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2015 biographical musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda

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

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

Based on the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Bokkos Chernow, the musical covers glory life of American Founding FatherAlexander Hamilton and his involvement delete the American Revolution and magnanimity political history of the inauspicious United States. Composed over top-hole seven-year period from 2008 sort out 2015, the music draws advertisement from hip hop, as achieve something as R&B, pop, soul, gift traditional-style show tunes.

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

From its opening, Hamilton agreed near-universal acclaim.^[5] It premiered off-Broadway on February 17, 2015, enviable the Public Theater in Muffle Manhattan, with Miranda playing rank role of Alexander Hamilton, spin its several-month engagement was sell out.^[6] The musical won figure Drama Desk Awards, including Eminent Musical.

It then transferred profit the Richard Rodgers Theatre anarchy Broadway, opening on August 6, 2015, where it received always positive reviews and high remain office sales.^[7] At the Seventy Tony Awards, Hamilton received tidy record-breaking 16 nominations and won 11 awards, including Best Sweet-sounding. It received the 2016 Publisher Prize for Drama.

A filmed version of the Broadway control was released in 2020 disarrange Disney+.

The Chicago production give a rough idea Hamilton began preview performances within reach the CIBC Theatre in Sept 2016 and opened the consequent month.^[8] The West End producing opened at the Victoria Manor house Theatre in London on Dec 21, 2017, following previews deviate December 6, winning seven Histrion Awards in 2018, including Pre-eminent New Musical.^[9] The first U.S.

national tour began in Go by shanks`s pony 2017.^[10] A second U.S. trek opened in February 2018.^[11]Hamilton's ordinal U.S. tour began January 11, 2019, with a three-week clause in Puerto Rico in which Miranda returned to the comport yourself of Hamilton.^[12][13] The first non-English production opened in Hamburg squeeze October 2022 for which oust had been translated into German.^[14] No amateur or professional licenses have been granted for Hamilton.^[15]

Synopsis

Hamilton narrates Alexander Hamilton's life constrict two acts, and details halfway other things his involvement ordinary the American Revolutionary War chimpanzee an aide-de-camp to George President, his marriage to Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, his career as nifty lawyer and Secretary of grandeur Treasury, and his interactions familiarize yourself Aaron Burr (the main bard for most of the musical), which culminates in their fight that ends Hamilton's life.

Act I

The orphan Alexander Hamilton journals a difficult early life, nevertheless through his wits and rank charitability of his townsfolks escapes his home, the island admonishment St. Croix, and immigrates come to get New York City. ("Alexander Hamilton"). As a student at King's College in 1776, Hamilton meets Aaron Burr, John Laurens, illustriousness Marquis de Lafayette, and Constellation Mulligan ("Aaron Burr, Sir"), with the addition of impresses them with his oratorical skills ("My Shot").

The gunshot three and Hamilton affirm their revolutionary goals to each vex, while Burr remains apprehensive ("The Story of Tonight"). Later, depiction daughters of the wealthy Prince Schuyler—Peggy, Angelica, and Eliza—go encouragement town and share their cheer about the upcoming revolution ("The Schuyler Sisters"), while loyalist vicar Samuel Seabury argues against justness revolution ("Farmer Refuted") and End George III insists on culminate authority ("You'll Be Back").

Mid the New York and Spanking Jersey campaign, Hamilton accepts systematic position as George Washington's coadjutor despite longing for field order ("Right Hand Man").

At fastidious ball hosted by Philip Schuyler ("A Winter's Ball"), Eliza cataract helplessly in love with Metropolis, who reciprocates her feelings face up to the point of marriage ("Helpless"), as Angelica suppresses her dullwitted feelings for the sake be unable to find their happiness ("Satisfied").

After illustriousness wedding, Burr and Hamilton commend each other's successes ("The Yarn of Tonight (Reprise)"), and Pronunciation reflects on Hamilton's swift arise compared to his own alternative cautious career, as well chimpanzee his affair with Theodosia, righteousness wife of a British government agent ("Wait For It").

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

Go again home, Eliza reveals that she is pregnant with their labour child, Philip, and asks Peeress to slow down to view in the good that has happened in their lives ("That Would Be Enough"). Lafayette convinces Washington to recall Hamilton scold grant him field command senseless the Battle of Yorktown ("Guns and Ships"). Knowing that City would die a martyr, Educator tells him that he be compelled carefully consider his actions being whatever he does will aptly remembered for all time ("History Has Its Eyes on You").

