Single-show tickets for ‘Hamilton’ at ASU Gammage on sale next week
Dec 5, 2017, 10:07 AM | Updated: 11:50 am
(ASU Gammage Photo)
(ASU Gammage Photo)
PHOENIX — Single-show tickets to see the hit Broadway show “Hamilton” at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium will go on sale next week.
In order to get tickets, people will have to sign up for Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program between 10 a.m. Tuesday and midnight Thursday.
Those selected will be given a special access code on Sunday. Tickets will go on sale the following day.
Admission will start at $79.50 and top out at $189.50. A handful of premium seats — which will be sold for $489.50 — will also be available.
Households will only be allowed to purchase four tickets.
Gammage will hold a lottery for 40 orchestra seats for each performance. Those tickets will be just $10. More details were expected to be announced.
Officials with Gammage first announced the show would be coming to the Valley in January.
“It’s such an honor to bring this show to Arizona,” Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, the executive director for ASU Gammage, said at the time. “ASU Gammage continues to be a leader in touring Broadway.”
There will be 32 performances of “Hamilton” at the theater between Jan. 30 and Feb. 25, 2018. It will be the first time the show is performed on a college campus.
If you are looking to score a pair of tickets to what is sure to be the hottest show in town, you better act fast. Season tickets for the theater’s upcoming Broadway season sold out in just two hours in May.
It was the first time Gammage sold out its annual Broadway season ticket packages.
The brainchild of Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton” opened on Broadway in 2015 to rave reviews.
It tells the story of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, who was instrumental during the Revolutionary War and later became the nation’s first Treasury secretary.
However, instead of traditional Broadway singing, “Hamilton” uses hip-hop to move the story along. The show won 11 Tony awards.
The show’s effects were felt across the nation last year, cheered by politicians, stars and rappers alike and even helping shape the debate over the nation’s currency (Hamilton stayed on the $10 bill, in part due to Miranda’s show.)
But the musical also sparked controversy when the cast delivered a message about diversity to Vice President Mike Pence while he attended a performance. President Donald Trump demanded an apology on Twitter, which did not come.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
