ASU Gammage offering lottery for $10 ‘Hamilton’ tickets
Jan 23, 2018, 10:40 AM | Updated: 1:30 pm
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PHOENIX — If you missed out on scoring tickets to “Hamilton” at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium, have we got got some good news for you: It was announced Tuesday that a lottery will be held for tickets to every show.
ASU Gammage said people whose names are drawn in the lottery will be able to buy up to two orchestra tickets for just $10 each. Forty tickets will be made available for all 32 performances.
Interested people can either enter on the musical’s app or register online.
The lottery for each show will begin two days prior to the curtain being raised and end one day later, meaning people will have a lot of chances to snag some tickets.
Winners will be notified about 11 a.m. the day before the performance. They will have until 4 p.m. to purchase the tickets or they will miss out on their chance.
There was also hope for people who missed out on the original sale and don’t win the lottery: The auditorium said it may make some last-minute tickets available online or at the box office.
Single-show tickets for “Hamilton” sold out within hours. The musical opens Jan. 30 in Tempe and will close Feb. 25.
Season tickets for the theater’s 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 served as an aide to George Washington 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 Associated Press contributed to this report.