West End Live 2022 – Performance videos now online
The performance schedule for West End Live 2022 is announced. The two-day event on 25 & 26 June showcases West End theatre productions
Hamilton the musical has a book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and is based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton whose face features on the American ten-dollar bill.
Hamilton fast became a cultural phenomenon, in part due to casting of a mix of actors of colour in the roles that might have traditionally been played by caucasian actors. It has been described by Lin-Manuel as “American then, as told by America now!”
Hamilton the musical started life as the Hamilton Mix Tape which was supposed to be a concept album of a life told in hip hop but this quickly developed into a stage musical after the video of Miranda performing the title track at the White House for the Obamas went viral.
Hamilton premiered off-Broadway at New York’s Public Theatre. After a sold-out critically acclaimed season, the show transferred to Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre where it is still playing to sell-out houses.
Hamilton won eight Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Musical, Eleven 2016 Tony Awards and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize For Drama.
On its opening in London at the Victoria Palace Theatre, Hamilton the musical won the Olivier Award for Best Musical and the Best Actor Olivier for Giles Terrera who plays the show’s protagonist Aaron Burr. As this is written, Hamilton has become one of the only musical running during the pandemic with the opening of a production in Australia.
Hamilton was filmed on stage with the original Broadway cast and was streamed on Disney+
The performance schedule for West End Live 2022 is announced. The two-day event on 25 & 26 June showcases West End theatre productions
The West End production of Hamilton has extended at the Victoria Palace Theatre until 10 July 2022. Book Hamilton West End tickets now!
Giles Terera is to return to the West End production of Hamilton for six week only revisiting his Olivier Award-winning performance as Aaron Burr.
Full West End casting has been announced for Hamilton London as it returns to the Victoria Palace Theatre in August 2021.
This week in our Throwback Thursday series we speak to Tarinn Callender – original cast member of Hamilton London.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster musical Hamilton is being released over a year early thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic and here’s what you need to know.
Producer Cameron Mackintosh today announced that Les Miserables, Mary Poppins, The Phantom and Hamilton will not return to the West End until 2021.
Disney+ are to release the film of the original Hamilton Broadway cast a year early starting on 3 July 2020.
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