tour began January 11, 2019, with a three-week engagement in Puerto Rico in which Miranda returned to the role of Hamilton. The West End production opened at the Victoria Palace Theatre in London on December 21, 2017, following previews from December 6 and winning seven Olivier Awards in 2018, including Best New Musical. The Chicago production of Hamilton began preview performances at the CIBC Theatre in September 2017 and opened the following month. A filmed version of the Broadway production was released in 2020 on Disney+. It received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. At the 70th Tony Awards, Hamilton received a record-breaking 16 nominations and won 11 awards, including Best Musical. It then transferred to the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway, opening on August 6, 2015, where it received uniformly positive reviews and high box office sales. The musical won eight Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Musical. It premiered Off-Broadway on February 17, 2015, at the Public Theater in Lower Manhattan, with Miranda playing the role of Alexander Hamilton, where its several-month engagement was sold out. Miranda described Hamilton as about "America then, as told by America now." įrom its opening, Hamilton received near-universal acclaim. It casts non-white actors as the Founding Fathers of the United States and other historical figures. Composed over a seven-year period from 2008 to 2015, the music draws heavily from hip hop, as well as R&B, pop, soul, and traditional-style show tunes. Based on the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, the musical covers the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and his involvement in the American Revolution and the political history of the early United States. Hamilton is a sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. L–R: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr., and Christopher Jackson Obie Award for Best New American Theatre WorkĬast members perform selections from the musical at the White House, 2016.Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music.Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical.Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album.Hamilton succeeds with its drama but leaves out plenty about Alexander's family life. Little Phil passed away 16 years later at age 82. His oldest son, Louis, served under George Custer and died during the Battle of Washita River in 1868. Despite not attending college, "Little Phil" became a lawyer and served as an assistant U.S. Attorney to his brother James. The eighth Hamilton child, Philip, was born in 1802 and received the name of his deceased older brother. After her husband's death in 1842, Eliza Hamilton moved in with her mother in Manhattan and enjoyed the socialite life. The seventh Hamilton child, Eliza, was born in 1799 and married a prominent businessman named Sidney Augustus Holly in 1825. In 1950, William died at age 54 in California, just two years after leaving home because of the Gold Rush. Around the same time, he established a mining company called Hamilton's Diggings in Wiota, Wisconsin. He also served during the Winnebago War of 1827 and the Black Hawk War of 1832. Hamilton was born in 1797 and became a politician in both Illinois and Wisconsin. John had 14 children and died in 1882 at age 89. He served in the War of 1812, and later wrote biographies about his father while working as a historian. The fourth Hamilton child, John, was born in 1792 and followed in the footsteps of Alexander Jr. In honor of Alexander's West Indies heritage, James built a home in Irvington, New York and named it after the birthplace of his father, Nevis. He also became a lawyer and later served as the Secretary of State for U.S. James Alexander Hamilton, the fourth child, was born in 1788 and lived to be 90 years old.
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