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Current Vice President-elect, Michael Pence, paid a visit to Broadway's revolutionary mega-hit, 'Hamilton' this evening and reports from inside the theater confirm a less than enthusiastic reception for the former governor of Indiana.

Earlier today, #FindYourPark enthusiast Mikah Meyer met with Hamilton's newest George Washington Nicholas Christopher (Miss Saigon, Lazarus, Motown) for a private tour of Hamilton Grange National Memorial. During the afternoon, Mikah and Nicholas learned about the role of Hamilton Grange in the National Park Service - and some interesting tidbits about George Washington's connection to Alexander Hamilton's NYC homestead. Mikah is on his way to breaking two world records - becoming the youngest person to visit all 400+ National Park Service sites, and the only person to do it in one continuous trip. 

You need to wait for it no longer! Lin-Manuel Miranda announced this morning via Twitter that 'Wait for It' and 'Wrote My Way Out,' two tracks from the Hamilton Mixtape, will be released on iTunes on Friday at midnight in every time zone, and Broadway World is bringing you all the songs as they drop. 

You need to wait for it no longer! Lin-Manuel Miranda announced this morning via Twitter that 'Wait for It' and 'Wrote My Way Out,' two tracks from the Hamilton Mixtape, will be released on iTunes on Friday at midnight in every time zone, and you can already check out the latter.

The holiday season is not complete without the perfect music to accompany it. 'Broadway's Carols for a Cure' is the latest compilation album that embodies the spirit of the season like nothing else can. A project born completely out of love, 'Broadway's Carols for a Cure' pairs the casts from famous Broadway musicals with songs that are both classic and new. The result is pure gold that will make you reach for the 'repeat' button over and over again.

Broadway has officially jumped on the mannequin challenge bandwagon! Below, watch as the cast of HAMILTON presents #Hammequin for today's digital #Ham4Ham.

Super Swing Andrew Chappelle is going on for King George III in Hamilton on Broadway for the first time for tonight's performance. After this, Chappelle will have gone on for almost every single track he covers-including Laurens/Phillip, Lafayette/Jefferson, and Mulligan/Madison. The only track left for the actor is that of Aaron Burr, the role that earned Leslie Odom Jr. a Tony Award this past year.

This afternoon, Hamilton's Christopher Jackson celebrated the latest in a long line of achievements: his own portrait at Sardi's! BroadwayWorld was in attendance and got some terrific shots of the Commander in Chief himself celebrating the occasion. Check out all the photos below!

To clear away your post-election blues, Lin-Manuel Miranda turned to Twitter yesterday to announce that a second installment of the Hamilton Mixtape is in the works! 

Need your daily dose of HAMILTON? Musical group SHANLEY recently took to YouTube to perform a beautiful mashup of Ingrid Michaelson's 'Hell No' and Hamilton's 'Say No To This.'

Following the November 3rd evening performance of the Chicago production of HAMILTON, the cast gathered on stage to celebrate the Cubs winning the World Series championship

#EduHam is a series of HAMILTON Wednesday matinees made available to New York City schools with a high concentration of students from low-income families for the ticket price of only $10. This educational partnership, made possible through a $1.46 million grant by The Rockefeller Foundation, is not only providing 20,000 NYC public school students with the opportunity to see HAMILTON on Broadway, but provides educational material by Gilder Lehrman to incorporate material from the musical into the American History curriculum. Check out photos from the latest #EduHam below!

Ari Afsar, who plays 'Eliza Hamilton' in the Chicago production of HAMILTON, recently stopped by the web series 'City of Michael' - check it out below! 

Good news for HAMILTON fans. Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda took to Twitter this morning to announce that the highly-anticipated HAMILTON Mixtape will be available for pre-order tomorrow.

Today OUT magazine unveiled their annual list celebrating the Top 100 most compelling people of the year with the special OUT100 double issue.

The Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA), the nation's longest running active arts advocacy organization for Latino actors, will honor performers Javier Muñoz (currently playing the title role of Alexander Hamilton in the runaway hit Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton), Modesto Lacen (of the hit telenovelas 'Celia' and 'La esclava blanca'); and ABC News Senior Legal Correspondent and Analyst Sunny Hostin (also an official contributor/guest co-host of ABC's 'The View') at the 2016 HOLA Awards, the Seventeenth Annual HOLA Awards Gala and Benefit.

The Actors Fund announced today an online lottery for 11 complimentary front row tickets to their Special Performance of the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit, Hamilton, which will take place on Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 7 pm at the Richard Rogers Theatre (226 W 46th Street).

On Monday, Theater People podcast welcome's HAMILTON'S Mandy Gonzalez. She made her Broadway debut in 2000 in AIDA as the Amnneris standby. She eventually took the role over full-time. She went on to originate roles in DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES and LENNON before winning her breakout role as Nina in Lin-Manuel Miranda's IN THE HEIGHTS, a role she originated in the show's pre-Off Broadway days. She went on to take over the role of Elphaba in WICKED and can now be seen eight times a week in the hottest show on Broadway, HAMILTON.

On today's digital #Ham4Ham, Hamilton's biographer himself, Ron Chernow, donned a revolutionary costume and performed a portion of the hit musical's opening number in tribute to HAMILTON creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Pulitzer Prize that he won for the production. Check out the cover below!

It was announced this week that the original Broadway cast recording of the mega -hit "Hamilton"  has reached multi-platinum status in the United States.