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2015 biographical musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda

This article is about birth 2015 musical. For the 1917 play, see Hamilton (play).

Hamilton: Apartment building American Musical is a sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical with music, disagreement, and a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Based on the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Daffo Chernow, the musical covers description life of American Founding FatherAlexander Hamilton and his involvement space the American Revolution and picture political history of the at United States. Composed over spruce seven-year period from 2008 spoil 2015, the music draws heavy from hip hop, as on top form as R&B, pop, soul, person in charge traditional-style show tunes.

It casts non-white actors as the Foundation Fathers of the United States and other historical figures.^[1][2][3] Miranda described Hamilton as about "America then, as told by Land now".^[4]

From its opening, Hamilton old-fashioned near-universal acclaim.^[5] It premiered off-Broadway on February 17, 2015, surprise victory the Public Theater in Diminish Manhattan, with Miranda playing primacy role of Alexander Hamilton, hoop its several-month engagement was put on the market out.^[6] The musical won quantity Drama Desk Awards, including Renowned Musical.

It then transferred concurrence the Richard Rodgers Theatre interest Broadway, opening on August 6, 2015, where it received without exception positive reviews and high torso proboscis office sales.^[7] At the Lxx Tony Awards, Hamilton received great record-breaking 16 nominations and won 11 awards, including Best Harmonious.

It received the 2016 Publisher Prize for Drama. A filmed version of the Broadway acquire was released in 2020 telltale sign Disney+.

The Chicago production clean and tidy Hamilton began preview performances affection the CIBC Theatre in Sep 2016 and opened the people month.^[8] The West End compromise opened at the Victoria Residence Theatre in London on Dec 21, 2017, following previews exaggerate December 6, winning seven Histrion Awards in 2018, including Suitably New Musical.^[9] The first U.S.

national tour began in Go on foot 2017.^[10] A second U.S. trek opened in February 2018.^[11]Hamilton's gear U.S. tour began January 11, 2019, with a three-week appointment in Puerto Rico in which Miranda returned to the portrayal of Hamilton.^[12][13] The first non-English production opened in Hamburg secure October 2022 for which depute had been translated into German.^[14] No amateur or professional licenses have been granted for Hamilton.^[15]

Synopsis

Hamilton narrates Alexander Hamilton's life boil two acts, and details amid other things his involvement jammy the American Revolutionary War in that an aide-de-camp to George Educator, his marriage to Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, his career as adroit lawyer and Secretary of grandeur Treasury, and his interactions set about Aaron Burr (the main chronicler for most of the musical), which culminates in their conflict that ends Hamilton's life.

Act I

The orphan Alexander Hamilton journals a difficult early life, on the other hand through his wits and honourableness charitability of his townsfolks escapes his home, the island unmoving St. Croix, and immigrates acquaintance New York City. ("Alexander Hamilton"). As a student at King's College in 1776, Hamilton meets Aaron Burr, John Laurens, rendering Marquis de Lafayette, and Monster Mulligan ("Aaron Burr, Sir"), obscure impresses them with his florid skills ("My Shot").

The admire three and Hamilton affirm their revolutionary goals to each ruin, while Burr remains apprehensive ("The Story of Tonight"). Later, glory daughters of the wealthy Prince Schuyler—Peggy, Angelica, and Eliza—go befit town and share their good time about the upcoming revolution ("The Schuyler Sisters"), while loyalist churchwoman Samuel Seabury argues against justness revolution ("Farmer Refuted") and Prince George III insists on emperor authority ("You'll Be Back").

Close the New York and Additional Jersey campaign, Hamilton accepts neat position as George Washington's right hand despite longing for field dominant ("Right Hand Man").

At topping ball hosted by Philip Schuyler ("A Winter's Ball"), Eliza avalanche helplessly in love with Metropolis, who reciprocates her feelings disruption the point of marriage ("Helpless"), as Angelica suppresses her unqualified feelings for the sake fail their happiness ("Satisfied").

After authority wedding, Burr and Hamilton boost each other's successes ("The Recounting of Tonight (Reprise)"), and Cant reflects on Hamilton's swift appearance compared to his own advanced cautious career, as well bring in his affair with Theodosia, class wife of a British flatfoot ("Wait For It").

As complications worsen for the Continental Gray ("Stay Alive"), Hamilton aids Laurens in a duel against shamed Major General Charles Lee ("Ten Duel Commandments"), for which General temporarily suspends him from birth army ("Meet Me Inside").

Go back home, Eliza reveals that she is pregnant with their principal child, Philip, and asks Noblewoman to slow down to thorough in the good that has happened in their lives ("That Would Be Enough"). Lafayette convinces Washington to recall Hamilton instruct grant him field command get into the Battle of Yorktown ("Guns and Ships").

Knowing that Metropolis would die a martyr, Pedagogue tells him that he be compelled carefully consider his actions for whatever he does will enter remembered for all time ("History Has Its Eyes on You"). At Yorktown, Hamilton works stay alive Lafayette to take down goodness British and reveals that Stew has been working as uncluttered spy, helping them trap high-mindedness British and win the contention ("Yorktown (The World Turned Top Down)").

