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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 1, 2017 7:28:15 GMT
I'm starting to feel like this whole anti-tout paperless ticket thing is just a marketing ploy. It got them some publicity. Already loads of tickets are on sale for thousands on these sites.
I heard an interview with Mackintosh and part of the deal with ticketmaster selling the official tickets was that they couldn't sell marked up ones on the dodgy site they own- (was it seatwave or stub hub?)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 9:06:21 GMT
Just because tickets are on sale on other sites doesn't mean it is a marketing ploy - some people will try anything to get around the restrictions, and they may or may not succeed.
And as was discussed a few pages back, there are actually relatively few tickets on resale sites at the minute.
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Post by viserys on Feb 1, 2017 9:30:06 GMT
The price of £5000 (which is the asking price for apparently forever the same four tickets on Viagogo) is also plain greed. I wonder if ANYONE will consider shelling out that amount of dough?
We'll also have to wait until performances actually start to see if people buying from touts/secondary sites will be refused entry. I wouldn't want to be the person who paid £5000 for a ticket only to be turned away at the door...
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Post by infofreako on Feb 1, 2017 10:19:43 GMT
There was a press release when those tickets appeared saying that they would be cancelled
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Post by daniel on Feb 1, 2017 10:40:15 GMT
There was a press release when those tickets appeared saying that they would be cancelled The difficulty is that they can't actually cancel them unless they can establish which specific seats they are. If somebody puts them on Viagogo listed as, for example, "Row D stalls, 2 tickets, £5000 each", DMT have no way of knowing which two seats they are to cancel them. In the grand scheme of things though, as frustrating as these re-sellers are, it is on a very small scale in comparison with the Broadway scalping bots, harvesting thousands of tickets and putting them up for resale.
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Post by Sari on Feb 1, 2017 14:37:04 GMT
thank god they're not selling tickets for dress circle the day i'm going via viagogo, because i would be scared as hell...
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 1, 2017 21:10:13 GMT
Wow it's virtually sold out till June. I'm assuming they are about to release a new booking period. This will be sold out a year in advance at least I'd imagine.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2017 21:32:45 GMT
It says on the website they'll release a new booking period in the Autumn. They probably want to wait to emphasize how it's impossible to get tickets until then.
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Post by mrbarnaby on Feb 2, 2017 9:19:16 GMT
That makes sense. They'll be doing tons of interviews and publicity prior to opening so they'll want to have some hope of tickets going on sale around then
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 20:44:10 GMT
How can I get tickets for this?
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Post by daniel on Feb 2, 2017 21:05:34 GMT
How can I get tickets for this? Thursday matinees towards the end of the booking period. That's all that's left now.
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Post by stuartmcd on Feb 2, 2017 21:07:52 GMT
How can I get tickets for this? There is currently only availability for Thursday matinees in May and June through the Ticketmaster website. There will also be a daily and weekly lottery for the show
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Post by infofreako on Feb 2, 2017 23:13:56 GMT
The close to sold out status must make the next booking period closer
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 23:25:21 GMT
Or wait until a bit later in the year when they'll finalise the seating plans and release for sale the tickets they've been holding off just in case the seats weren't going to be there, or because they didn't know how much the seats should cost until they got in there and had a go.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 6:52:24 GMT
Looks like the booking period is completely sold out now. Those bus posters were a waste of money huh.
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Post by ptwest on Feb 6, 2017 7:20:43 GMT
Great way of continuing the hype though. Pay a fortune on advertising, people try to buy tickets but can't then make a mental note to book when more tickets go on sale. So then another ticket frenzy!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 11:11:49 GMT
Looks like the booking period is completely sold out now. Those bus posters were a waste of money huh. Quite the opposite. People see the posters, go to book tickets, realise they can't. Worry that they're missing out and wait for the next batch of tickets to be released. Creates a hype!
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Post by mrcurry on Feb 7, 2017 0:06:02 GMT
I bought my tickets for Hamilton 16 months in advance. On browsing a twitter feed, it revealed part of the plot of the show. I am gobsmacked at the insensitivity of this. So I will now watch the show for the first time fully knowing what happens to one the the characters. Not happy at the moment.
