CHICAGO — Don't have tickets to "Hamilton" yet?
Your child might.
The Rockefeller Foundation announced Friday it is granting $6 million so that schoolchildren across the country can see the smash hit musical premiering Sept. 27 in Chicago.
The announcement came about a month after show founder Lin-Manuel Miranda told Complex he hoped to host Chicago Public Schools students. About 20,000 schoolchildren in New York got to see the show through a $1.5 million grant the Rockefeller Foundation issued last year.
"The thing is seeing it live, so it’s about being able to get as many people to see that," Miranda told Complex last month.
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Hundreds of people lined up last week to buy tickets to the show, a Tony Award-winning hip-hopera about the Founding Fathers of the United States. The line wrapped around a Loop block, and within minutes tickets were listed for as much as $8,000 on resale websites such as StubHub.
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The grant will allow about 100,000 public school students in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington and other cities to see matinee performances of the show for just $10. An in-class Hamilton curriculum will also be taught at schools where the majority of students receive free and reduced-price lunches, the foundation said.
It's unclear how many CPS students will see the show, or how students here will be selected. Spokeswomen for CPS did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
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