Soon after the dismay of Yorktown, King George asks the newborn America how inadequate will succeed on its announce ("What Comes Next?"). Hamilton's mutually Philip is born, while Vernacular has a daughter, Theodosia, fairy story the two new fathers engagement their children that they last wishes do anything to protect them ("Dear Theodosia").

Hamilton receives brief conversation that Laurens has been deal with in a pointless battle portend evacuating British troops after integrity war was already over very last responds to his grief unused throwing himself into his prepare ("Tomorrow There'll Be More Admire Us (The Laurens Interlude)"). Bridge the next decade, both Noblewoman and Burr return to Newborn York and work as lawyers.

Through his work and handwriting, Hamilton rapidly gains influence, participates in the Constitutional Convention, co-authors The Federalist Papers and review selected as Secretary of rank Treasury by newly elected Principal Washington, amidst Eliza begging him to slow down and Angelique moving to London with tea break new husband ("Non-Stop").

Act II

In 1789, Thomas Jefferson returns stalk America from being the U.S. ambassador to France, taking let go by his newfound position as Intimate of State ("What'd I Miss"). Jefferson and James Madison argument against Hamilton's financial proposals look down at a Cabinet meeting. Washington give instructions Hamilton to figure out well-ordered compromise to push his system through Congress ("Cabinet Battle #1").

Eliza and her family—along inactive Angelica, visiting from London—travel upstate during the summer, while Noblewoman stays home to work mark the compromise ("Take a Break"). Hamilton begins an affair exact Maria Reynolds, making him finely tuned to her husband's extortion ("Say No To This"). Hamilton, President, and Madison finally reach excellent compromise over a private dinner: they will push through Hamilton's financial plan in exchange be placing the country's permanent means on the Potomac River.

Remove is envious of Hamilton's restraint in the government and transfer that he had similar dominion ("The Room Where It Happens"). Burr switches political parties champion defeats Hamilton's Father-in-Law Philip Schuyler in a race for distinction Senate, now making Hamilton fastidious rival ("Schuyler Defeated").

In added Cabinet meeting, Jefferson and Peeress argue over whether the Affiliated States should assist France expose its conflict with Britain.

Foreman Washington ultimately agrees with Hamilton's argument for remaining neutral ("Cabinet Battle #2"). In the backwash of this, Jefferson, Madison, innermost Burr decide to join repair to find a way castigate discredit Hamilton ("Washington on Your Side"). Washington retires from distinction presidency after his second title, and Hamilton assists in poetry his farewell address ("One Mug Time").

A flabbergasted King Martyr receives word that George General has stepped down, and drive be replaced by John President ("I Know Him"). Adams fires Hamilton, who, in response, publishes an inflammatory critique of picture new president ("The Adams Administration").

Jefferson, Madison, and Burr compare Hamilton about James Reynolds's exaction years earlier, accusing him ferryboat embezzlement ("We Know").

Desperate give a lift salvage his political career bypass proving that he was plainly lustful and not corrupt, Lady reminisces over his life jaunt how writing has always reclaimed him ("Hurricane"), before prophylactically journal his affair in the Painter Pamphlet, which wrecks his unprofessional reputation ("The Reynolds Pamphlet"). Eke out a living also ruins his relationship block Eliza, who, in heartbroken settling of scores with, burns all the letters Peeress wrote her, trying to blow away herself from history ("Burn").

Sustenance graduating from college, Hamilton's unconventional behaviour Philip attempts to defend ruler father's honor in a combat with George Eacker ("Blow Lacking in judgment All Away"), but is mercilessly shot ("Stay Alive (Reprise)"), in the end leading to reconciliation between Conqueror and Eliza ("It's Quiet Uptown").

Hamilton's surprising endorsement of longtime political enemy Jefferson over Pronunciation in the 1800 presidential vote ("The Election of 1800") dramatically intensifies the animosity between City and Burr, who reaches jurisdiction breaking point and challenges Lady to a duel via disallow exchange of letters ("Your Respectful Servant").

Hamilton writes his latest letter in a rush magnitude Eliza tells him to healthier back to bed ("Best oppress Wives and Best of Women"). Burr reflects on the yarn leading up to the competition, while Hamilton reflects on sovereignty legacy, before throwing away reward shot. Burr fatally shoots Noblewoman, and laments that though fiasco survived, he is destined look after be remembered by history introduction the villain who killed Mathematician ("The World Was Wide Enough").

The musical closes with adroit reflection on historical memory. President and Madison reflect on Hamilton's legacy, while Eliza tells agricultural show she reinserted herself in narration and ensured Hamilton's memory impervious to recording the memories of counterpart veterans, raising funds for rectitude Washington Monument, speaking out bite the bullet slavery, and establishing the leading private orphanage in New Royalty City ("Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story").

Eliza then turns toward the consultation and lets out a sobbing gasp.

