‘Hamilton’ lottery for low-cost tickets to the hit musical has started for Bushnell engagement
“Hamilton” is returning to The Bushnell, and so is the chance to win $10 tickets to the show through an online lottery.
The ticket lottery has been a part of the “Hamilton” experience since the show opened on Broadway and is now regularly conducted for all the different national tours of the show.
The lottery began Monday, with tickets available for every performance at $10 each to the winners. Tickets raffled between Monday and June 16 are good for performances the week of June 22. A new lottery begins on Friday for the following week of performances.
“Hamilton” is at The Bushnell from June 22 through July 10. It is the second time Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning show about the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury has visited the theater. This engagement was postponed two years by the COVID pandemic.
The lottery is conducted on the official “Hamilton” app, found at hamiltonmusical.com/app or the usual app stores, and works on all iOS and Android devices. Lotteries start at 10 a.m. on Fridays and ends the following Thursday at noon. Participants are notified, whether they win or lose, between 1 and 4 p.m. on Thursdays.
Lottery winners have just two hours to claim and pay for their tickets. Each winner can buy up to two tickets. The tickets are then held at the Will Call desk of The Bushnell box office and can be picked up there starting two hours before the performance they are for. A valid photo ID is required. The tickets are void if resold and are non-transferable.
Only one entry is allowed per person, and entrants must be 18 or older. Repeat entries and disposable email addressed are removed from the raffle.
Regular tickets for “Hamilton” are still on sale through The Bushnell for $91 to $266. Some performances are not sold out, and certain grouping of tickets have yet to be released to the general public.
The lottery system to get tickets out to fans who might otherwise be unable to afford them, or are unable to get them through conventional channels due to the show’s extraordinary success, is similar to a system pioneered by the Broadway musical “Rent” in the 1990s. With so many of the tickets long gone, the raffle brings some fresh enthusiasm when the show actually comes to town.
Christopher Arnott can be reached at carnott@courant.com.
