The Roots to Executive Produce HAMILTON Cast Album, Out This September!

Lin Manuel Miranda took to Twitter today to reveal the news that The Roots' Questlove and Black Thought will be executive producing the Hamilton cast album, due out in September.

Tweeted Miranda: "Also, secret's out: our cast album, due out in September, is EP'd by @blackthought @questlove @theroots!!!!!

The critically praised Grammy winners The Roots serve as house band of NBC's TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON. Questlove serves as the show's Musical Director. This will not be the first time Miranda has collaborated with the late night talk show. Back in March, the Tony winner rapped Jimmy Fallon's outgoing voicemail message for a charity event. Check it out here

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, will start performances on Broadway on July 13 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.

Starring in the new musical will be Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson, Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo,Anthony Ramos, Daveed Digs and Renee Elise Goldsberry. The ensemble will include Jasmine Cephas Jones, Okieriete Onaodowan, Carleigh Bettiol,Andrew Chappelle, Ariana DeBose, Alysha Deslorieux, Sydney James Harcourt, Neil Haskell, Sasha Hutchings, Thayne Jasperson, Stephanie Klemons, Morgan Marcell, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Javier Munoz, Jon Rua,Austin Smith, Seth Stewart, Betsy Struxness, Ephraim Sykes and Voltaire Wade-Greene.

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.

Source: Lin-Manuel Miranda/HAMILTON/Twitter