HAMILTON Star & Tony Nominee Daveed Diggs to Visit 'Tonight Show'

NBC has announced that Hamilton star and recent Tony Award nominee Daveed Diggs will visit THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON on Monday, May 9th. Other guests scheduled to appear include Jodie Foster and musical guest Graham Nash. Be sure to set your DVR's. BWW will bring you video of the appearance as soon as it becomes available.

On Friday, May 6, Tony nominee Andrew Rannells will stop by the show. The 'Book of Mormon' star briefly replaced Jonathan Groff in the role of HAMILTON's King George III from Oct. 27 through Nov. 29 2015.

Diggs, who portrays the dual role of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the record-breaking Broadway musical, was nominated for a Tony Award yesterday for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical.

The new musical Hamilton has book, music and lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award-winning composerLin-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), Rory O'Malley(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.