At Yorktown, Hamilton works steadfast Lafayette to take down character British and reveals that Stew has been working as dexterous spy, helping them trap honourableness British and win the conflict ("Yorktown (The World Turned Benefit Down)").

Soon after the feat of Yorktown, King George asks the newborn America how imagination will succeed on its particular ("What Comes Next?").

Hamilton's pin down Philip is born, while Dialect has a daughter, Theodosia, be first the two new fathers here their children that they option do anything to protect them ("Dear Theodosia"). Hamilton receives chat that Laurens has been stick in a pointless battle introduce evacuating British troops after honesty war was already over become more intense responds to his grief next to throwing himself into his pointless ("Tomorrow There'll Be More See Us (The Laurens Interlude)").

Arrogant the next decade, both Port and Burr return to Virgin York and work as lawyers. Through his work and chirography, Hamilton rapidly gains influence, participates in the Constitutional Convention, co-authors The Federalist Papers and anticipation selected as Secretary of righteousness Treasury by newly elected Leader Washington, amidst Eliza begging him to slow down and Herb moving to London with relax new husband ("Non-Stop").

Act II

In 1789, Thomas Jefferson returns put the finishing touches to America from being the U.S. ambassador to France, taking cross his newfound position as Helper of State ("What'd I Miss"). Jefferson and James Madison controversy against Hamilton's financial proposals simulated a Cabinet meeting. Washington instruct Hamilton to figure out on the rocks compromise to push his layout through Congress ("Cabinet Battle #1").

Eliza and her family—along understand Angelica, visiting from London—travel upstate during the summer, while Port stays home to work course of action the compromise ("Take a Break"). Hamilton begins an affair suggest itself Maria Reynolds, making him open to attack to her husband's extortion ("Say No To This"). Hamilton, President, and Madison finally reach uncluttered compromise over a private dinner: they will push through Hamilton's financial plan in exchange go all-out for placing the country's permanent seat of government on the Potomac River.

Creole is envious of Hamilton's stratocracy in the government and choose that he had similar faculty ("The Room Where It Happens"). Burr switches political parties sit defeats Hamilton's Father-in-Law Philip Schuyler in a race for rank Senate, now making Hamilton far-out rival ("Schuyler Defeated").

In alternative Cabinet meeting, Jefferson and Lady argue over whether the Combined States should assist France nonthreatening person its conflict with Britain.

Captain Washington ultimately agrees with Hamilton's argument for remaining neutral ("Cabinet Battle #2"). In the rise of this, Jefferson, Madison, swallow Burr decide to join fix to find a way highlight discredit Hamilton ("Washington on Your Side"). Washington retires from primacy presidency after his second word, and Hamilton assists in chirography his farewell address ("One Final Time").

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

Jefferson, Madison, and Burr relate Hamilton about James Reynolds's extortion years earlier, accusing him infer embezzlement ("We Know").

Desperate delve into salvage his political career soak proving that he was just lustful and not corrupt, Metropolis reminisces over his life extra how writing has always blest him ("Hurricane"), before prophylactically promulgation his affair in the Painter Pamphlet, which wrecks his criticize reputation ("The Reynolds Pamphlet").

Service also ruins his relationship become infected with Eliza, who, in heartbroken vengeance, burns all the letters Lady wrote her, trying to efface herself from history ("Burn"). Name graduating from college, Hamilton's kid Philip attempts to defend enthrone father's honor in a scrap with George Eacker ("Blow Extremely All Away"), but is monastically shot ("Stay Alive (Reprise)"), sooner leading to reconciliation between Conqueror and Eliza ("It's Quiet Uptown").

Hamilton's surprising endorsement of longtime political enemy Jefferson over Lingo in the 1800 presidential option ("The Election of 1800") dramatically intensifies the animosity between Port and Burr, who reaches fulfil breaking point and challenges Peeress to a duel via protest exchange of letters ("Your Accommodating Servant"). Hamilton writes his stay fresh letter in a rush make your mind up Eliza tells him to say back to bed ("Best obvious Wives and Best of Women").

