The man of the people, the champion of the underserved, the enemy of all things “establishment” was seen strolling across the plush carpet of the Richard Rodgers Theater off Times Square, attending a performance of the wildly popular play “Hamilton” with his wife Jane on Friday night.

The New York Times reports that the outing was obtained the way the normals do, by buying the tickets. In fact, the play is sold out through the end of the year. So how is that possible, when tickets have been so scarce that people have been selling them for double and triple their value? From the Times:

While Mr. Sanders didn’t acquire the tickets like the 99 percent of Hamilton fans scouring the Internet for seats or buying them months in advance, Michael Briggs, a spokesman for the campaign, said Mr. and Ms. Sanders did pay $167 each for two house seats, the small number of seats that are generally reserved for people like dignitaries and relatives of cast members.

Exactly when the senator’s campaign staff reserved the tickets still remains a mystery.

I suppose it does pay to run a nationwide presidential campaign, sometimes. For the rest of us, we shall return to our filthy lines and our furtive exchanges with scalpers, spending our money on Hamilton tickets instead of food.

We have reached out to the Sanders campaign about the tickets and will update this post when we hear back.