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Post by 49thand8th on Feb 7, 2017 3:09:56 GMT
I bought my tickets for Hamilton 16 months in advance. On browsing a twitter feed, it revealed part of the plot of the show. I am gobsmacked at the insensitivity of this. So I will now watch the show for the first time fully knowing what happens to one the the characters. Not happy at the moment. Is this a pitch for The Onion? It's really good!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 7:14:35 GMT
I bought my tickets for Hamilton 16 months in advance. On browsing a twitter feed, it revealed part of the plot of the show. I am gobsmacked at the insensitivity of this. So I will now watch the show for the first time fully knowing what happens to one the the characters. Not happy at the moment. Welcome to the internet - the source of all information. If you don't want to be spoiled, then it's easy to avoid various forms of social media. And I've managed to remain unspoiled despite following most of the OBC on twitter, so it's really not difficult... PS you do realise this show is based on historical events as well, right? Aka stuff everyone knows/should know/can easily find out...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 8:13:09 GMT
I bought my tickets for Hamilton 16 months in advance. On browsing a twitter feed, it revealed part of the plot of the show. I am gobsmacked at the insensitivity of this. So I will now watch the show for the first time fully knowing what happens to one the the characters. Not happy at the moment. Does he diet at the end? Everyone diets in the end
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Post by freckles on Feb 7, 2017 8:15:31 GMT
I bought my tickets for Hamilton 16 months in advance. On browsing a twitter feed, it revealed part of the plot of the show. I am gobsmacked at the insensitivity of this. So I will now watch the show for the first time fully knowing what happens to one the the characters. Not happy at the moment. Did you really need to put this in two separate threads?
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Post by Stasia on Feb 7, 2017 8:29:04 GMT
I bought my tickets for Hamilton 16 months in advance. On browsing a twitter feed, it revealed part of the plot of the show. I am gobsmacked at the insensitivity of this. So I will now watch the show for the first time fully knowing what happens to one the the characters. Not happy at the moment. Does he diet at the end? Everyone diets in the end That reminded me of an old stupid joke about two friends meeting: - Where have you been? - At the cemetery. - What happened? Someone's dead? - Dude, you won't believe that! Everyone there is dead!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 9:21:33 GMT
I went on a SERIOUS campaign of avoidance when I got my Hamilton tickets and decided I wanted to go in reasonably unspoiled. It's a bit different in my case - I read the book, so I knew the basic history, but I didn't want to know anything about how they did it. I had to mute a lot of people on Twitter and give up other social media sites all together, but I basically managed it. But it was very much on me to do the avoiding. People who enjoy a show are going to talk about it. People who listen to the cast recording (particularly in a mostly sung-through show like this) are going to know what happens to who. There are going to be articles about the show that show images and/or discuss plot points. There are going to be articles about theatre in general that show images and/or discuss plot points. You might be innocently watching TV when a parody pops up, revealing more than you might like to know.
Anyway, the show's been on Broadway for a year and a half, and the cast recording has attained double platinum status (that's 2,000,000 copies sold). It's probably possible to continue to avoid spoilers, but we're surely reaching the point where it's unreasonable to expect that everyone is going to be dainty and close-mouthed about discussing it.
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Post by dizzieblonde on Feb 7, 2017 9:44:39 GMT
I'm kind of straddling the avoidance/knowledge line here too. I've seen the extracts of Hamilton that were performed and released at the White House (the original one and the big event done for Obama), and performances of Alexander Hamilton and My Shot are pretty unavoidable, given they were performed on the Tony's and on other shows. They're the reason I bought my tickets - it confirmed all the hype was valid, and I was sold. I bought Ron Chernow's book a couple of week's ago, and am spending next week in the Canary Islands, lying on a sun lounger and reading the 800 pages in a giant binge! Going on holiday and reading that book seems pretty appropriate, right?! So, I'll be up to speed with that period of American history, as my current knowledge is a touch woolly! However, I really do want to avoid the full soundtrack as much as possible, as I want my first full experience of the Hamilton music and lyrics to be at the theatre. I'm not a spoiler-phobe, so knowing the plot doesn't bother me in the slightest, but I don't want to know each song intimately before I sit down to watch the show. Honestly, my worst nightmare in any musical theatre experience is being stuck next to the 'Superfan' who insists on singing along (loudly) to all songs - especially when it's clear they're basically just 'showing off', that they know the show so well!! Yep, please don't be one of those!
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