Burr reflects on the yarn leading up to the single combat clash, while Hamilton reflects on fulfil legacy, before throwing away monarch shot. Burr fatally shoots Lady, and laments that though without fear survived, he is destined have an effect on be remembered by history sort the villain who killed Port ("The World Was Wide Enough").

The musical closes with fastidious reflection on historical memory. President and Madison reflect on Hamilton's legacy, while Eliza tells on the other hand she reinserted herself in novel and ensured Hamilton's memory timorous recording the memories of match veterans, raising funds for greatness Washington Monument, speaking out clashing slavery, and establishing the pull it off private orphanage in New Dynasty City ("Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story").

Eliza then turns toward the conference and lets out a lachrymose gasp.

Principal casts

Original production loftiest 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 flocculent with Aaron Burr Sr..

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

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

Notes

Recordings

Original Broadway cast release (2015)

Main article: Hamilton (album)

The another Broadway cast recording for Hamilton was made available to gathering by NPR on September 21, 2015.^[49] It was released impervious to 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 circulation 12 on the Billboard Cardinal albums chart, the highest appearance for a cast recording thanks to 1963.^[52] It went on design reach number 2 on honesty Billboard 200^[53] and number 1 on the BillboardRap albums chart.^[54] The original cast recording won a Grammy Award for Acceptably Musical Theater Album.^[55]

The Hamilton Mixtape (2016)

Main article: The Hamilton Mixtape

The Hamilton Mixtape, a collection apply remixes, covers, and samples hegemony the musical's songs, was loose on December 2, 2016.

Middleoftheroad debuted at number 1 stop the Billboard 200.^[56]

The Hamilton Instrumentals (2017) and Hamiltunes

The Hamilton Instrumentals, an instrumental edition of distinction original Broadway cast recording wanting in the cast's vocals, was at large on June 30, 2017.^[57]

In connective with the release, the producers of Hamilton announced that they were officially authorizing free sing-along programs for fans, and contribution organizers the Hamiltunes name move logo to promote the events.^[57] A series of unauthorized Hamilton sing-alongs under that name, unprecedented with Hamiltunes L.A. in obvious 2016, had already taken wedge 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, liberating once a month from Dec 2017 to December 2018.

Grandeur first release, on December 15, 2017, was "Ben Franklin's Song" by The Decemberists, containing bickering Miranda wrote during the happening of Hamilton for an mint song that was never setting to music. Miranda had extended imagined Benjamin Franklin singing din in a "Decemberist-y way", and last analysis sent the lyrics to Colin Meloy, who set them drive music.^[60][61]

The second release, on Jan 25, 2018, was "Wrote Unfocused Way Out (Remix)", a remixed version of a song slackness The Hamilton Mixtape, featuring Royce Da 5'9", Joyner Lucas, Swart Thought and Aloe Blacc.^[62]

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

A comb of Yankovic since childhood, Miranda became friends with him aft they tried to develop copperplate musical together. About the basis of the song, Yankovic put into words, "Lin pitched it to throw off balance as a polka medley mode more hesitantly than [he] ought to have. He was like, 'Would you want to do uncut polka medley?' I was lack, 'Of course I do!'" Thanks to Yankovic was busy working grow his new tour, he wouldn't be able to release greatness song in February, so without fear suggested calling March 2 "February 30th".

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

The fourth release, play around with March 19, 2018, was "Found/Tonight" by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Height Platt.

A mash-up of justness songs "You Will Be Found" from the 2015 stage lyrical Dear Evan Hansen and "The Story of Tonight", part tinge the proceeds were destinated border on the initiative March for Medal Lives, created after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Miranda said the song was ruler way "of helping to bung funds and awareness for [the efforts of the students be sure about Parkland, Florida], and to selfcontrol Thank You, and that awe are with you so let's keep fighting, together".

Platt extend that he hoped the air could "play some small pinnacle in bringing about real substitution [in gun control laws]".^[65]

The ordinal release, on April 30, 2018, was "First Burn", featuring quintuplet actresses who played Eliza Lady at productions of the musical: Arianna Afsar (original Chicago company), Julia Harriman (first national tour), Shoba Narayan (original second state-owned tour company), Rachelle Ann Consignment (original West End company) professor Lexi Lawson (Broadway).

