Two Boston educators were forced to pay thousands in fines after giving 'Hamilton' tickets donated to the Tobin School to their sons, who are not students.
A former Boston Public Schools principal and assistant principal were forced to pay $4,000 in fines for using tickets donated to the school to take their sons to see a performance of the smash play 'Hamilton.' In 2023, the Boston Educational Development Fund secured a dozen tickets for Tobin School students to see a performance of 'Hamilton' at the Citizens Bank Opera House, in addition to tickets for two chaperones.
By choosing to allocate three of the donated Hamilton tickets to their own sons who were not Tobin School or BPS students, Halfkenny and Miranda denied three Tobin School students of the opportunity to attend the show and violated the conflict of interest law,' State Ethics Commission Executive Director David Wilson said in a statement to The Boston Globe.
At its peak popularity when 'Hamilton' came on the scene in 2016, a ticket was so coveted that wishful theatergoers waited months to get a chance to see Lin-Manuel Miranda live on stage as the rapping Founding Father. However, fans who never made into the theater were thrown a bone when the play started streaming on Disney+ in 2020. The play won 11 Tonys and the Pulitzer Prize for drama during its run.
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