On Friday's LIVE WITH KELLY AND MICHAEL, host Kelly Ripa explained how she is convinced her son Joaquin knows so much history because of the smash hit musical Hamilton and wants Broadway to come up with 'Algebra the Musical', possibly starring Beyonce in the lead role:
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."
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.