Clinton campaign partners with 'Hamilton' musical for fundraiser

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Still haven’t been able to score tickets to "Hamilton"? Hillary Clinton has some available, but they come at a steep price.

The Hillary Clinton campaign has partnered with the hit Broadway musical for a matinee performance that also acts as a fundraiser for the presumptive Democratic nominee.

General seats start at $2,700, and go as high as $100,000 — a special package that includes two premium seats, a party with Clinton and guests after the show, and an invitation to the Democratic National Convention.

Other tickets run $5,000, $10,000, and $33,400 for the July 12 performance at the Richard Rodgers Theater in New York.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/hillary-clinton-campaign-hamilton-224804#ixzz4CdD1QUjV

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I went to a showing in support of Gov. Cuomo; President Obama also had one for the DNC.

[iandhr]

1. Thank you Lin-Manuel Miranda

We are at your service sir.

[hobbit709]

2. Well, that certainly leaves us plebes out.

Us helots need to know our place.

[brooklynite]

4. As a Plebe, would you prefer that nobody see HAMILTON?

...or alternatively, would you prefer that the Unionized actors and crew take a pay cut?

[joshcryer]

5. Scalpers get as much as 10k per ticket...

Prices in the 1-2k range are common.

I'm not disagreeing with you but this actually could be a legitimate way to see the show for an opera fan who wants see a piece of American history.

[mountain grammy]

3. Somewhat out of my budget, but I can't wait to see that show.

It'll be in Denver in 2017. I hope this fundraiser works. If Trump wins, I'll be living in Mexico and hoping the show goes international.

[FairWinds]

6. As with most pop history . .

"Hamilton" the play distorts the man and his principles
almost beyond recognition. It is a whitewash.

Hamilton was actually an outrageous elitist, and he
tried mightily to build that elitism into the US constitution.

But on several levels it seems somehow fitting for the HRC campaign to
associate itself with Hamilton the actual person, as well as
the whitewash.

[IrishEyes]

7. If I were on her campaign.

I would recommend that they give a pair of tickets away to one of the donors in a specific time frame. Maybe with a meet and greet with one of the stars or something. Obama did those contests with trips to meet him and his family. A lot of people will donate to the campaign and one of us regular people could go. I used to donate ten or twenty dollars when one those contests happened for the chance to meet Obama.

[Sunlei]

8. Nice Fundraiser Event!

[ellenrr]

9. interesting article on Hamilton::

(concluding paragraph)

Miranda’s Hamilton is in this sense a perfect cultural wrap up to the ugly neoliberal Obama years. It is a brilliant ahistorical monument to Orwellian, fake-progressive bourgeois identity politics in service to the very predominantly Caucasian financial elite and ruling class hegemony. Before getting too excited about this power-serving accomplishment, however, Miranda might want to reflect on a critical difference between the One Percent of Alexander Hamilton’s time and the One Percent of Barack.

Prior to the onset of the neoliberal era in the 1970s, Noam Chomsky told Occupy Boston in the fall of 2011, the United States “had been, with ups and downs…a developing society, not always in pretty ways, but with general progress toward industrialization, prosperity and expansion of rights.” Since the triumph of finance capital, however, it’s been primarily about “de-development…a significant shift of the economy from productive enterprise – producing things people need or could use – to financial manipulation.” Is it any wonder that millions upon millions of the onetime working people rendered obsolete and useless – “surplus Americans” – and trying desperately to scrape by in the vacuum created by the neoliberal age of globalization are less than rapturous about the influx of immigrants that is purportedly celebrated in Hamilton, a liberal-celebrated musical that some rich Manhattan residents and tourists are paying more than $3000 per seat to attend?

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/24/miranda-obama-and-hamilton-an-orwellian-menage-a-trois-for-the-neoliberal-age/