CBS has announced that tonight, Dec. 11, Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda will visit the LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT. Other guests scheduled for the broadcast are actor Ike Barinholtz and a musical performance by Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings. Be sure to set your DVRs. BWW will bring you video of the appearance as soon as they become available.
The new musical
Hamilton has book, music and lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who also plays the title role. The musical is directed by
Thomas Kail, with choreography by
Andy Blankenbuehler and music direction and orchestrations by
Alex Lacamoire.
Hamilton is inspired by
Ron Chernow's biography "Alexander
Hamilton."
$10 front row seats for
Hamilton - the new musical about the $10 Founding Father, AlexanderHamiltonare on sale for each show by lottery.
THE LOTTERY begins two and half hours prior to each performance when patrons may enter their name at the
Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 W. 46 St.) for a chance to buy up to two front row tickets for $10 each -Hamilton for "Hamilton." The winner's names will be drawn 2 hours before show time. Entrants must present photo ID, and the winners must pay with cash at the box office.
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),
Jonathan Groff (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 Alexander
Hamilton, 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.
Photo:
Joan Marcus