VIDEO: 'Today' Shares First Look at Taran Killam as HAMILTON's King George
By: Caryn Robbins Jan. 19, 2017
This week, SNL alum Taran Killam took over the role of King George III in the hit Broadway musical Hamilton-331238.html">Hamilton. On this morning's TODAY, Al Roker visited Killam as he demonstrated his British accent and prepared for his first performance in front of a sold-out crowd. "It's overwhelming. It's such a significant show," Killam told Roker. Watch the video!
Taran Killam is currently making his Broadway debut as King George III in the hit Broadway musial Hamilton-331238.html">Hamilton. Last summer he co-starred in Encores Off Center production of Little Shop of Horrors (Orin Scrivello) with Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhaal. Killam was a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" for six years and has been seen in the films The Heat, Brother Nature and 12 Years a Slave. He recently wrapped his feature directorial debut Why We're Killing Gunther, an action comedy that Killam wrote and also stars in with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, music direction/orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton-331238.html">Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow's biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton-331238.html">Hamilton. The musical won eleven 2016 TONY AWARDS including Best Musical, Score, Book of a Musical, Direction of a Musical, Choreography and Orchestrations. Mr. Miranda received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Hamilton-331238.html">Hamilton.
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