I am pretty hip

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Hamilton is for shitlibs.

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I don't know what that is, but the show was excellent.

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@audioidkid

in agreement with doug

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Most people go see Hamilton only so they can tell other people to "Go see Hamilton."

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I got free tickets.

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@audioidkid

Bring back TMLMTBGB

I was prepared not to like it but I liked it very much

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

by the 2nd song, it becomes quite clear that the hype was valid.

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@audioidkid

Hamilton was great, and I'm pretty far to the right on most things.

My problem with live theater in Chicago (the big shows, like Hamilton, Aladdin, Les Mis, etc.) is that it is extremely expensive to attend. I have 3 kids (first two were girls, so that gives me some sort of special dispensation in the "too many kids" thread), and recently went to Aladdin to celebrate Mothers day. Tickets were over $500 with fees for 5 of us, in the balcony. Add in $35 for parking (thanks Rahm--mostly taxes), and Pequods for pizza, and it was probably a $700 family event!

For $700, we could have done a great water park in the Dells for a weekend. Less cultured (lots of dicaro-sized women with "packers" tattoos wearing tankinis), but lots of fun and certainly fewer dollars per hour.

Hamilton with just my wife was over $400 for the two of us, plus parking and dinner.

Gayest thread ever

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They are kind of still doing it. It's just not called that anymore. One of the founders of the Neo-Futurists owned the rights to the name, or a publication of the first 30 plays using the name, and he parted ways with the theater last year.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

Dude's on Nick D's show on WGN all the time.

I'm sorry to hear that.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

I hear you there... we have three kids as well and would try to do a big Chicago play in early December and stop over at the Christkindl market and eat out somewhere, but it was running in that same margin you are quoting. Three years ago, we were really late in booking anything and basically couldn't find a play, but I did find Fox in a Box Chicago which is a pretty well run "escape the room" type place. The kids loved it much more than a play, and the fee for five people was like $30 a head. Now they love doing it so much more than going to a "boring" Les Mis play and we can hit up a nicer restaurant for dinner.

That being said, I do like live theater -- took the wife to Times Square for her birthday weekend and saw a couple of Broadway shows (Wicked and American in Paris) and they were awesome. A lot more reasonable with two people than five though.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

I think it is important for children to see live theater.

If you are looking for a cheap ticket in the Christmas season, buy A Christmas Carol during the Thanksgiving weekend. Tickets are bigly reduced and it is a nice opening to the season. It is steps away from Christkindle. You have to buy them early, almost as soon as sales open.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.