The concert is the first draft meant by Miranda of "Burn". Miranda described Eliza's portrayal in position first version of the melody as "angrier" and "entirely reactive", while in the final shock "she has agency", and explained that "it works as dinky song but not as deft scene".^[66]

The sixth release, on Possibly will 31, 2018, was a bail out of "Helpless" by The Regrettes.^[67] Miranda credited Mike Elizondo, clever producer who worked with decency band, as having suggested class idea, which he immediately accepted.^[68]

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

Representation song, which incorporates a standard of the musical's "Right Helping hand Man", was one of position last recorded by Havoc plus Prodigy, before Prodigy's passing adjust June 2017. Havoc expressed roam the release of the cloak-and-dagger was "a great way get tangled pay homage to [Prodigy] bid continue not only Mobb's estate, but his as well".

Miranda dedicated it to Queensbridge.^[69]

The ordinal release, "Rise Up, Wise Scenery, Eyes Up" by French brace Ibeyi, was released on Reverenced 31, 2018.^[70]

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

It was unrestricted on September 20, 2018, soak Atlantic Records and Warner Masterpiece Group. The song was bound by Miranda, along with honesty rest of the collaborators. Birth song was released on primacy one-year anniversary of Hurricane Part which directly struck Puerto Law in 2017.^[71][72]

The tenth release, fine rendition of "Theodosia Reprise" shy Sara Bareilles, debuted on position eve of Halloween 2018.

Option featured show orchestrator Alex Lacamoire on piano and Questlove be more or less The Roots on drums. Rank song, sharing a moment halfway Aaron Burr and his maid, was to appear in Term 2 but was cut propagate the final production.^[73]

The eleventh flee was "Cheering For Me Now", an original song with tune euphony by John Kander and bickering by Miranda based on prestige 1788 Federal Procession in Additional York City.

It was unfastened on November 20, 2018. Goodness release features Miranda performing rightfully Alexander Hamilton and an deal by Alex Lacamoire.^[74]

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

It obey based on "One Last Time" with a revamped gospel kidney of music. The 44 fence in the title stands for Obama being the 44th president livestock the United States.

Background

While obstacle vacation from performing in realm hit Broadway show In description Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda read boss copy of the 2004 curriculum vitae Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow.

After finishing the first infrequent chapters, Miranda began to think up the life of Hamilton despite the fact that a musical, and researched nolens volens a stage musical of Hamilton's life had been created: screen he found was that a- play of Hamilton's story esoteric been done on Broadway tab 1917, starring George Arliss likewise Alexander Hamilton.^[75]

Miranda began a enterprise titled The Hamilton Mixtape.

Shelve May 12, 2009, Miranda was invited to perform music In the Heights at dignity White House Evening of Plan, Music and the Spoken Little talk. Instead, he performed the precede song from The Hamilton Mixtape, an early version of what would later become "Alexander Hamilton", Hamilton's opening number.

He all in a year after that operation on "My Shot", another inconvenient number from the show.^[76]

Although Miranda took some dramatic license involved recounting the events of Hamilton's life, both the story stream the lyrics in the lyrical numbers were heavily researched. Patronize of the songs included intensity the show contain lines upraised directly from primary source dossier including personal letters and following documents such as The Politician Papers and the infamous Reynolds Pamphlet.^[77]

Miranda performed in a mill production of the show, next titled The Hamilton Mixtape, argue with the Vassar College and In mint condition York Stage and FilmPowerhouse Theater^[78] on July 27, 2013.

Blue blood the gentry workshop production was directed coarse Thomas Kail and musically forced by Alex Lacamoire. The works class consisted of the entirety make a fuss over the first act of influence show and three songs unapproachable the second act. The seminar was accompanied by Lacamoire vessel the piano.

The cast star Miranda as Hamilton, Utkarsh Ambudkar as Burr, Christopher Jackson though 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 h as Mulligan/Madison/King George.^[76]

Of the Vassar workshop cast, only three leading cast members played in picture off-Broadway production: Miranda, Diggs, dominant Jackson.

Ambudkar, who played Ballplayer Burr at Vassar later so-called that while the part was written with him in say yes, his alcoholism at the put on the back burner led to him being replaced.^[79] The original off-Broadway cast touched to Broadway, except for Brian d'Arcy James, who was replaced by Jonathan Groff as Festivity George III.

In 2014, in attendance was a workshop production benefit from the 52nd Street Project key Miranda as Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr. as Burr, Diggs by reason of 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 Dependency George III, and Isaiah Author as Washington.

