VIDEO: HAMILTON's Phillipa Soo Talks Tony Nom & More: 'It's Just Been Amazing'
By: Caryn Robbins May. 16, 2016
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Phillipa Soo has received a 2016 Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a musical for her role as Eliza Hamilton in the hit hip-hop Broadway musical Hamilton. The role marked her Broadway debut. The actress spoke to PEOPLE about what the experience has been like. "I feel like the past year there's been a list of life goals that have just kind of fallen one after the other. It's just so amazing!" Watch the video!
Soo's off-Broadway credits include Hamilton at the Public Theater (Drama Desk Award for Best Musical); Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Ars Nova, Kazino, world premiere). Regional credits include A Little Night Music (Berkshire Theatre Group), School for Wives (Two River Theater). Film/TV: "Dangerous Liasons" (pilot), "Smash" (NBC). Training: Juilliard Drama Division (Group 41).
HAMILTON opened on August 6, 2016 at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre. 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).
With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow's biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
HAMILTON is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation's first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway,HAMILTON is the story of America then, as told by America now.
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