DVR Alert - HAMILTON's Javier Munoz to Visit NBC's TODAY to Chat New Role
By: Caryn Robbins Jul. 08, 2016
Javier Muñoz, Lin-Manuel Miranda's alternate in the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton on Broadway, will step into the title role starting July 11 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Today, NBC announced that the actor will appear on TODAY on Tuesday, July 12 between 10 - 11 am/ET to discuss his new leading role. BWW will bring you video of the appearance as soon as it becomes available.
Mr. Muñoz has been the Hamilton alternate dating back to the musical's early development and debut at The Public Theatre in January 2015, as well as throughout the Broadway engagement. He previously took over the role of Usnavi - again, replacing Mr. Miranda - in the latter's Tony-winning Best Musical IN THE HEIGHTS.
He will perform the role of Alexander Hamilton seven performances a week. Mr. Muñoz's alternate, who will perform the role once a week as Mr. Muñoz has done, will be announced at a later date along with the alternate's performance schedule.
Mr. Muñoz's other stage credits include the title role of VENICE in the musical at Center Theatre Group, TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, a rock opera, at Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, and RICHARD III and INTO THE WOODS at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Javier is a native of Brooklyn, NY. He is represented by Kazarian, Measures, Ruskin and Associates and Soffer/Namoff Entertainment.
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.
