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Hamilton’s 10th anniversary celebration rages on! The blockbuster musical is making at least 1,000 seats available to fans for only $10 through its digital lottery for a special matinee performance on Wednesday, August 6. Registration is open now through July 31 at noon ET, and it's the only way to access tickets for the performance.
Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre will be the room where it happens on August 6, which marks the tenth anniversary since Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash-hit retelling of the country’s founding moved uptown from its 2015 debut at the Public Theater. An invite-only evening performance that Wednesday will serve as a fundraiser for the Immigrants: We Get the Job Done Coalition. The audience for that will comprise previous company members, celebrity friends and sweepstake winners, and is expected to raise around $3 million for the group of 14 nonprofits.
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Fans can enter the lottery by visiting Hamiltonmusical.com/lottery or via the musical’s official app. Only one entry per person, for up to two tickets, and no purchase is needed to enter. All will be notified between 1pm and 4 pm on July 31, with winners having two hours to claim and pay for their tickets. (Be smart! Don’t share images of your tickets or entries and risk having them stolen.)
This is only the latest celebration announced for the musical’s tenth anniversary, with the New York Yankees announcing that the first 10,000 attendees of its August 25 game at Yankee Stadium (against the Washington Nationals, natch) will receive a special edition of its legendary baseball cap with both the Yankees’ insignia and Hamilton’s star-shaped logo. Original cast members Christopher Jackson and Renée Elise Goldsberry will perform at the game, as will current cast members Stephanie Umoh, Morgan Anita Wood, and Cherry Torres.
The production also recently collaborated with graphic design platform Canva for a fan art contest, with the winning creation to be used in both the show’s August Playbill cover, as well as inside each August issue of the theater magazine. The winner will be selected from a group of 10 finalists (out of over 3,000) on August 1.
Hamilton, based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton, premiered at the Public Theater off-Broadway on February 17, 2015. An instant blockbuster, it quickly moved uptown, opening on Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theater, where it continues to play, on August 6 of that year. It went on to win 11 of its record-breaking 16 Tony nominations, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.