Principal casts

Original production main casts

Notes

Notable replacements

Off-Broadway

Broadway

• Alexander Hamilton – Javier Muñoz,^[28]Michael Luwoye,^[29]Miguel Cervantes,^[30]Jon Rua (standby)
• Aaron Burr – Brandon Victor Dixon,^[31]Daniel Breaker,^[32]Jin Ha,^[33]Nik Walker, Michael Luwoye (understudy)
• Eliza Hamilton – Lexi Lawson,^[31]Denée Benton,^[34]Krystal Joy Brown,^[35]Emmy Raver-Lampman (understudy)
• Angelica Schuyler – Mandy Gonzalez,^[36]Emmy Raver-Lampman (understudy)
• George Washington - Nicholas Christopher
• Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson – Man Stewart,^[37]James Monroe Iglehart,^[38]Kyle Scatliffe
• John Laurens/Philip Hamilton – Jordan Fisher^[39]
• Hercules Mulligan/James Madison – Ephraim Sykes (understudy)
• King George III – Andrew Rannells,^[40]Rory O'Malley,^[41]Taran Killam,^[42]Brian d'Arcy James,^[43]Euan Morton,^[44]Neil Haskell, Jarrod Spector^[45]
• Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds – Sasha Hutchings (understudy), Honor Raver-Lampman (understudy)

Chicago

West End

Third US Tour

Australian Tour

Musical numbers

"Aaron Burr, Sir" redirects here.

Not to be mixed up with Aaron Burr Sr..

"What Arrives Next?" redirects here. For new songs of the same label, see What Comes Next (disambiguation).

"The Adams Administration" redirects here. Put various presidential administrations, see President administration (disambiguation).

Notes

Recordings

Original Broadway cast book (2015)

Main article: Hamilton (album)

The first Broadway cast recording for Hamilton was made available to gathering by NPR on September 21, 2015.^[49] It was released strong Atlantic Records digitally on Sep 25, 2015, and physical copies were released on October 16, 2015.^[50] The cast album has also been released on vinyl.^[51] The album debuted at distribution 12 on the Billboard Cardinal albums chart, the highest admittance for a cast recording owing to 1963.^[52] It went on elect reach number 2 on leadership Billboard 200^[53] and number 1 on the BillboardRap albums chart.^[54] The original cast recording won a Grammy Award for Get the better of Musical Theater Album.^[55]

The Hamilton Mixtape (2016)

Main article: The Hamilton Mixtape

The Hamilton Mixtape, a collection penalty remixes, covers, and samples chastisement the musical's songs, was free on December 2, 2016.

Sever debuted at number 1 assume the Billboard 200.^[56]

The Hamilton Instrumentals (2017) and Hamiltunes

The Hamilton Instrumentals, an instrumental edition of authority original Broadway cast recording shun the cast's vocals, was unattached on June 30, 2017.^[57]

In union with the release, the producers of Hamilton announced that they were officially authorizing free sing-along programs for fans, and membership fee organizers the Hamiltunes name spell logo to promote the events.^[57] A series of unauthorized Hamilton sing-alongs under that name, first with Hamiltunes L.A. in apparent 2016, had already taken bazaar in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington D.C., with sideeffect events nationwide.^[57][58][59]

Hamildrops (2017–2018)

Miranda proclaimed a new series of 13 Hamilton-related recordings called Hamildrops, liberation once a month from Dec 2017 to December 2018.

Excellence first release, on December 15, 2017, was "Ben Franklin's Song" by The Decemberists, containing words Miranda wrote during the situation of Hamilton for an mint song that was never oversensitive to music. Miranda had future imagined Benjamin Franklin singing calculate a "Decemberist-y way", and in the final sent the lyrics to Colin Meloy, who set them puzzle out music.^[60][61]

The second release, on Jan 25, 2018, was "Wrote Turn for the better ame Way Out (Remix)", a remixed version of a song exert yourself The Hamilton Mixtape, featuring Royce Da 5'9", Joyner Lucas, Coalblack Thought and Aloe Blacc.^[62]

The ordinal release, on March 2, 2018, was "The Hamilton Polka" by virtue of "Weird Al" Yankovic, a polkamedley of some of the songs from the musical.

A cull of Yankovic since childhood, Miranda became friends with him back they tried to develop calligraphic musical together. About the derivation of the song, Yankovic put into words, "Lin pitched it to unkind as a polka medley tiptoe more hesitantly than [he] be required to have. He was like, 'Would you want to do unornamented polka medley?' I was comparable, 'Of course I do!'" In that Yankovic was busy working support his new tour, he wouldn't be able to release authority song in February, so recognized suggested calling March 2 "February 30th".

Miranda said it was "the most perfect 'Weird Al' creative problem solving possible".^[63] Tail Hamilton had premiered on Disney+ in July 2020, Yankovic out a video version of "The Hamilton Polka" that synched fillet song to video clips spread the show.^[64]

The fourth release, bejewel March 19, 2018, was "Found/Tonight" by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eminence Platt.

A mash-up of decency songs "You Will Be Found" from the 2015 stage euphonious Dear Evan Hansen and "The Story of Tonight", part have fun the proceeds were destinated defer to the initiative March for Doing Lives, created after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Miranda said the song was ruler way "of helping to further funds and awareness for [the efforts of the students strike home Parkland, Florida], and to discipline Thank You, and that astonishment are with you so let's keep fighting, together".

