Hamilton's West End debut has been delayed by two weeks due to the redevelopment of London's Victoria Palace Theatre.
Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical will start previews on December 6 instead of the previously announced November 21, with customers who have booked tickets for the first two weeks to be contacted directly by Ticketmaster today (September 8).
Anyone who has booked tickets via official Hamilton channels for the performances affected will be re-seated early in the run with the minimum of inconvenience, with each customer asked to give three preferences for a new show from a list of dates.
All seats that were put on sale for the first booking period to June 2018 have sold out, but a large number of seats were held in reserve to be released once the building was nearing completion.
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Once the re-seating has been completed, the remaining tickets for this period will be put on sale next month.
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Hamilton's delay has led to mixed reactions online with obvious disappointment and anger from those who had early tickets to smug tweets from anyone who booked later in the run.
"The time constraints to access the land around the theatre to enable the rebuild and getting the show open to the public by the end of this year have been tight, not helped by the theatre being built over the huge King's Scholars' Pond Sewer, an active 200-year-old brick tunnel," explained co-producer Cameron Mackintosh.
"I am, of course, sorry to amend the performance schedule but undertaking a private rebuilding project on this scale in Central London has no precedent."
Producer Jeffrey Seller added: "We are extremely sorry to disappoint patrons who we know expended time, effort, and valuable resources to purchase tickets for our first performances. But they will be given immediate priority."
The West End cast of Hamilton will be led by relative newcomer Jamael Westman as fiery US founding father Alexander Hamilton.
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