VIDEO: HAMILTON Actresses Talk Female Empowerment on 'CBS This Morning'
By: Caryn Robbins Jun. 08, 2016
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On today's CBS THIS MORNING, Tony-nominated actresses Renée Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo along with Jasmine Cephas Jones shared their thoughts about working on the groundbreaking show. Hamilton.
Speaking on the material they get to sink their teeth into every night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, Renée Elise Goldsberry shared, "Such a great diagram of the thought process of a brilliant woman. And the cool thing about it is that it's not a woman from 2016. I don't know that we thought that these women that we're portraying thought in a way as revolutionary as we think we are and we know that they did now. And that's empowering to all women of all time I think." Watch the appearance below!
HAMILTON is the recipient of 16 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical. The show opened on August 6, 2016 at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre. The cast of Hamilton is comprised of Lin-Manuel Miranda (Alexander Hamilton), Daveed Diggs(Marquis De Lafayette,Thomas Jefferson), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler),Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Rory O'Malley (King George), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler, Maria Reynolds), Javier Muñoz (Hamilton alternate), Okieriete Onaodowan(Hercules Mulligan, James Madison), Leslie Odom, Jr. (Aaron Burr),Anthony Ramos(John Laurens, PhilipHamilton) and Phillipa Soo (Eliza Hamilton).
With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow's biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
HAMILTON is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation's first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway,HAMILTON is the story of America then, as told by America now.
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