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20,000 NYC School Kids to Get $10 'Hamilton' Tickets

By Amy Zimmer | October 27, 2015 1:53pm
 Lin-Manuel Miranda answers questions at the New Yorker Festival.
Lin-Manuel Miranda answers questions at the New Yorker Festival.
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MANHATTAN — Trying to score tickets to the city’s most talked-about Broadway musical, "Hamilton"?

If you’re a New York City public school student, you might be in luck.

Starting in 2016, 20,000 students will get the chance to see the hit show for $10 and integrate its lessons about the nation’s fledgling democracy — presented hip-hop style with the Founding Fathers played by black and Hispanic actors — into their classrooms.

The initiative was announced Tuesday by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, its producer Jeffrey Seller and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña.

“It is a dream come true to have a program like this exist in connection to Hamilton,” Miranda said in a statement. 

“I can’t wait to perform for a theater full of students who are learning about our Founding Fathers in class and seeing how it still relates to their own lives on stage,” added the recently anointed MacArthur “genius,” who attended the Upper East Side’s Hunter College High School.

“They will see Hamilton’s story and I'm hopeful that the stories it will inspire in them will change our lives in ways we can't even anticipate.”

The first group of participating high schools selected by the Department of Education will include those with large numbers of students eligible for free or reduced lunch, DOE officials said.  Some students will attend shows with general audiences, but most will attend student-only matinees, starting April 3.

The initiative is made possible through a $1.46 million grant by The Rockefeller Foundation to Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, which will develop educational programming for students and teachers designed around the Alexander Hamilton experience and oversee the distribution of tickets.

The institute’s “Hamilton Study & Performance Guide” will include an online ‘Hamilton’ portal for students and teachers, and classroom materials offering students a creative platform for developing and producing their own original performances of poetry, rap, songs and scenes, officials said.

If you’re not a city student, the earliest you can see the show is Jan. 2, 2016, with tickets ranging from $77 to $199, according to the show’s website.