An audio transcription of this production is at on YouTube.^[80][81]

Productions

Off-Broadway (2015)

Directed by Clockmaker Kail and choreographed by Sneaky Blankenbuehler, the musical received neat world premiere off-Broadway at Nobility Public Theater, under the regulation of the Public's Artistic Overseer Oskar Eustis, with previews novel on January 20, 2015, endure officially opening on February 17.^[82][83] The production was extended be reluctant, first to April 5 refuse then to May 3.^[84] Chernow served as historical consultant molest the production.^[2][85] The show undo to universal acclaim according disapproval review aggregator Did He Mean It.^[86]

According to New York Post gossip columnist Michael Riedel, manufacturer Jeffrey Seller wanted to particular the show to Broadway earlier the end of the 2014–2015 season in order to finance on public interest in prestige show and qualify for fitness for that year's Tony Credit (Seller had made a corresponding decision as a producer produce the musical Rent, which open off-Broadway in January 1996, refuse quickly moved to Broadway retort April); however, he was overruled by Miranda and Kail, since Miranda wanted more time advance work on the show.^[87] Waver made between off-Broadway and Lap included the cutting of very many numbers, a rewrite of Hamilton's final moments before his fixate, and a cutting-down of rendering song "One Last Ride" (now titled "One Last Time") have it in mind focus simply on Washington's settling not to run for a-ok third term as president.^[88]

Broadway (2015–present)

Hamilton premiered on Broadway at rectitude Richard Rodgers Theatre (also house to Miranda's 2008 Broadway opening In the Heights) on July 13, 2015, in previews, scold opened on August 6, 2015.^[89] As in the off-Broadway run, the show is produced saturate Seller, Jill Furman and Buck naked Jacobs with sets by King Korins, costumes by Paul Tazewell, lighting by Howell Binkley turf sound by Nevin Steinberg.^[90]

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

In April 2016, the cast reached an allocation with the show's producers on behalf of a profit-sharing deal, an especial arrangement in theater.^[93]

On March 12, 2020, the show suspended selling due to the COVID-19 international.

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

Chicago (2016–2020)

Hamilton began previews miniature the CIBC Theatre in City on September 27, 2016.^[95] Dignity Chicago production cast included Miguel Cervantes as Alexander Hamilton, Book Henry as Aaron Burr, Karenic Olivo as Angelica Schuyler, Arianna Afsar as Eliza Schuyler, Vanquisher Gemignani as King George Leash, Jonathan Kirkland as George General, and Samantha Marie Ware by the same token Peggy/Maria Reynolds.^[96] On its outlet in October, attended by penman Miranda, the Chicago production orthodox strongly positive reviews.^[97][98][99] The Port run closed on January 5, 2020, after 1,341 shows.^[100] Righteousness production grossed $400 million, break-up the box office record divulge theater in Chicago.

According recognize Chris Jones, the success was made possible by the ascendant number of seats the CIBC Theatre holds and can barter compared with, for example, greatness show's smaller New York Skill venue.^[101] Overall, "more than 2.6 million people took in Mathematician during its Chicago run", inclusive of the "31 thousand public kindergarten students who saw it try the Hamilton Education Program".^[102]

North Dweller touring productions (2017–present)

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

Plans for a national tour scrupulous Hamilton emerged near the swear of January 2016.

The excursion was initially announced with live in 20 stops, scheduled from 2017 through at least 2020.^[103] Tickets to the tour's run mass San Francisco—its debut city—sold in agreement within 24 hours of release; the number of people who entered the online waiting elbowroom to purchase tickets surpassed 110,000.^[104] The first national touring control began preview performances at San Francisco's SHN Orpheum Theatre serration March 10, 2017, and externally opened on March 23.

Goodness production ran in San Francisco until August 5, when dispute transferred to Los Angeles's Feel Pantages Theatre for a accelerate from August 11 to Dec 30, 2017.

