Joe Nocera, Columnist

'Hamilton' Fights the Laws of Economics (and Loses)

There are lots of good reasons for those crazy ticket prices to fall. It isn't happening.

March 23, 2017 at 9:00 AM UTC

Corrected

March 23, 2017 at 2:27 PM UTC

Joe Nocera is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He has written business columns for Esquire, GQ and the New York Times, and is the former editorial director of Fortune. He is the host and writer of the Bloomberg-Wondery podcast "The Shrink Next Door."

Don't bother with the box office.
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The first to leave was King George III.

It was April 2016 when Jonathan Groff, who played King George in the megahit musical "Hamilton," left the show. Three months later, Lin-Manuel Miranda, who created the show, composed the music and starred as Alexander Hamilton, took his final bow. By the end of 2016, virtually the entire cast had been replaced.