BWW Flashback: They're Non-Stop! Follow HAMILTON's Road to Broadway
By: Nicole Rosky Jul. 14, 2015
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Alexander Hamilton, "the ten-dollar Founding Father without a father," comes to Broadway in the new musical HAMILTON, which just began previews last night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 W. 46 St.). To celebrate the start of performances, we are flashing back to the show's road to the stage!
HAMILTON is inspired by the book AlexanderHamilton by Ron Chernow and features book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and direction by Thomas Kail, who previously collaborated on IN THE HEIGHTS.
From the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning In The Heights comes a wildly inventive new musical about the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America: Alexander Hamilton. Tony and Grammy Award winnerLin-Manuel Miranda wields his pen and takes the stage as the unlikely founding father determined to make his mark on a new nation as hungry and ambitious as he is. From bastard orphan to Washington's right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country's first sex scandal to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, Hamilton is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelong Hamilton friend and foe, Aaron Burr, all attend this revolutionary tale of America's fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we've become. Tony Award nomineeThomas Kail directs this new musical about taking your shot, speaking your mind, and turning the world upside down.
Miranda started working on the new musical years ago, and performed at sneak peek at the White House Poetry Jam in 2009:
Rehearsals began for the Off Broadway run in 2014:
Phillipa Soo and Jon Rua
Director Thomas Kail, orchestrator and Music Director Alex Lacamoire, choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, associate choreographer Stephanie Klemons, and Leslie Odom Jr.
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail
Brian d'Arcy James and Thomas Kail
Leslie Odom Jr.
Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Okieriete Onaodowan, and Daveed Diggs
Lin-Manuel Miranda and company
Lin-Manuel Miranda and company
Previews began at the Public Theater or January 20, 2015:
Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos, and Lin-Manuel Miranda
Phillipa Soo and Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda and company
Lin-Manuel Miranda and company
Daveed Diggs, Anthony Ramos, Carleigh Bettiol, and Thayne Jasperson
Lin-Manuel Miranda and company
Carleigh Bettiol, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., and Anthony Ramos
Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Jasmine Cephas Jones
Daveed Diggs and Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda (foreground) and Phillipa Soo
Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos, and Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, and company members
Renee Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, and company members
Brian d'Arcy James and the company of Hamilton
Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and Renee Elise Goldsberry
It opened on February 17, 2015:
The cast of HAMILTON
The cast of HAMILTON
The cast of HAMILTON
The cast of HAMILTON
Leslie Odom, Jr., Phillipa Soo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christopher Jackson
Andy Blankenbuehler, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Alex Lacamoire
Andy Blankenbuehler, Ron Chernow, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Oskar Eustis, Thomas Kail, Alex Lacamoire
Leslie Odom, Jr.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr.
Jon Rua, Javier Munoz, Thayne Jasperson, Ephraim Sykes, Seth Stewart
Daveed Diggs, Anthony Ramos, Okierete Onaodowan
Renee Elise Goldsberry, Ariana DeBose, Betsy Struxness, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Phillipa Soo, Alysha Deslorieux, Carleigh Bettiol, Sasha Hutchings, Stephanie Klemons
Voltaire Wade-Greene, Sydney James Harcourt, Andrew Chappelle
Renee Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas Jones
Jasmine Cephas Jones
On February 24, it was announced that the show would transfer to Broadway this summer:
Rehearsals for Broadway began in mid-June:
The Hamilton creative team: Andy Blankenbuehler (choreography), Lin-Manuel Miranda (book, music, and lyrics), Alex Lacamoire (musical supervision and orchestrations), and Thomas Kail (director)
"Hamilton" cast members, Leslie Odom Jr., Javier Munoz, Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs and Christopher Jackson
Principal cast members: Jasmine Cephas Jones, Leslie Odom Jr., Anthony Ramos, Javier Munoz, Okieriete Onaodowan, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Daveed Diggs, and Christopher Jackson
The Hamilton creative team: Andy Blankenbuehler (choreography), Lin-Manuel Miranda (book, music, and lyrics), Alex Lacamoire (musical supervision and orchestrations), and Thomas Kail (director)
Jasmine Cephas Jones, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo
Jasmine Cephas Jones, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo
Hamilton producers Sander Jacobs, Jeffrey Seller, Jill Furman, and Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis
Hamilton producers Sander Jacobs, Jeffrey Seller, Jill Furman, and Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis
David Korins, Nevin Steinberg and Paul Tazewell
Ensemble cast members
Ensemble and principal cast members
Ensemble and principal cast members
The Hamilton creative team: Andy Blankenbuehler (choreography), Lin-Manuel Miranda (book, music, and lyrics), Alex Lacamoire (musical supervision and orchestrations), and Thomas Kail (director)
Previews began just last night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where it will open on August 6:
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