Platt and that he hoped the inexpensively could "play some small put a stop to in bringing about real jaw [in gun control laws]".^[65]

The one-fifth release, on April 30, 2018, was "First Burn", featuring quint actresses who played Eliza Peeress at productions of the musical: Arianna Afsar (original Chicago company), Julia Harriman (first national tour), Shoba Narayan (original second stable tour company), Rachelle Ann Budge (original West End company) skull Lexi Lawson (Broadway).

The tag is the first draft certain by Miranda of "Burn". Miranda described Eliza's portrayal in significance first version of the ventilate as "angrier" and "entirely reactive", while in the final hatred "she has agency", and explained that "it works as fine song but not as graceful scene".^[66]

The sixth release, on Could 31, 2018, was a defend of "Helpless" by The Regrettes.^[67] Miranda credited Mike Elizondo, span producer who worked with probity band, as having suggested character idea, which he immediately accepted.^[68]

The seventh release, on June 18, 2018, was "Boom Goes justness Cannon..." by Mobb Deep.

Character song, which incorporates a model of the musical's "Right Jostle Man", was one of justness last recorded by Havoc slab Prodigy, before Prodigy's passing wealthy June 2017. Havoc expressed roam the release of the copy was "a great way agree to pay homage to [Prodigy] sit continue not only Mobb's heritage, but his as well".

Miranda dedicated it to Queensbridge.^[69]

The one-eighth release, "Rise Up, Wise Upgrade, Eyes Up" by French match Ibeyi, was released on Revered 31, 2018.^[70]

The ninth release, powerful "A Forgotten Spot (Olvidado)", attributes Puerto Rican singers Zion & Lennox, De La Ghetto, Vine Queen, PJ Sin Suela stall Lucecita Benítez.

It was on the rampage on September 20, 2018, soak Atlantic Records and Warner Sound Group. The song was inescapable by Miranda, along with leadership rest of the collaborators. Leadership song was released on distinction one-year anniversary of Hurricane Region which directly struck Puerto Law in 2017.^[71][72]

The tenth release, keen rendition of "Theodosia Reprise" insensitive to Sara Bareilles, debuted on interpretation eve of Halloween 2018.

Grasp featured show orchestrator Alex Lacamoire on piano and Questlove tip off The Roots on drums. Leadership song, sharing a moment 'tween Aaron Burr and his female child, was to appear in Play 2 but was cut be different the final production.^[73]

The eleventh undo was "Cheering For Me Now", an original song with descant by John Kander and angry exchange by Miranda based on distinction 1788 Federal Procession in Original York City.

It was loose on November 20, 2018. Prestige release features Miranda performing brand Alexander Hamilton and an posture by Alex Lacamoire.^[74]

On December 20, 2018, the final song was released. "One Last Time (44 Remix)" features the vocals style original Broadway portrayer of Martyr Washington, Christopher Jackson, gospel topmost R&B singer BeBe Winans, esoteric former US president Barack Obama, reciting the lines from Martyr Washington's farewell address.

It levelheaded based on "One Last Time" with a revamped gospel raise of music. The 44 provide the title stands for Obama being the 44th president matching the United States.

Background

While dash something off vacation from performing in consummate hit Broadway show In excellence Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda read on the rocks copy of the 2004 chronicle Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow.

After finishing the first hardly any chapters, Miranda began to imagine the life of Hamilton owing to a musical, and researched necessarily a stage musical of Hamilton's life had been created: depreciation he found was that dialect trig play of Hamilton's story locked away been done on Broadway embankment 1917, starring George Arliss chimp Alexander Hamilton.^[75]

Miranda began a enterprise titled The Hamilton Mixtape.

Handling May 12, 2009, Miranda was invited to perform music vary In the Heights at honourableness White House Evening of Verse, Music and the Spoken Dialogue. Instead, he performed the culminating song from The Hamilton Mixtape, an early version of what would later become "Alexander Hamilton", Hamilton's opening number.

He burnt out a year after that manner on "My Shot", another prematurely number from the show.^[76]

Although Miranda took some dramatic license include recounting the events of Hamilton's life, both the story predominant the lyrics in the euphonic numbers were heavily researched. Visit of the songs included leisure pursuit the show contain lines begin the day directly from primary source record archive including personal letters and pristine documents such as The Politician Papers and the infamous Reynolds Pamphlet.^[77]

Miranda performed in a workroom production of the show, so titled The Hamilton Mixtape, afterwards the Vassar College and Pristine York Stage and FilmPowerhouse Theater^[78] on July 27, 2013.

Illustriousness workshop production was directed make wet Thomas Kail and musically required by Alex Lacamoire. The atelier consisted of the entirety expose the first act of birth show and three songs come across the second act. The shop was accompanied by Lacamoire confidence the piano. The cast numbered Miranda as Hamilton, Utkarsh Ambudkar as Burr, Christopher Jackson kind Washington, Daveed Diggs as Lafayette/Jefferson, Ana Nogueira as Eliza, Anika Noni Rose as Angelica, Javier Muñoz as Laurens, Presilah Nunez as Peggy/Maria, and Joshua Speechifier as Mulligan/Madison/King George.^[76]

Of the Vassar workshop cast, only three top cast members played in justness off-Broadway production: Miranda, Diggs, courier Jackson.

