Hamilton was brilliant and went by in flash. So glad I got tickets for September (and better ones--front row of the lower mezzanine). I do think being up a little is an advantage as they did great things lighting the stage floor.
Spring Awakening was less entertaining for me, but very worthwhile. Also great things with lighting. My daughter said the signs were very dramatically done and that the translation was beautiful. There were a LOT of ASL students in the audience, and I saw something I never thought I'd see at a live performance: a girl on her cell texting through the last 30 minutes of the show. She was across the aisle, so it was too awkward to say anything. After the play, I called her on it, though. It made me so mad--all the people behind her in the audience (and me to the side--I had a hard time focusing with her screen lighting up the dark). Not to mention the actors, who could surely see it. If she was so bored, she should have gone out to the lobby. Same girl was crunching on potato chips through half the show. I didn't even know people ate snacks at live shows.