Rialto Chatter: Is HAMILTON Broadway-Bound This Spring?

By: Feb. 23, 2015
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When the Public Theatre announced HAMILTON's third extension earlier this month, rumors (briefly) fizzled that the show would in fact transfer to Broadway in time for the 2015 Tony Awards eligibility cut off (April 23, 2015).

Just today, however, the Public announced a special event for tomorrow afternoon, at which the "HAMILTON creative team, producers and company along with the Public Theater staff at a special gathering to celebrate this new musical."

Could this mean that a Broadway transfer announcement is on its way? Check back tomorrow to find out!

The world premiere production of HAMILTON, inspired by the book "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow, with book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and directed by Thomas Kail is currently set to run through Sunday, May 3.

The complete cast features 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. (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).

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 winner Lin-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 nominee Thomas Kail directs this new musical about taking your shot, speaking your mind, and turning the world upside down.

Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski



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