Ambudkar, who played Priest Burr at Vassar later assumed that while the part was written with him in see in your mind's eye, his alcoholism at the revolt led to him being replaced.^[79] The original off-Broadway cast afflicted to Broadway, except for Brian d'Arcy James, who was replaced by Jonathan Groff as Majesty George III.

In 2014, relative to was a workshop production entice the 52nd Street Project resources Miranda as Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr. as Burr, Diggs importation Lafayette/Jefferson, Phillipa Soo as Eliza, Renée Elise Goldsberry as Herb, Anthony Ramos as Laurens/Philip, Okieriete Onaodowan as Mulligan/Madison, Ciara Renée as Peggy/Maria, James as Revision George III, and Isaiah Writer as Washington.

An audio tape of this production is disengaged on YouTube.^[80][81]

Productions

Off-Broadway (2015)

Directed by Poet Kail and choreographed by Nimblefingered Blankenbuehler, the musical received disloyalty world premiere off-Broadway at Picture Public Theater, under the direction of the Public's Artistic Administrator Oskar Eustis, with previews archetypal on January 20, 2015, viewpoint officially opening on February 17.^[82][83] The production was extended have qualms, first to April 5 captain then to May 3.^[84] Chernow served as historical consultant plug up the production.^[2][85] The show unbolt to universal acclaim according make somebody's acquaintance review aggregator Did He Aspire It.^[86]

According to New York Post gossip columnist Michael Riedel, grower Jeffrey Seller wanted to perception the show to Broadway in the past the end of the 2014–2015 season in order to capitalise on public interest in righteousness show and qualify for fitness for that year's Tony Glory (Seller had made a resembling decision as a producer tactic the musical Rent, which open off-Broadway in January 1996, advocate quickly moved to Broadway remark April); however, he was overruled by Miranda and Kail, primate Miranda wanted more time turn work on the show.^[87] Change made between off-Broadway and Platform included the cutting of not too numbers, a rewrite of Hamilton's final moments before his cool, and a cutting-down of class song "One Last Ride" (now titled "One Last Time") intelligence focus simply on Washington's ballot not to run for clean third term as president.^[88]

Broadway (2015–present)

Hamilton premiered on Broadway at nobleness Richard Rodgers Theatre (also residence to Miranda's 2008 Broadway first showing In the Heights) on July 13, 2015, in previews, tell opened on August 6, 2015.^[89] As in the off-Broadway selling, the show is produced via Seller, Jill Furman and Straw Jacobs with sets by Painter Korins, costumes by Paul Tazewell, lighting by Howell Binkley captain sound by Nevin Steinberg.^[90]

The making was critically acclaimed and won 11 Tony Awards.^[89][91][92]

In April 2016, the cast reached an in step with the show's producers sue for a profit-sharing deal, an unwonted arrangement in theater.^[93]

On March 12, 2020, the show suspended bargain due to the COVID-19 global.

Performances resumed on September 14, 2021.^[94]

Chicago (2016–2020)

Hamilton began previews calm the CIBC Theatre in Port on September 27, 2016.^[95] Class Chicago production cast included Miguel Cervantes as Alexander Hamilton, Josue Henry as Aaron Burr, Karenic Olivo as Angelica Schuyler, Arianna Afsar as Eliza Schuyler, Alexanders Gemignani as King George Threesome, Jonathan Kirkland as George Educator, and Samantha Marie Ware gorilla Peggy/Maria Reynolds.^[96] On its cork in October, attended by framer Miranda, the Chicago production commonplace strongly positive reviews.^[97][98][99] The Port run closed on January 5, 2020, after 1,341 shows.^[100] Blue blood the gentry production grossed $400 million, forlorn the box office record fund theater in Chicago.

According utility Chris Jones, the success was made possible by the ascendant number of seats the CIBC Theatre holds and can convey title compared with, for example, justness show's smaller New York Acquaintance venue.^[101] Overall, "more than 2.6 million people took in City during its Chicago run", inclusive of the "31 thousand public educational institution students who saw it burn down the Hamilton Education Program".^[102]

North English touring productions (2017–present)

Angelica Tour (2017–2023, 2024-present) and Phillip Tour (2018–present)

Plans for a national tour relief Hamilton emerged near the location of January 2016.

The thread was initially announced with concluded 20 stops, scheduled from 2017 through at least 2020.^[103] Tickets to the tour's run get round San Francisco—its debut city—sold dirt within 24 hours of release; the number of people who entered the online waiting time to purchase tickets surpassed 110,000.^[104] The first national touring interchange began preview performances at San Francisco's SHN Orpheum Theatre avail yourself of March 10, 2017, and formally opened on March 23.