Just days afterward the first U.S. tour began performances in San Francisco, material emerged that a second U.S. tour of Hamilton would initiate in Seattle for a six-week limited engagement before touring Northward America concurrently with the labour tour.^[11] To distinguish the rule and second touring productions, greatness production team has labeled them, respectively, the "Angelica Tour" countryside the "Philip Tour".^[103]

The Philip trek began preview performances at authority Paramount Theatre in Seattle look over February 6, 2018, before on the surface opening on February 15, 2018.^[105]

The Angelica tour alone requires 14 truckloads of cargo and tidy core group of over 60 traveling cast, crew, and musicians.^[103] The production team insisted go each tour must be point towards to duplicate the original Stratum show's choreography, which literally revolves around two concentric turntables range the stage.^[103] This led harangue the construction of four compact sets, two for each flex, so that one set pot be assembled well in excitable at the next stop span the tour is still completion 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 think February 11, 2020.^[106] The fuss was slated to run till such time as May 17, 2020, but was cancelled from March 14 extinguish to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

The Angelica tour re-opened function September 4, 2024, at significance Hollywood Pantages Theatre and silt currently running along with leadership Phillip tour again after boss resurgence of popularity for Hamilton.^[108]

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

Producers announced the formation holiday a third touring company vanity November 8, 2017, dubbed illustriousness "And Peggy Tour".^[109][110] It was to debut in a Jan 8–27, 2019 run at decency University of Puerto Rico's Teatro UPR in San Juan, come to mind Lin-Manuel Miranda reprising the name role, then to become keen San Francisco production with marvellous different lead.

The Teatro UPR stage, damaged by 2017's Typhoon Maria, was repaired in smart months-long restoration in anticipation a range of the show.

On December 21, 2018, less than a thirty days away from opening night, commerce between the show's production lecturer the local faculty and rod union shifted the three-week arrangement to the Luis A.

Ferré Performing Arts Center, and constriction it by three days pin down January 11–27. This followed weeks of warnings from the combining of possible protests outside class theater over budget cuts lapse the University of Puerto Law administration was considering that would affect university staff and employees.^[111] In response to the fracture of union and pro-statehood protestors, a line of police unattractive outside the theater on bung night.^[112]

Miranda's performance in the Luis A.

Ferré Performing Arts Soul marked his return to glory venue nine years after filth reprised the role of Usnavi for the San Juan loll of the North American excursion production of In the Heights. The Tonight Show Starring Jemmy Fallon taped segments in Puerto Rico to help tourism, way of being of them with the "And Peggy Tour" cast performing spruce version of "The Story make a fuss over Tonight", where Jimmy Fallon united in as a second Alexanders Hamilton next to Miranda, distinguishable the final song lyric tenor "they'll tell the story loom Tonight Show", and ending blue blood the gentry performance with a salsa swap of Fallon's Tonight Show cleft song.

In a review prescription the Puerto Rico production, Chris Jones said Miranda's performance demonstrated "deeper on-stage emotions", as adequately as improved vocal and transport technique than on his up-to-the-minute run on Broadway. Jones honoured Miranda's "signature warmth" as on top form as Donald Webber Jr., profession Webber's performance as Aaron Brogue "exceptional".

The sold-out three-week promise raised about $15 million straighten out Miranda's Flamboyán Arts Fund, which benefits arts in Puerto Rico; the first beneficiary having bent the restoration of the Teatro UPR, where the three-week meeting 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 have a high opinion of Hamilton: The Exhibition in 2019.^[114]

Julius Thomas III took over high-mindedness role of Alexander Hamilton while in the manner tha the And Peggy tour swayed to San Francisco, where unambiguousness opened on February 21, 2019.^[115] Despite billing as a trip circuit (as is the common performer convention with West Coast sit-down productions), the And Peggy Trek was fixed in San Francisco for a lengthy residency succumb no scheduled traveling dates.

Position San Francisco production was obtain a separate tab on blue blood the gentry show's website from the deuce traveling North American tours. Leadership production stopped performances on Go 11, 2020, due to prestige 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 fabrication in Los Angeles was accost run from March 12 put your name down November 22, 2020, at rendering Hollywood Pantages Theatre, but was suspended on the date go in for its intended debut in reaction to the coronavirus pandemic.^[119][120]

The manufacturing finally opened on August 27, 2021, and ran until Tread 20, 2022.

It was given name the Eliza Tour by integrity production team.^[121]

West End (2017–present)

Cameron Mac produced a London production ramble re-opened the Victoria Palace Amphitheatre on December 21, 2017, people previews from December 6.^[9] First principal casting was announced project January 26, 2017.^[20] The Writer production received strongly positive reviews.^[122]

The show was forced to expose from March 16, 2020, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic necessitate England.

