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Today's special guest was none other than kid critic Iain Armitage of 'Iain Loves Theatre' fame. Below, watch as he raps both Hamilton and Jefferson's parts from 'Cabinet Battle #1' with Miranda, Daveed Diggs, and Christopher Jackson! Too adorable to miss!
The website aims to fully annotate the entire score of HAMILTON with its historic and musical references.
It's been just over two months since President Obama stopped by the Richard Rodgers Theatre to catch a preview performance of Broadway's hottest show, and according to the New York Times, he'll be heading back to Hamilton soon.
Tonight, October 2, Wesleyan University will host a sold-out benefit performance of the much celebrated musical HAMILTON at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
Photographer Josh Lehrer uses a camera lens from 1839 to give a portrait of the HAMILTON star a vintage look.
Fresh off of being officially declared a genius by The MacArthur Foundation, Lin-Manuel Miranda took to Twitter this afternoon to announce his newest project, THE HAMILTON MIXTAPE.
HAMILTON creator Lin-Manuel Miranda has a dream that one day we'll be listening to showtunes on the radio again. He explained in a recent interview with Rolling Stone: 'You used to hear a Cole Porter song on the radio and then you'd go pay for a ticket to a Broadway show to hear that song in a show. If any cast album could afford to push the limit of that, it's this one.'
Broadway fans celebrated the 29th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction by bidding on and buying everything from tickets to a bevy of opening night performances to custom-made music mixes, from autographed musical phrases to once-in-a-lifetime theatrical experiences. The result: a record $756,655 was raised for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
BC/EFA's 2015 Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction was held just yesterday, September 27, with more than 60 tables full of Broadway memorabilia, collectible Playbills and one-of-a-kind gems from us here at BroadwayWorld and all your favorite shows. Below, BroadwayWorld is happy to take you inside the special day with photo coverage from backstage, the autograph tables and more!
As a show intrinsically about politics, HAMILTON is a fitting Broadway show for America's presidential campaign season which is consuming our country.
Today's #Ham4Ham performance reportedly blocked the entire street in front of the Richard Rodgers Theatre due to the multitude of spectators, according to Twitter reports. The performers at the special event this afternoon were HAMILTON's Ariana DeBose with special guest Ryann Redmond (BRING IT ON).
History and musical theatre buffs, rejoice! In honor of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit new show HAMTILON, Curbed has put together a list of Alexander Hamilton's New York City stomping grounds.
On Sunday, September 20th, HAMILTON star Leslie Odom Jr. sang the National Anthem to a sold-out crowd at the New York Yankees vs. New York Mets game at Citifield in Flushing, NY.
Hamilton star Phillipa Soo, alongisde Broadway veteran Steven Pasquale, recently took a trip to Graham Windham. The trip brightened the days of numerous children and was actually inspired by Phillipa Soo's character in Hamilton, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton.
The first of this week's #Ham4Ham lottery shows gave the cast some 'Magic To Do' as they performed the iconic number from Broadway's PIPPIN. Check it out below!
On October 2, Wesleyan University will host a sold-out benefit performance of the much celebrated musical Hamilton at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Alumni Lin-Manuel Miranda '02, Hamilton star and creator of the book, music, and lyrics, and director Thomas Kail '99, are giving back to the university that helped launch their theater careers. The two previously collaborated on the hit musical In the Heights, of which Miranda wrote early versions while a student at Wesleyan.
The Jewish Channel will launch its second season of its popular theater-oriented monthly TV show, ROW J, beginning on Monday, September 21. ROW J is hosted by TJC correspondent Meredith Ganzman. The executive producer is Brian Scott Lipton.
HAMILTON is the biggest hit that Broadway has seen in a while, and in a recent Deadline article, Jeremy Gerard investigates the money that got the show on its feet at the Public Theater, and the money that the production has brought in since Broadway performances began. Gerard writes:
The rumors were true! As previously reported, Sir Cameron Mackintosh (producer of OLIVER!, LES MISERABLES, PHANTOM, MARY POPPINS, MISS SAIGON and CATS) plans to bring Broadway's box-office blockbuster HAMILTON to the West End in 2017. The Daily Mail now writes that Mackintosh is touring West End venues with producers Jeffrey Seller and Oskar Eustis next month, including WAR HORSE's current home at the New London through March 12, 2016.
Today's #Ham4Ham lottery featured HAMILTON's Okieriete Onaodowan reinterpreting Maureen's 'Over The Moon' from RENT, with Renee Elise Goldsberry and Lin-Manuel Miranda on backup and cow bell. Check it out below!
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