‘Hamilton’ proving a hot ticket

Smith show seats fetching top dollar

Tickets for “Hamilton” tour dates in Las Vegas are not officially on sale yet, but ticketmania has officially begun, with hundreds of tickets already available online — some with asking prices around $4,000 each.

“If tickets are in that much demand, why not sell mine?” mused Chris Sheerin, a

Smith Center season subscriber for five years, who is currently listing all four seats in his Dress Circle Box on Craigslist for $2,900.

Producers of the phenomenally popular Broadway musical based on the life of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton have not said when members of the public will be allowed to purchase tickets for the show, which will appear May 29-June 24 at The Smith Center for the Perform

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ing Arts. Season ticket holders have received their precious admission slips, but the public is still waiting to find out when they can buy tickets — and how much they will cost.

“It’s a strategic decision made by the producers of ‘Hamilton,’” said Smith Center President and CEO Myron Martin. “The less time you give ticket brokers to resell, the less opportunity they have to jack the prices up.”

Despite these precautions, “Hamilton” tickets are widely available on websites like Stubhub, Seatgeek, Vivid Seats and Craigslist for those who want to make sure they don’t get shut out. In the past week, StubHub had at least 136 tickets available for nine of the 32 scheduled performances. Prices ranged from just under $500 for a seat in the rear of the balcony on a Saturday night to just under $4,000 for the first or third rows of the center orchestra at a Sunday matinee.

Should theater fans without season tickets resign themselves to spending that kind of money to

and “The Color Purple,” for less than the current asking price for a single “Hamilton” ticket.

The true impact of “Hamilton,” however, goes beyond the financial windfall, said Martin.

“We now are an important stop on Broadway’s tours,” he said. “And without The Smith Center, it’s pretty clear we wouldn’t have been one of the first cities to announce that we got ‘Hamilton.’”

Contact Al Mancini at amancini@ reviewjournal.com. Follow @ Almancinivegas on Twitter.