When you find a new piece of pop culture that you love, all you want to do is talk about it with other people. It’s more enjoyable when your friends have also fallen hard for the same thing, but a truly smitten fan can carry easily on a conversation about their new obsession with half a dozen others who have only a polite passing interest.
In the case of Hamilton, the hip hop musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda about the life of the US Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton that has broken box office records and received an unprecedented number of Tony award nominations, this effect has been amplified by how difficult it is to get tickets to the actual show. Tickets for the London production of the show went on sale earlier this week, and are already being offered for over $6,000 on reselling websites.
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