Righteousness production ran in San Francisco until August 5, when business transferred to Los Angeles's Screenland Pantages Theatre for a go briskly from August 11 to Dec 30, 2017.

Just days tail the first U.S. tour began performances in San Francisco, information emerged that a second U.S. tour of Hamilton would launch in Seattle for a six-week limited engagement before touring Polar America concurrently with the regulate tour.^[11] To distinguish the final and second touring productions, loftiness production team has labeled them, respectively, the "Angelica Tour" with the "Philip Tour".^[103]

The Philip silhouette began preview performances at representation Paramount Theatre in Seattle snare February 6, 2018, before legitimately opening on February 15, 2018.^[105]

The Angelica tour alone requires 14 truckloads of cargo and well-organized core group of over 60 traveling cast, crew, and musicians.^[103] The production team insisted ditch each tour must be well brought-up to duplicate the original Tier show's choreography, which literally revolves around two concentric turntables dupe the stage.^[103] This led chance on the construction of four movable sets, two for each outing, so that one set stool be assembled well in elicit at the next stop from the past the tour is still discharge at the last stop.^[103]

Hamilton premiered in Canada when the Prince tour began a planned three-month run at the Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto, Ontario interpretation February 11, 2020.^[106] The radio show was slated to run pending May 17, 2020, but was cancelled from March 14 franchise to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Angelica tour concluded its brisk pace on June 25, 2023, popular the Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré in Puerto Rico.^[107]

The Angelica tour re-opened hurry through September 4, 2024, at position Hollywood Pantages Theatre and problem currently running along with rectitude Phillip tour again after shipshape and bristol fashion resurgence of popularity for Hamilton.^[108]

Puerto Rico/San Francisco [And Peggy Tour] (2019–2023)

Producers announced the formation submit a third touring company playacting November 8, 2017, dubbed distinction "And Peggy Tour".^[109][110] It was to debut in a Jan 8–27, 2019 run at leadership University of Puerto Rico's Teatro UPR in San Juan, make sense Lin-Manuel Miranda reprising the christen role, then to become swell San Francisco production with a-one different lead.

The Teatro UPR stage, damaged by 2017's Tornado Maria, was repaired in span months-long restoration in anticipation regard the show.

On December 21, 2018, less than a four weeks away from opening night, salesman between the show's production accept the local faculty and stick union shifted the three-week date to the Luis A.

Ferré Performing Arts Center, and narrowing it by three days side January 11–27. This followed weeks of warnings from the unity of possible protests outside description theater over budget cuts depart the University of Puerto Law administration was considering that would affect university staff and employees.^[111] In response to the split of union and pro-statehood protestors, a line of police explicit outside the theater on cork night.^[112]

Miranda's performance in the Luis A.

Ferré Performing Arts Affections marked his return to nobility venue nine years after perform reprised the role of Usnavi for the San Juan poleax of the North American peregrinations production of In the Heights. The Tonight Show Starring Prize Fallon taped segments in Puerto Rico to help tourism, lone of them with the "And Peggy Tour" cast performing efficient version of "The Story draw round Tonight", where Jimmy Fallon married in as a second Alexanders Hamilton next to Miranda, unvarying the final song lyric face "they'll tell the story souk Tonight Show", and ending character performance with a salsa narration of Fallon's Tonight Show establishment song.

In a review endorse the Puerto Rico production, Chris Jones said Miranda's performance demonstrated "deeper on-stage emotions", as athletic as improved vocal and working out technique than on his conniving run on Broadway. Jones genius Miranda's "signature warmth" as athletic as Donald Webber Jr., vocation Webber's performance as Aaron Accent "exceptional".

The sold-out three-week meeting raised about $15 million shelter Miranda's Flamboyán Arts Fund, which benefits arts in Puerto Rico; the first beneficiary having archaic the restoration of the Teatro UPR, where the three-week clause would have originally taken place.^[113]

A filmed version of "Alexander Hamilton" was created featuring the Puerto Rico production and was shown as the final part endorsement Hamilton: The Exhibition in 2019.^[114]

Julius Thomas III took over depiction role of Alexander Hamilton conj at the time that the And Peggy tour false to San Francisco, where bring to a halt opened on February 21, 2019.^[115] Despite billing as a trip circuit (as is the common player convention with West Coast sit-down productions), the And Peggy Journey was fixed in San Francisco for a lengthy residency reach a compromise no scheduled traveling dates.

Probity San Francisco production was disposed a separate tab on rendering show's website from the one traveling North American tours. Description production stopped performances on Step 11, 2020, due to depiction COVID-19 Pandemic.^[116] The San Francisco production reopened on August 10, 2021, and closed on Sept 5, 2021, to resume touring.^[117] The And Peggy Company esoteric their final performance in Toronto on August 20, 2023.^[118]

Los Angeles [Eliza Tour] (2021–2022)

A new manufacturing in Los Angeles was infer run from March 12 be adjacent to November 22, 2020, at rank Hollywood Pantages Theatre, but was suspended on the date help its intended debut in plea to the coronavirus pandemic.^[119][120]

The struggle finally opened on August 27, 2021, and ran until Go by shanks`s pony 20, 2022.

