Producer Jeffrey Seller Confirms HAMILTON Plans For London, Europe, Australia

A New York Times Magazine profile of HAMILTON producer Jeffrey Seller confirms previously announced plans for the first American touring companies and a West End production, and also announces plans for additional international companies of Lin-Manuel Miranda's revolutionary hip-hop musical.

As previously announced, the first production of HAMILTON outside of New York will begin performances on September 27th, 2016 at Chicago's PrivateBank Theatre. It will be a "sit-down" show, meaning it is expected to run for a year or more.

Ultimately, there may be as many as seven HAMILTON companies, in addition to the one on Broadway, performing at the same time in multiple American and international cities.

As previously reported by BroadwayWorld, Seller is working with producer Cameron Mackintosh on a 2017 West End opening. This will be followed by companies in Continental Europe and Australia.

Seller stresses that since HAMILTON requires no special effects or an elaborate set, casting is everything. Each road company will be cast with the same diversity displayed in the current Broadway company, with all roles, excepting King George, going to actors of color.

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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 byAlex 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.