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The talented HAMILTON ensemble member recently gave a world premiere performance of a lost Kleban/Hamlisch song.

Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr. just participated in a Facebook Live chat, in which he first sent his best wishes to fathers everywhere, including Lin-Manuel, his own father as well as his mentors. Then, he announced to his fans that he will depart the hit musical on July 9, 2016 (along with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Phillipa Soo). 

Welcome back to Washington Heights! At yesterday's performance of HAMILTON, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson were visited backstage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre by former IN THE HEIGHTS co-stars Mandy Gonzalez and Priscilla Lopez. Miranda posted a photo of their visit on Twitter, along with the caption 'The Rosarios came back home.' - check it out below!

The national tour of the Broadway musical HAMILTON will play the Buell Theatre as part of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts' 2017/18 Broadway subscription series, it was announced today by producer Jeffrey Seller and the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. 

A new version of HAMILTON will soon bow in New York City.

In response to this weekend's tragic events in Orlando Lin-Manuel Miranda has established an officially-licensed merchandise site, Tee-Rico.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Javier Muñoz - Lin-Manuel Miranda's alternate in the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton on Broadway and the actor who portrayed AlexanderHamilton when President Barack Obama saw Hamilton last July - will step into the title role starting July 11 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 W. 46 St.), it has been announced byHamilton producer Jeffrey Seller. Mr. Miranda's final performance in the Broadway production is set for July 9.

The original cast will be filmed later this month, although Miranda says he doesn't know what will be done with it.

This could be your shot! Lin-Manuel Miranda recently announced that July 9th will be his last performance of Hamilton on Broadway. While ticket prices for this performance will surely be through the roof, Prizeo is hosting a sweepstakes that will give one lucky winner the chance to be hooked up with two of the best seats in the house and be a VIP guest of Lin's at an after party for his LAST SHOW for just a $10 donation to charity.

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, HAMILTON leading man Lin-Manuel Miranda will be exiting the show on July 9 to focus on his upcoming projects, including the starring role in Disney's MARY POPPINS opposite Emily Blunt. In a Heatstreet report last month, it was speculated that he will be replaced by his current alternate, Javier Muñoz, who steps in for Miranda on Sunday matinees. It appears that the rumors are true, because now they've been confirmed by Miranda himself. He told Washington Post reviewer Peter Marks:

Toronto's Wexford Collegiate Institute School for the Arts is serious about obtaining the performance rights for HAMILTON now.

While the Tony Awards dedicated Sunday night's broadcast to the victim's of the Orlando shooting, others have been sending support and voicing concern and outrage over the horrible incident. At today's performance of #Ham4Ham, which drew record-breaking crowds, Lin-Manuel Miranda welcomed Andrea Burns to honor the victims with a rendition of 'What I Did For Love.' You can watch her touching performance below.

Today's #Ham4Ham live lottery is the first since the musical's 11 Tony wins.

Charitybuzz's new auction offers a chance to meet one of HAMILTON's Tony-winning breakout stars.

Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr. stopped by last night's WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE on Bravo and explained how he feels about the steep ticket prices for HAMILTON.

The show's original cast recording is now number 1 on both iTunes and Amazon.com and is setting the record for best selling ever Broadway show CD and download.

Wesleyan announced the establishment of the Wesleyan University HAMILTON Prize for Creativity, a four-year full tuition scholarship that honors Lin-Manuel Miranda '02, Hon. '15 and Thomas Kail '99, who created and directed the hit Broadway musical for which the prize is named.

On last night's MAYA AND MARTY on NBC, Maya Rudolph joined SCHOOL OF ROCK's Luca Padovan, A BRONX TALE's Joshua Colley and KINKY BOOTS' Douglas Baldeo in a tribute to the 11-time Tony winning musical HAMILTON!

The Tony-winning HAMILTON author/star regularly uses Twitter to establish a personal relationship with his fans.