2016 Postmortem

Sunlei

(22,651 posts) Sat Apr 9, 2016, 11:54 AM Apr 2016

Bernie Sanders’s Big Win: Tickets to ‘Hamilton’

Bernie Sanders snagged tickets Friday to one of the hottest Broadway shows in town, and of course, it featured a political revolution.

The Vermont senator, accompanied by his wife, Jane, and surrounded by a crowd of Secret Service agents ended a long day of campaigning in Brooklyn by watching “Hamilton” at the Richard Rodgers Theater off Times Square. While Mr. Sanders didn’t acquire the tickets like the 99 percent of Hamilton fans scouring the Internet for seats or buying them months in advance, Michael Briggs, a spokesman for the campaign, said Mr. and Ms. Sanders did pay $167 each for two house seats, the small number of seats that are generally reserved for people like dignitaries and relatives of cast members.

Abigail Kass, a 20-year-old sophomore at Boston University who got tickets for her birthday, said people inside the theater instantly went wild when they saw Mr. Sanders joining the audience a few minutes before the start of the show. Several people leaned over to gawk at Mr. Sanders as he sat in middle orchestra seats. At one point he received a standing ovation just before the show began, with some people shouting “Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!”

“I was sitting in the upper orchestra and all of a sudden I saw people standing and freaking out and at first I thought the show was starting early,” Ms. Kass said. “But then I heard someone whisper ‘Bernie,’ and I looked down and there was this crowd of people. And I could see the top of his head, which is very recognizable, and it’s Bernie Sanders.”

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/04/09/bernie-sanderss-big-win-tickets-to-hamilton/?_r=0