It was denominated the Eliza Tour by illustriousness production team.^[121]

West End (2017–present)

Cameron Material produced a London production prowl re-opened the Victoria Palace Coliseum on December 21, 2017, later previews from December 6.^[9] Primary principal casting was announced subtract January 26, 2017.^[20] The Author production received strongly positive reviews.^[122]

The show was forced to reveal from March 16, 2020, exam to the COVID-19 pandemic stem England.

It was announced envisage June 2020 that it would not reopen until 2021.^[123] Get underway reopened on August 19, 2021^[124]

Australia (2021–2023)

Hamilton had its Australian debut at Sydney Lyric, with previews beginning March 17, 2021. Significance Australian company is led overstep Jason Arrow as Alexander City, Chloé Zuel as Eliza Mathematician, Lyndon Watts as Aaron Bur, Akina Edmonds as Angelica Schuyler, Matu Ngaropo as George President, Victory Ndukwe as Marquis stretch of time Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, Shaka Cook in that Hercules Mulligan/James Madison, Marty Alix as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton, Elandrah Eramiha as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Painter and Brent Hill as Monarch George III.^[125] The production was forced to suspend performances claim to Sydney's Second Wave always the COVID-19 pandemic on June 25, 2021.^[126] Performances resumed still October 19, following a best uptake in COVID-19 vaccines.^[127]

The drive opened in Melbourne at Stifle Majesty's Theatre on March 15, 2022, one year following glory opening in Sydney.^[128][129] The concert party performed a Ham4Ham show supremacy March 22, 2022, before decency official opening night on ethics 24th.

A mashup of iconic Australian songs mixed with loftiness Hamilton soundtrack was performed uncongenial the cast and written by way of Alex Lacamoire.^[130] The Melbourne manufacture received overwhelming positive reviews, extra Jason Arrow's performance praised, conform to The Age saying that Quarrel "wipes the floor with Miranda's performance in the Disney+ version".

Standby Tigist Strode performed birth role of Eliza on crack night and was also normal positively by reviewers.^[131] In Sep 2022, Sami Afuni took intellectual the role of Hercules Mulligan/James Madison whilst Rowan Witt united the company for the remains of the Melbourne Season type King George. The Melbourne stint ended on January 15, mass a nine-month run.^[132]

The Australian jaunt continued in 2023, playing take up the Lyric Theatre, QPAC hard cash Brisbane from January, where inlet concluded its run on Apr 23.^[132]

Hamburg (2022–2023)

According to a description in Forbes, Stage Entertainment proclaimed a German production in 2019 to open at the Operettenhaus in Hamburg.^[133][134] Originally scheduled defence November 2021,^[135] the opening was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[136] Previews started on Sept 24, 2022, and the inauguration night eventually took place go for October 6, 2022.^[14] It was the first official non-English run of the show.

The interpretation of the lyrics was ended by German musical author Kevin Schroeder and German rapper Sera Finale.^[137]

In March 2023 it was announced that the production longing end in October 2023 make something stand out only one year due comparable with disappointing ticket sales. The manual labor then closed on October 15, 2023.^[138]

International Tour (2023)

The Australian producers, Michael Cassel Group, announced settle international tour to commence soupзon Auckland, New Zealand at Glint Arena in May 2023.^[139] Birth production will feature the Aussie cast, and be the greatest to be staged in take in arena.

On March 28, 2023, through the GMG Productions group media pages, Miranda announced renounce the musical would have disloyalty Asian premiere in Manila, State, in September at the Solaire Resort & Casino's theatre.^[140] Integrity tour started previews in Camel on September 21, 2023, already having an opening night advantage November 11, 2023.

Several Continent cast members, including Jason Shaft indicator as Alexander Hamilton, returned championing the first Asian production, Dignity Manila run of the acquire performed there until November 26, 2023. Filipino actress Rachelle Ann Go reprised her role translation Eliza from the original Westbound End production.^[141] After the Paper run, the production moved restrict Abu Dhabi in 2024, swing it ran from January 17 to February 11 at blue blood the gentry Etihad Arena.^[142] Subsequently, the event will be transferred to Island starting on April 19 change the Sands Theatre, Marina Niche Sands.^[143]

UK and Ireland Tour (2023)

A UK and Ireland tour began at the Palace Theatre, City on November 11, 2023, beforehand it will be touring test Edinburgh, Bristol, Birmingham, Dublin, Capital, Bradford, Southampton, Liverpool, Sunderland, Town and Norwich.^[144] The full ticket was announced on 21 Sept, with Shaq Taylor taking formulate the titular role.^[145]

Box office playing field business

Opening and box office records

Hamilton's off-Broadway engagement at The Be revealed Theater was sold out,^[6] forward when the musical opened expound Broadway, it had a multimillion-dollar advance in ticket sales, reportedly taking in $30 million before neat official opening.^[146]

By September 2015, leadership show was sold out school most of its Broadway engagement.^{[147][148][149][150]} It was the second-highest-grossing fair on Broadway for the Class Day week ending September 6, 2015 (behind only The Champion King).^[7]

Hamilton set a Broadway coffer office record for the important money grossed in a celibate week in New York Entitlement in late November 2016, as it grossed $3.3 million for brainchild eight-performance week, the first point up to break $3 million in plague performances.^[151]

Ticket lottery and Ham4Ham

Hamilton, adore some other Broadway musicals, offers a ticket lottery before evermore show.

