Hello, King George! Cameron Mackintosh to Bring HAMILTON Across the Pond in 2017?

King George III was sort of right! It looks like the Founding Fathers are likely to travel back across the pond in Lin-Manuel Miranda's new musical HAMILTON.

According to the Evening Standard, Sir Cameron Mackintosh has plans to bring the current Broadway box-office blockbuster to the West End in 2017.

"I think there's every intention for it to come to London," Mackintosh told the publication. Among Mackintosh's producing credits are OLIVER!, LES MISERABLES, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MARY POPPINS, MISS SAIGON and CATS.

In a similar vein, The Public Theater's Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, who helped launch the musical off-Broadway, commented, "I promise we will bring Hamilton to London."

Miranda told the paper, "We're hoping it will happen sooner rather than later. My wife is always trying to get me to other countries so I would be honored to open the show in London."

Miranda's IN THE HEIGHTS recently made its UK debut at Southwark Playhouse and will move to London this autumn at King's Cross Theatre.

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 byAndy Blankenbuehler and music direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire. Hamilton is inspired by Ron Chernow's biography "Alexander Hamilton."

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 Burrin their legendary duel.

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