Fantasize that you were one of the investors who put up the $12.5 million needed to get Hamilton onto the stage in 2015. The musical has hauled in $1.2 billion in ticket sales so far, and is still selling out with ticket prices almost double the Broadway average, meaning that an abnormally large fraction of the gross is falling to the bottom line. It’s likely that the investors have already collected at least ten times the money they put in and will collect a lot more before this gusher dries up.
Feeding such fantasies is the job of impresarios like Rachel Sussman. At 36, young for a Broadway producer...
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