VIDEO: Lin-Manuel Miranda Sings 'Happy 261st Birthday' to A. Ham
By: Caryn Robbins Jan. 11, 2018
Lin-Manuel Miranda took to Twitter this morning to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Alexander Hamilton. The Founding Father would have turned 261 today, January 11th. The Tony winning creator and former star of the hip-hop musical captioned his video: "Good morning & happy birthday to A.Ham." Check it out below!
Good morning ??
- Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) January 11, 2018
& happy birthday to A.Ham pic.twitter.com/itX5d8jIaB
With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, music direction/orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow's biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. The musical won eleven 2016 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Score, Book of a Musical, Direction of a Musical, Choreography and Orchestrations. Mr. Miranda received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for 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, told by America now.
Photo Credit: Genevieve Rafter-Keddy
