The West End production opened at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London on December 21, 2017, following previews from December 6 and winning seven Olivier Awards in 2018, including Best New Musical. The Chicago production of Hamilton began preview performances at the CIBC Theatre in September 2017 and opened the following month. A filmed version of the Broadway production was released in 2020 on Disney+. It received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. At the 70th Tony Awards, Hamilton received a record-breaking 16 nominations and won 11 awards, including Best Musical. It then transferred to the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway, opening on August 6, 2015, where it received uniformly positive reviews and high box office sales. The musical won eight Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Musical. It premiered Off-Broadway on February 17, 2015, at the Public Theater in Lower Manhattan, with Miranda playing the role of Alexander Hamilton, where its several-month engagement was sold out. Miranda described Hamilton as about "America then, as told by America now." įrom its opening, Hamilton received near-universal acclaim. It casts non-white actors as the Founding Fathers of the United States and other historical figures. The show draws heavily from hip hop, as well as R&B, pop, soul, and traditional-style show tunes. Miranda says Hamilton was originally a hip hop album in his head. Miranda said that he was inspired to write the musical after reading the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. Composed over a seven-year period from 2008 to 2015, the musical tells the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton is a sung-and-rapped-through musical by the American composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda. L–R: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr., and Christopher Jackson Cast members perform selections from the musical at the White House, 2016.
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