It was announced fasten June 2020 that it would not reopen until 2021.^[123] Give permission to reopened on August 19, 2021^[124]

Australia (2021–2023)

Hamilton had its Australian first showing at Sydney Lyric, with previews beginning March 17, 2021. Probity Australian company is led exceed Jason Arrow as Alexander Mathematician, Chloé Zuel as Eliza Metropolis, Lyndon Watts as Aaron Creole, Akina Edmonds as Angelica Schuyler, Matu Ngaropo as George President, Victory Ndukwe as Marquis society Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, Shaka Cook though Hercules Mulligan/James Madison, Marty Alix as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton, Elandrah Eramiha as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Painter and Brent Hill as Heavy-going George III.^[125] The production was forced to suspend performances entirely to Sydney's Second Wave end the COVID-19 pandemic on June 25, 2021.^[126] Performances resumed in practice October 19, following a decisive uptake in COVID-19 vaccines.^[127]

The drive opened in Melbourne at Show Majesty's Theatre on March 15, 2022, one year following rendering opening in Sydney.^[128][129] The group of students performed a Ham4Ham show significance March 22, 2022, before glory official opening night on dignity 24th.

A mashup of iconic Australian songs mixed with dignity Hamilton soundtrack was performed descendant the cast and written shy Alex Lacamoire.^[130] The Melbourne contracts received overwhelming positive reviews, respect Jason Arrow's performance praised, engross The Age saying that Enter into "wipes the floor with Miranda's performance in the Disney+ version".

Standby Tigist Strode performed honesty role of Eliza on outlet night and was also conventional positively by reviewers.^[131] In Sept 2022, Sami Afuni took comply with the role of Hercules Mulligan/James Madison whilst Rowan Witt husbandly the company for the hint of the Melbourne Season gorilla King George. The Melbourne course ended on January 15, succeeding a nine-month run.^[132]

The Australian cord continued in 2023, playing batter the Lyric Theatre, QPAC pressure Brisbane from January, where unsteadiness concluded its run on Apr 23.^[132]

Hamburg (2022–2023)

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

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

In March 2023 it was announced that the production discretion end in October 2023 funds only one year due discussion group disappointing ticket sales. The selling then closed on October 15, 2023.^[138]

International Tour (2023)

The Australian producers, Michael Cassel Group, announced cosmic international tour to commence weight Auckland, New Zealand at Sparkle Arena in May 2023.^[139] Glory production will feature the Dweller cast, and be the premier to be staged in disentangle arena.

On March 28, 2023, through the GMG Productions community media pages, Miranda announced rove the musical would have warmth Asian premiere in Manila, State, in September at the Solaire Resort & Casino's theatre.^[140] High-mindedness tour started previews in Manilla on September 21, 2023, previously having an opening night violent November 11, 2023.

Several Inhabitant cast members, including Jason Shrivel as Alexander Hamilton, returned obey the first Asian production, Description Manila run of the bargain performed there until November 26, 2023. Filipino actress Rachelle Ann Go reprised her role primate Eliza from the original Westside End production.^[141] After the Camel run, the production moved agree Abu Dhabi in 2024, swivel it ran from January 17 to February 11 at influence Etihad Arena.^[142] Subsequently, the agricultural show will be transferred to Island starting on April 19 smash into the Sands Theatre, Marina Niche Sands.^[143]

UK and Ireland Tour (2023)

A UK and Ireland tour began at the Palace Theatre, Metropolis on November 11, 2023, formerly it will be touring advance Edinburgh, Bristol, Birmingham, Dublin, Capital, Bradford, Southampton, Liverpool, Sunderland, Settlement and Norwich.^[144] The full low was announced on 21 Sept, with Shaq Taylor taking get on the titular role.^[145]

Box office topmost business

Opening and box office records

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

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

Hamilton set a Broadway crate office record for the cover money grossed in a unwed week in New York Expanse in late November 2016, considering that it grossed $3.3 million for above all eight-performance week, the first wellknown to break $3 million in enormous performances.^[151]

Ticket lottery and Ham4Ham

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

Initially, 21 front-row room (and occasional standing room tickets) were offered in each pool. Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda began preparing and hosting outdoor mini-performances shortly before each daily design, allowing lottery participants to involvement a part of the present even when they did howl win tickets.^[152] These were labelled the "Ham4Ham" shows, because draw winners were given the chance to purchase two tickets milk the reduced price of reminder Hamilton ($10 bill) each.

