster lot being both helpful/making it easy to return, and the chap I spoke to in April being lovely and friendly. Top bantz as the kids say. 😩 made me cringe a bit with your ‘top bantz’. Theres just no need ... it was a sarcastic 'top bantz' hence my use of 'as the kids would say' Jeez you try and make a joke...I forgot that isn't allowed in the Hamilton thread *bows down to the Holy Enshrined Musical* (that last part was a joke too)
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Post by squidward on Jun 24, 2018 2:07:08 GMT
Interesting that this thread seems to mainly be about tickets and seating these days. Not a lot of posts about the show itself. I wonder if that’s because it’s almost become a given that the show is a masterpiece or because there’s an element of worry that any other view might be very unpopular here on the board?
I was one of the underwhelmed. I think that was partially to do with having booked a year in advance, I had Ham-fatigue by the time I actually got to see it.
Also I couldn’t see past the mystery casting of Jamael Weston who I thought sucked a lot of the oxygen out of the show with his lack of charisma and chemistry with the rest of the cast.
It would be good to hear some other opinions alongside the ticketing and seating issues though. Just a thought...
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Post by showtoones on Jun 24, 2018 4:11:47 GMT
Interesting that this thread seems to mainly be about tickets and seating these days. Not a lot of posts about the show itself. I wonder if that’s because it’s almost become a given that the show is a masterpiece or because there’s an element of worry that any other view might be very unpopular here on the board? I was one of the underwhelmed. I think that was partially to do with having booked a year in advance, I had Ham-fatigue by the time I actually got to see it. Also I couldn’t see past the mystery casting of Jamael Weston who I thought sucked a lot of the oxygen out of the show with his lack of charisma and chemistry with the rest of the cast. It would be good to hear some other opinions alongside the ticketing and seating issues though. Just a thought... And see, I'm in the camp that loved Jamael as Hamilton (and I saw Lin do the role). Different strokes but i do agree with you that Hamilton fatigue is a thing, especially because that is all we heard about for a year. I actually think the whole cast is uniformly excellent.
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Post by danb on Jun 24, 2018 6:27:15 GMT
😩 made me cringe a bit with your ‘top bantz’. Theres just no need ... it was a sarcastic 'top bantz' hence my use of 'as the kids would say' Jeez you try and make a joke...I forgot that isn't allowed in the Hamilton thread *bows down to the Holy Enshrined Musical* (that last part was a joke too) Now now Emily we know Dan was kidding don’t we ! 🙄 (Pictures Emi in a baseball cap with a can of Monster on the go...ooh that’s quite street, which brings us straight back on topic.)😂😂😂
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Post by ellie1981 on Jun 24, 2018 7:36:13 GMT
Well I’m going for my 5th time this Wednesday. It’ll be the first real night out for my friend since having a baby in January (dad is reluctantly looking after child in place of watching football, but tough titty to him) and she has little idea about the show itself so I’m eager to see her reaction.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2018 7:54:08 GMT
Interesting that this thread seems to mainly be about tickets and seating these days. Not a lot of posts about the show itself. I wonder if that’s because it’s almost become a given that the show is a masterpiece or because there’s an element of worry that any other view might be very unpopular here on the board? I was one of the underwhelmed. I think that was partially to do with having booked a year in advance, I had Ham-fatigue by the time I actually got to see it. Also I couldn’t see past the mystery casting of Jamael Weston who I thought sucked a lot of the oxygen out of the show with his lack of charisma and chemistry with the rest of the cast. It would be good to hear some other opinions alongside the ticketing and seating issues though. Just a thought... I found it very refreshing and could appreciate its genius. But whilst I very much enjoyed it, to the point of returning a month later, I sit in the underwhelmed camp also. Mostly because of the rather bland treatment the title character received from Jamael. His in-experience shows. I did find on my second visit, 3rd row of the stalls, I could buy into his performance more, but from the royal circle I was disconnected from him and as a result the whole show. He tried hard but his performance doesn't translate past the front row and a result the show suffers.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2018 8:56:07 GMT
it was a sarcastic 'top bantz' hence my use of 'as the kids would say' Jeez you try and make a joke...I forgot that isn't allowed in the Hamilton thread *bows down to the Holy Enshrined Musical* (that last part was a joke too) Now now Emily we know Dan was kidding don’t we ! 🙄 (Pictures Emi in a baseball cap with a can of Monster on the go...ooh that’s quite street, which brings us straight back on topic.)😂😂😂 How did you accurately describe my Saturday night? Lads, innit.
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Post by Stasia on Jun 24, 2018 10:44:52 GMT
Interesting that this thread seems to mainly be about tickets and seating these days. Not a lot of posts about the show itself. I wonder if that’s because it’s almost become a given that the show is a masterpiece or because there’s an element of worry that any other view might be very unpopular here on the board? I was one of the underwhelmed. I think that was partially to do with having booked a year in advance, I had Ham-fatigue by the time I actually got to see it. Also I couldn’t see past the mystery casting of Jamael Weston who I thought sucked a lot of the oxygen out of the show with his lack of charisma and chemistry with the rest of the cast. It would be good to hear some other opinions alongside the ticketing and seating issues though. Just a thought... I’ve seen Hamilton 8 times so far. I think it is one of the biggest and the most amazing theatre experiences I ever had. But I don’t feel a need to post it here time after time mostly because of such posts as yours. The “omg I am underwelmed and I will keep telling people here instead of discussing the show I really liked in some other thread” rhetorics seems to me quite common here. And I see posts of such kind even more than I see “if you do not appreciate the greatness of Hamilton, you are a stupid loser” kind of posts. It’s ok to like or not like any shows. To feel overwhelmed or underwhelmed. But I don’t see a point in chewing one gum for so long especially if you didn’t like it taste from the beginning. (Just in case my English is struggling these days, I am trying to say that it is perfectly fine to post your opinions on any shows. But I personally don’t see any point in repeating the same “omg I’m underwhelmed” thing a few times. Also “people are not posti g smth because they aftaid of the reaction” is a very fresh idea!) If anyone needs more Hamilton related posts in your loves, there is a Hamilton West End group on Facevook with 10k+ subscribers. Overwhelmed/underwhelmed posts, repeat visits, castboards and stagedoor selfies for eceryone who is into this. And about 5 “it’s my turn to be in the room where it happens”-posts per day!
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