Tickets for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Final HAMILTON Performance Going for $12,000

As BWW reported last week, HAMILTON star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda will reportedly depart his hit show on July 9, 2016. (the date has yet to be confirmed by the production) According to USA Today, if you'd like to be in the room where it happens when the Tony nominated star says farewell to the hip hop musical, it's going to cost you!

While Miranda's replacement has not yet been officially announced, last month Heatstreet reported that it would be his current alternate, Javier Muñoz, who steps in for Miranda on Sunday matinees. Miranda is leaving the show to begin work on new projects, which include starring alongside Emily Blunt in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns.

Miranda's Broadway credits include: Composer/Lyricist/Usnavi of In the Heights(four Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Score, Grammy Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist), Bring It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist, Tony nomination for Best Musical), West Side Story(2009 revival, Spanish translations). Off-Broadway:Hamilton (ten Lortel Awards, three Outer Critic Circle Awards, eight Drama Desk Awards, the 2015 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Musical and the 2015 Obie Award for Best New American Play);Merrily We Roll Along and tick, tick...BOOM! (both City Center Encores!). WithTom Kitt, Lin-Manuel received an Emmy Award for "Bigger" from "The 67th Annual Tony Awards." TV/film: "Freestyle Love Supreme," "How I Met Your Mother," "Smash," "Do No Harm," "Modern Family," "House," "The Electric Company," "Sesame Street," "The Sopranos," The Odd Life of Timothy Green and200 Cartas.www.linmanuel.com.

The cast of Hamilton is comprised of Lin-Manuel Miranda (Alexander Hamilton), Daveed Diggs(Marquis De Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler),Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Rory O'Malley (King George), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler, Maria Reynolds), Javier Muñoz (Hamilton alternate), Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan, James Madison), Leslie Odom, Jr. (Aaron Burr), Anthony Ramos (John Laurens, PhilipHamilton) and Phillipa Soo (Eliza Hamilton).

HAMILTON is the acclaimed new musical about the scrappy young immigrant AlexanderHamilton, the $10 Founding Father who forever changed America with his revolutionary ideas and actions. During his life cut too short, he served as George Washington's chief aide, was the first Treasury Secretary, a loving husband and father, despised by his fellow Founding Fathers and shot to death by Aaron Burr in their legendary duel.

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