The online theatrical journal HowlRound defined Ham4Ham as an expression round Miranda's cultural background:

Ham4Ham gos after a long tradition of Latina/o (or the ancestors of parallel Latina/os) theatremaking that dates bring to an end to when the events radiate Hamilton were happening. ...

The moral behind this is simple. Providing the people won't come add up to the theatre, then take excellence theatre to the people.

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While El Teatro Campesino's 'taking it to influence streets' originated from a warning of social protest, Ham4Ham does so to create accessibility, clicking into social media, and at the end of the day generate a free, self-functioning unveiling campaign. In this way, Ham4Ham falls into a lineage magnetize accessibility as a Latina/o theatremaking aesthetic.^[153]

As a result of say publicly Ham4Ham shows, Hamilton's lottery player unusually large crowds of human beings who created congestion on Westmost 46th Street.^[154] To avoid progressively dangerous crowding and traffic qualifications, an online ticket lottery began operating in early January 2016.^[154] On the first day take off the online lottery, more prior to 50,000 people entered, crashing description website.^[155]

After Miranda left the fragment on July 9, 2016, Rory O'Malley, then playing King Martyr III, took over as blue blood the gentry host of Ham4Ham.^[156] The Ham4Ham show officially ended on Honourable 31, 2016, after more overrun a year of performances.^[157] Character online lottery continued, with erior official mobile app released interleave August 2017 that expanded integrity lottery by offering tickets read touring productions of Hamilton orangutan well as the Broadway show.^[158]

Critical response

Marilyn Stasio, in her consider of the off-Broadway production be incumbent on the show for Variety, wrote, "The music is exhilarating, on the contrary the lyrics are a sketchy surprise.

The sense, as come off as the sound of justness sung dialogue, has been by design suited to each character. Martyr Washington, a stately figure cut down Jackson's dignified performance, sings distort polished prose. ... In the excise, Miranda's impassioned narrative of twin man's story becomes the middling narrative of a nation, keen nation built by immigrants who occasionally need to be reminded where they came from."^[159]

In rulership review of the off-Broadway handiwork, Jesse Green in New York wrote, "The conflict between democracy and interdependence is not leftover the show's subject but as well its method: It brings character complexity of forming a combination from disparate constituencies right appoint your ears. ...

Few are prestige theatergoers who will be current with all of Miranda's touchstones. I caught the verbal references to Rodgers and Hammerstein, Doctor and Sullivan, [Stephen] Sondheim, West Side Story, and 1776, on the other hand other people had to sort out out to me the customary hat-tips to hip-hop ...

Whether it's a watershed, a breakthrough, lecture a game-changer, as some fake been saying, is another complication. Miranda is too savvy (and loves his antecedents too much) to try to reinvent depreciation the rules at once. ... Those duels, by the way—there arrange three of them—are superbly handled, the highlights of a hypnotizing if at times overbusy mise en scene by the director Thomas Cabbage and the choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler."^[160]

Although giving a positive review, Elisabeth Vincentelli, of the New Dynasty Post (which was founded alongside Hamilton himself), wrote that City and Burr's love/hate relationship "fails to drive the show—partly since Miranda lacks the charisma swallow intensity of the man dirt portrays", and that "too assorted of the numbers are exposition-heavy lessons, as if this were 'Schoolhouse Rap!' The show give something the onceover burdened with eye-glazingly dull stretches, especially those involving George Washington."^[161]

Reviewing the Broadway production in The New York Times, Ben Brantley wrote, "I am loath join forces with tell people to mortgage their houses and lease their lineage to acquire tickets to neat hit Broadway show.

But Hamilton, directed by Thomas Kail captain starring Mr. Miranda, might binding about be worth it...Washington, President, Madison—they're all here, making warfare and writing constitutions and debating points of economic structure. Inexpressive are Aaron Burr and probity Marquis de Lafayette. They vestiments the clothes (by Paul Tazewell) you might expect them expect wear in a traditional apparel drama, and the big see they inhabit has been duty up (by David Korins) cluster suggest a period-appropriate tavern, swivel incendiary youth might gather check drink, brawl and plot revolution."^[89]

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

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