tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-08:2968928supercheesegirlsupercheesegirlsupercheesegirl2017-06-09T01:10:53Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-08:2968928:1235595[theatre] Hamilton in NYC (!!!), Sat. 5/20/172017-06-09T01:10:53Z2017-06-09T01:10:53Zpublic0You guys, we saw Hamilton. On Broadway. Eeee! And it completely lived up to the hype. <br /><br />The occasion was F's 40th birthday, for which we'd planned a grownup weekend in NYC with another couple, F's best friend Mike (also celebrating his 40th) and wife Sarah. F and I went up on Friday afternoon, and Mike and Sarah joined us on Saturday morning. We knew we'd do a show on Saturday night, but Mike really, really wanted to see Hamilton. We eventually agreed that if he could get tickets for $300 each, we'd be in. So Friday night, F and I are drunk on bacon (<a href="http://www.barbacon.com">for serious</a>) and exploring Central Park when we start getting texts from Mike, who has found tickets. I'm not sure how he pulled it off, but he'd been looking online for weeks, and Sarah's dad had offered them some cash as a birthday gift toward getting theater tickets, and I believe the tickets were close enough to our $300 cap that Mike and Sarah just kicked in a little extra. So, yes, tickets were acquired the night before the show.<br /><br />I needed to spend the first five minutes of the show suspending my disbelief that it would make sense to rap about a guy born in the 1700s who was best known for the US Treasury. Once I got past that, before the end of the first song, I was hooked. It was amazing. Surprisingly, the first half with the Revolutionary War was the uplifting part; I cried twice in the second half. <i>I cried twice during a rap show about Alexander Hamilton.</i> It was just so good. So many nuances and layers. Such amazing performances. I loved it so much. <br /><br />Afterward, we adjourned to <a href="https://www.lilliesnyc.com/">Lillie's Victorian Establishment</a> for drinks and to decompress and talk about the show. We left there after 1, I think, and stopped for a slice of pizza on the way back to the hotel, which was an amazing idea. Got to bed around 2. Awesome night.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supercheesegirl&ditemid=1235595" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments