‘Hamilton’ crowds
but Benjamin Franklin is not**,
as in this summer heat and humidity
an enormous crowd gathers
to celebrate in sweltering stupidity
one of the coolest of our founding fathers,
apparently more than willing to fry
as they wish the show's stars goodbye.
as they wish the show's stars goodbye.
Centuries later one therefore might concur
that while in life he'd often acted the fool
at long last, Alex finally has won that duel
with the malevolent Aaron Burr,
And for all those like me with no shot
of ever seeing the show,
we just could find some nice air conditioned spot
to read its source, in the book, by Ron Chernow.
hzl
7/8/16
‘Hamilton’ star says crowds have made it unsafe to leave theater
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It’s going to be just as hard to score a glimpse of “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda as it is to see his final four shows.
The 36-year-old librettist, who is taking his final bowSaturday evening along with a few other members of the original cast, was engaging in his regular Twitter chats Thursday with his 635,000 followers when a fan begged him to come outside after the show.
“@Lin_Manuel please come out of the stage door tonight please I’m begging you, I love your work and it would be my honor to meet you,” @katmot1029 wrote.
But Miranda, who stars as Hamilton in the smash Broadway hit about the Founding Father that he also wrote, said he was helpless.
“Honestly, it’s simply not safe right now. I see kids get crushed at the front when I come out. I can’t have that,” he tweeted Thursday afternoon.
Dozens of fans responded to the Twitter conversation with their own harrowing tales of surviving the crowds outside of the Richard Rodgers Theatre on 46th Street.
“I was crushed the other day and you DIDNT come out. Not worth it! Still love your work but not worth it at all,” @nikknyc wrote.
“I was out there earlier and I can tell you they are being rude and snotty,” @jammom14 tweeted.
Crowds are even worse on Wednesdays, when Miranda does a free performance, dubbed Ham4Ham, outside the theater with fellow Broadway stars. The performances started as a way to hype the $10 ticket lottery available for every show.
Thousands of people packed onto the street to get their shot at seeing Miranda’s final Ham4Ham Wednesday, where he read a love letter Hamilton wrote to Eliza when he was still courting her.
“We almost got crushed and we were by the dumpster,” said Lillian MacNell, a 29-year-old grad student who traveled from North Carolina to see Wednesday’s matinee. “There were so many people, it was impossible to move.”
The NYPD said it regularly deploys an “adequate police detail” to monitor the crowds outside the theater, which ballooned after Miranda announced he would be leaving the show last month.
Cops also block off the crazed fans to avoid shutting down westbound traffic during the day.
One woman waiting in line Wednesday told The Post that at least 20 cops were stationed around the theater.
The packed streets combined with the intense heat caused one lotto hopeful to be hospitalized Wednesday afternoon after he passed out. A teen girl had a panic attack and was brought into the nearby Scientology building, according to witnesses.
“I could not start to count how many people were here,” said Pittsburgh native Olivia, 18, who was hoping to be one of the lucky lotto winners for Wednesday evening’s show.
Saturday evening’s performance will also be the last for Phillipa Soo, who plays his wife Eliza, and Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr., who portrays the show’s narrator and Hamilton’s longtime nemesis who killed him in an infamous gun duel, Aaron Burr.
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