This features as diverse a cast as the many musical styles that Miranda employs. An absolute highlight of this show, the dance and movement features all the sharp athletic precision and beauty of the original.
Broadway’s superb, Tony Award-winning Andy Blankenbuehler once again choreographs this touring production.
That same precision and soulful direction is in the New York production. He cleverly stages his actors and provides the necessary guidance and focus to make this show a surefire hit. This mostly sung-through musical, with actually very little spoken dialogue, is artistically directed by accoladed Broadway director Thomas Kail. The demand to see this musical has made it the most anticipated and talked-about show since “The Book of Mormon.” And, primarily because it employs a musical score that features rap, hip hop, jazz, as well as traditional pop ballads, it’s achieved the impossible: “Hamilton” has generated a theatergoing mania among today’s most reluctant audience age group-teens and tweens. The original production made superstars out of its once unknown original cast, and even the excellent Broadway replacement companies continue to draw standing room only audiences. Miranda’s book, music and lyrics comprise his highly creative, uniquely contemporary historical drama-with-songs-and-movement. Little did Miranda realize at the time what an international blockbuster this new show would become. Chernow’s book sparked an idea for a song, and then an entire musical, similar to the hip hop style of his earlier Broadway hit. Instantly Miranda became inspired by the story of an orphan who immigrated to the Colonies in the 1700’s and worked his way up the ladder to success, all during one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. By chance he picked up Chernow’s book in the airport. Well, playwright, composer and lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda was on vacation from his first hit Broadway musical, “In the Heights,” for which he also wrote and starred. But how did a musical about one America’s lesser-known Founding Fathers become such a huge hit? The most anyone remembers about Alexander Hamilton is that he was part of our country’s early government and he was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. Every singleĪctor/singer/dancer in this new National Tour is a star.įor anyone who’s been living under a rock for the past eight years, the show is a cutting edge, contemporary musical adaptation of Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton. This entire cast is a spirited, uber talented and earnest company of performers. From the very first note and lyric, the stage bursts with a fresh, vibrant energy. And it’s every bit as good, if not better in some ways, than the New York original. And fear not: this is not a substandard, nonunion bus-and-truck touring version, but another long-running, Equity Production of the original show. The show that’s been called the greatest musical of this generation has opened once again in Chicago, this time at the glorious Nederlander Theatre. The production won every one of Broadway’s highest accolades, including 11 Tony Awards and even the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s magnificent musical was the obvious shoo-in for the title of Best Musical of 2016.
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