![]() Īfter 33 previews, and with record advance ticket sales in the tens of millions (sources differ between $32 million and $57 million), Hamilton officially opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers on August 16, 2015. Many of the Ham4Ham performances were documented and shared on YouTube by writer and producer Howard Sherman. He performed for the next crowd the next day, and #Ham4Ham - performances at the stage door by Lin-Manuel Miranda, cast members, and a variety of surprise guests - became a regular feature on the Wednesday and Saturday lottery draws. On July 13, 2015, over 700 people showed up to enter the lottery, and, reportedly moved by the crowd, Lin-Manuel Miranda made a speech from the stage door. When Hamilton transferred to Broadway, tickets were in such demand, a lottery called Ham4Ham (providing $10 seats in the front row) was instituted from the first day previews. The off-Broadway production won multiple awards, including the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Book of a Musical, Outstanding New Score, and Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical. Critics also delighted at how much fun they had in being served a history lesson. The off-Broadway try-out was a smash hit and extended its run three times.Ĭritics lavished praise on Lin-Manuel’s eclectic score and the masterfully-complex, yet evocative and stirring, story-telling. (Aaron Burr), Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan, James Madison), Anthony Ramos (John Laurens, Phillip Hamilton), Jon Rua (Ensemble), Phillipa Soo (Eliza Hamilton), Seth Stewart (Ensemble), Betsy Struxness (Ensemble), Ephraim Sykes (Ensemble), and Voltaire Wade-Greene (Swing). The complete cast included (in alphabetical order) Carleigh Bettiol (Ensemble), Andrew Chappelle (Swing), Ariana DeBose (Ensemble), Alysha Deslorieux (Swing), Daveed Diggs (Marquis De Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler), Sydney James Harcourt (Ensemble), Sasha Hutchings (Ensemble), Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Brian d'Arcy James (King George), Thayne Jasperson (Ensemble), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler, Maria Reynolds), Stephanie Klemons (Swing), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton), Javier Muñoz (Hamilton Standby), Leslie Odom Jr. It was produced for $1.7 million through an “enhancement deal” - Broadway producers covered the cost of the run, and the Public would receive a percentage of the income if the musical succeeded on Broadway. Over the course of the weekend, the show was performed 4 times to a total audience of about 600 people and quickly generated buzz as the next hot thing in theatre.Īfter a month of previews, Hamilton opened off-Broadway at the Public Theater on February 17, 2015. The musical, now titled Hamilton, was given its first full performance on at the 52nd Street Project. In December 2013, The Hamilton Mixtape began workshops through the Public Theater. ![]() ![]() In the summer of 2013, the musical was given a week-long workshop at Vassar College through the New York Stage and Film developmental series. Reviewer Led Black enthused “‘The Alexander Hamilton Mixtape’ quite simply and sublimely brings history to life, resuscitating, revitalizing and remixing it with the energy and zeal of the Hip-Hop aesthetic.” The cast included Jon Rua (Thomas Jefferson), James Monroe Iglehart (James Madison), Utkarsh Ambudkar (Aaron Burr), Chris Jackson (George Washington), Gavin Creel (King George III), and Mandy Gonzales. On January 11, 2012, coincidentally Alexander Hamilton’s 225th birthday, 12 songs from The Hamilton Mixtape were performed in the Allen Room as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook concert series. Shortly after, Lincoln Center invited Miranda to perform in their American Songbook concert series. Tommy Kail, director of In the Heights, asked to assist overseeing the The Hamilton Mixtape and to stage a “low-key” studio reading. ![]() Two years later, in June 2011, Lin-Manuel Miranda performed a second song from the mixtape, “My Shot,” at the Ars Nova annual benefit. On May 12, 2009, Lin-Manuel Miranda, along with musical director Alex Lacamoire, performed the opening song from the mixtape at the White House as part of “An Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word.” ![]()
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