FOMO: Hamilton

If you have paid even a little bit of attention to theater or Broadway for the past year, you've known all about Hamilton.

If you haven't: there is an extremely popular hip hop/rap musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton. And when I say extremely popular I mean that it is sold out for the foreseeable future. Nominated for a record breaking 16 Tony Awards. Winner of 11. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Face value of some of the best seats are $849. You didn't read that incorrectly. They subsidize some of the lottery tickets that cost a Hamilton. ($10)

It is so popular and so hard to get into that the resale ticket values are at upwards of $1000, and people are paying that. There's a video in which the message is that not everyone wants a baby but everyone wants Hamilton tickets.  Even though it gets weird with the husband (I don't even know...) it is a little funny.

Tomorrow, Hamilton Chicago tickets go on sale. The show will take up residence for an open-ended run in Chicago. Which is awesome. Chicago is a hop skip and a jump for us. It is not a completely unreasonable day trip and if we did stay over it is a far more affordable city that NYC. (Well, it can be certainly.) The tickets that go on sale tomorrow morning at 10:00 CST are for the first block of the show's run, September-January.

I am kind of a competitive person. Tell me I can't have something and I want it. I am a stay at home mom who could very easily set up camp tomorrow at 9:50 and hit refresh until I could buy tickets. But I am not going to. We are not going to buy Hamilton tickets.

And not because I don't want to see Hamilton. I fully admit that I have not committed to loving the show. Husband and C have however. For me, musicals are something I really have to see to appreciate. And there is VERY little video that has been leaked. Almost none. And people, I want to see what the fuss is about.

In the past month I have started to listen to it a little. The album is available on Amazon Prime Music which is great. Prime Music includes X-ray lyrics which is so helpful because I am able to read along with the music so I don't miss anything. (Visual learner right here!) I am currently really really really obsessed with the song Helpless.

And I REALLY want to see this show. But the September/October tickets are almost already sold for the subscribers and groups that have theater pull. Which leaves tickets for November-January. And then there's reality. The reality is the odds of snow or ice or other unfavorable driving conditions is high. Murphy's Law would have it that whatever day we were able to get tickets we wouldn't be able to get to Chicago.

But even though logic and reason tells me I am doing the right thing in waiting for tickets in the future for the open-ended run, I am still suffering from some major FOMO. (The fear of missing out.) The $10 lottery will be a little different for Chicago than it is in New York and it will be done online. So we may try to enter that in good weather times.

Have you seen Hamilton? Do you want to? Are your kids obsessed? C has always loved the Presidents and founding fathers so this is up his alley anyway. Are you going to read the book that inspired Lin-Manuel Miranda to write the musical in the first place?

I am on a waitlist that is HUGELY long for it but I can't wait to get my hands on it. I hope it will tide me over until I can get to see it. The show is going to start touring as well soon so maybe it will be near you in the coming years. It's a revolution in the theater world about the revolution of our country. Kind of awesome. And definitely giving me FOMO.