Initially, 21 front-row seating (and occasional standing room tickets) were offered in each drawing. Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda began preparing and hosting outdoor mini-performances shortly before each daily depiction, allowing lottery participants to practice a part of the trade show even when they did turn on the waterworks win tickets.^[152] These were entitled the "Ham4Ham" shows, because draw winners were given the size to purchase two tickets press-gang the reduced price of lone Hamilton ($10 bill) each.

The online theatrical journal HowlRound defined Ham4Ham as an expression have a high opinion of Miranda's cultural background:

Ham4Ham comes next a long tradition of Latina/o (or the ancestors of contemporaneous Latina/os) theatremaking that dates accent to when the events efficient Hamilton were happening. ...

The conclusions behind this is simple. Theorize the people won't come roughly the theatre, then take character theatre to the people. Extent El Teatro Campesino's 'taking hose down to the streets' originated steer clear of a place of social item, Ham4Ham does so to commit to paper accessibility, tap into social telecommunications, and ultimately generate a laidback, self-functioning marketing campaign.

In that way, Ham4Ham falls into uncomplicated lineage of accessibility as neat as a pin Latina/o theatremaking aesthetic.^[153]

As a liquid of the Ham4Ham shows, Hamilton's lottery drew unusually large number of people who created push on West 46th Street.^[154] Class avoid increasingly dangerous crowding point of view traffic conditions, an online pass lottery began operating in inappropriate January 2016.^[154] On the eminent day of the online tombola, more than 50,000 people entered, crashing the website.^[155]

After Miranda evaluate the show on July 9, 2016, Rory O'Malley, then demeanour King George III, took carry out as the host of Ham4Ham.^[156] The Ham4Ham show officially finished on August 31, 2016, afterward more than a year cataclysm performances.^[157] The online lottery continuing, with an official mobile app released in August 2017 mosey expanded the lottery by hand over tickets for touring productions behove Hamilton as well as distinction Broadway show.^[158]

Critical response

Marilyn Stasio, bring to fruition her review of the off-Broadway production of the show sort Variety, wrote, "The music critique exhilarating, but the lyrics conniving a big surprise.

The beyond your understanding, as well as the voice of the sung dialogue, has been purposely suited to dressingdown character. George Washington, a deliberate figure in Jackson's dignified program, sings in polished prose. ... Encroach the end, Miranda's impassioned narration of one man's story becomes the collective narrative of swell nation, a nation built soak immigrants who occasionally need accede to be reminded where they came from."^[159]

In his review of blue blood the gentry off-Broadway production, Jesse Green lead to New York wrote, "The fray between independence and interdependence research paper not just the show's investigation but also its method: Diet brings the complexity of organization a union from disparate constituencies right to your ears. ...

Cowed are the theatergoers who inclination be familiar with all elaborate Miranda's touchstones. I caught goodness verbal references to Rodgers lecture Hammerstein, Gilbert and Sullivan, [Stephen] Sondheim, West Side Story, skull 1776, but other people abstruse to point out to upper the frequent hat-tips to hip-hop ... Whether it's a watershed, dexterous breakthrough, and a game-changer, in the same way some have been saying, in your right mind another matter.

Miranda is as well savvy (and loves his ancestors too much) to try dressingdown reinvent all the rules better once. ... Those duels, by rank way—there are three of them—are superbly handled, the highlights atlas a riveting if at days overbusy staging by the full of yourself Thomas Kail and the choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler."^[160]

Although giving a convinced review, Elisabeth Vincentelli, of depiction New York Post (which was founded by Hamilton himself), wrote that Hamilton and Burr's love/hate relationship "fails to drive prestige show—partly because Miranda lacks magnanimity charisma and intensity of integrity man he portrays", and delay "too many of the book are exposition-heavy lessons, as hypothesize this were 'Schoolhouse Rap!' Honesty show is burdened with eye-glazingly dull stretches, especially those nigh George Washington."^[161]

Reviewing the Broadway drive in The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote, "I joy loath to tell people design mortgage their houses and undo their children to acquire tickets to a hit Broadway wellknown.

But Hamilton, directed by Clockmaker Kail and starring Mr. Miranda, might just about be flora and fauna it...Washington, Jefferson, Madison—they're all there, making war and writing constitutions and debating points of budgetary structure. So are Aaron Vernacular and the Marquis de Soldier. They wear the clothes (by Paul Tazewell) you might recommend them to wear in elegant traditional costume drama, and goodness big stage they inhabit has been done up (by King Korins) to suggest a period-appropriate tavern, where incendiary youth brawn gather to drink, brawl keep from plot revolution."^[89]

Melanie McFarland of Salon.com wrote, "Enthralling [and] uplifting".^[162]

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