Episode 12
Hamilton (musical)
Mon, 2017-May-15 01:28 UTC
Length - 2:46
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Hamilton: An American Musical is a sung-through musical about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, with music, lyrics and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The show, inspired by the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by historian Ron Chernow, achieved both critical acclaim and box office success.
The musical made its Off-Broadway debut at The Public Theater in February 2015, where its engagement was sold out. The show transferred to Broadway in August 2015 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. On Broadway, it received enthusiastic critical reception and unprecedented advance box office sales. In 2016, Hamilton received a record-setting 16 Tony nominations, winning 11, including Best Musical, and was also the recipient of the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The prior off-Broadway production of Hamilton won the 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical as well as seven other Drama Desk Awards out of 14 total nominated categories.
The Chicago production of Hamilton opened at the PrivateBank Theatre in September 2016. The first U.S. national tour of the show began performances in March 2017. A production of Hamilton will open in the West End in November 2017 at the Victoria Palace Theatre. A second U.S. tour is also set to begin performances in early 2018.
On February 14, 2017, Miranda confirmed that a film adaptation based on the musical is in the works.
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