BWW Flashback: They're Non-Stop! Follow HAMILTON's Road to Broadway

By: Jul. 14, 2015
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Alexander Hamilton, "the ten-dollar Founding Father without a father," comes to Broadway in the new musical HAMILTON, which just began previews last night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 W. 46 St.). To celebrate the start of performances, we are flashing back to the show's road to the stage!

HAMILTON is inspired by the book AlexanderHamilton by Ron Chernow and features book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and direction by Thomas Kail, who previously collaborated on IN THE HEIGHTS.

From the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning In The Heights comes a wildly inventive new musical about the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America: Alexander Hamilton. Tony and Grammy Award winnerLin-Manuel Miranda wields his pen and takes the stage as the unlikely founding father determined to make his mark on a new nation as hungry and ambitious as he is. From bastard orphan to Washington's right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country's first sex scandal to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, Hamilton is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelong Hamilton friend and foe, Aaron Burr, all attend this revolutionary tale of America's fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we've become. Tony Award nomineeThomas Kail directs this new musical about taking your shot, speaking your mind, and turning the world upside down.


Miranda started working on the new musical years ago, and performed at sneak peek at the White House Poetry Jam in 2009:

Rehearsals began for the Off Broadway run in 2014:


Lin-Manuel Miranda


Phillipa Soo and Jon Rua


Lin-Manuel Miranda


Director Thomas Kail, orchestrator and Music Director Alex Lacamoire, choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, associate choreographer Stephanie Klemons, and Leslie Odom Jr.

Renée Elise Goldsberry


Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail


Brian d'Arcy James and Thomas Kail


Leslie Odom Jr.


Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Okieriete Onaodowan, and Daveed Diggs


Lin-Manuel Miranda and company


Lin-Manuel Miranda and company


Christopher Jackson

Previews began at the Public Theater or January 20, 2015:


Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos, and Lin-Manuel Miranda


Phillipa Soo and Lin-Manuel Miranda


Lin-Manuel Miranda and company


Lin-Manuel Miranda and company


Daveed Diggs, Anthony Ramos, Carleigh Bettiol, and Thayne Jasperson


Lin-Manuel Miranda and company


Carleigh Bettiol, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., and Anthony Ramos


Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Jasmine Cephas Jones


Lin-Manuel Miranda


Daveed Diggs and Lin-Manuel Miranda


Lin-Manuel Miranda (foreground) and Phillipa Soo


Christopher Jackson


Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos, and Lin-Manuel Miranda


Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, and company members


Renee Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, and company members


Brian d'Arcy James and the company of Hamilton


Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and Renee Elise Goldsberry

It opened on February 17, 2015:


The cast of HAMILTON


The cast of HAMILTON


The cast of HAMILTON


The cast of HAMILTON


Leslie Odom, Jr., Phillipa Soo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christopher Jackson


Andy Blankenbuehler, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Alex Lacamoire


Lin-Manuel Miranda


Andy Blankenbuehler, Ron Chernow, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Oskar Eustis, Thomas Kail, Alex Lacamoire


Leslie Odom, Jr.


Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr.


Brian d'Arcy James


Christopher Jackson


Jon Rua, Javier Munoz, Thayne Jasperson, Ephraim Sykes, Seth Stewart


Daveed Diggs, Anthony Ramos, Okierete Onaodowan


Renee Elise Goldsberry, Ariana DeBose, Betsy Struxness, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Phillipa Soo, Alysha Deslorieux, Carleigh Bettiol, Sasha Hutchings, Stephanie Klemons


Voltaire Wade-Greene, Sydney James Harcourt, Andrew Chappelle


Renee Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas Jones
Jasmine Cephas Jones

On February 24, it was announced that the show would transfer to Broadway this summer:

Rehearsals for Broadway began in mid-June:


The Hamilton creative team: Andy Blankenbuehler (choreography), Lin-Manuel Miranda (book, music, and lyrics), Alex Lacamoire (musical supervision and orchestrations), and Thomas Kail (director)


"Hamilton" cast members, Leslie Odom Jr., Javier Munoz, Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs and Christopher Jackson


Principal cast members: Jasmine Cephas Jones, Leslie Odom Jr., Anthony Ramos, Javier Munoz, Okieriete Onaodowan, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Daveed Diggs, and Christopher Jackson


The Hamilton creative team: Andy Blankenbuehler (choreography), Lin-Manuel Miranda (book, music, and lyrics), Alex Lacamoire (musical supervision and orchestrations), and Thomas Kail (director)


Jasmine Cephas Jones, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo


Jasmine Cephas Jones, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo


Hamilton producers Sander Jacobs, Jeffrey Seller, Jill Furman, and Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis


Hamilton producers Sander Jacobs, Jeffrey Seller, Jill Furman, and Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis


Lin-Manuel Miranda


Lin-Manuel Miranda


Lin-Manuel Miranda


Lin-Manuel Miranda


David Korins, Nevin Steinberg and Paul Tazewell


Ensemble cast members


Ensemble and principal cast members


Ensemble and principal cast members


Lin-Manuel Miranda


The Hamilton creative team: Andy Blankenbuehler (choreography), Lin-Manuel Miranda (book, music, and lyrics), Alex Lacamoire (musical supervision and orchestrations), and Thomas Kail (director)

Previews began just last night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it will open on August 6:




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