Hamilton at Richard Rodgers Theatre

This summer, Hamilton will be playing in Richard Rodgers Theatre, the highly praised venue of New York and the greatest possible entertainment venue for this world-wide phenomenon performance. The critically acclaimed and multi-award winning Musical goes on to tell its second to none story from theatre to theatre all over the globe.

Debuting off Broadway in 2015, The production was not instantly the Broadway success that it is now. Lin-Manuel Miranda has talked honestly about its beginnings, starting as a concept album in 2009, with Miranda sharing that he was “thrilled that the White House called me tonight, because I’m actually working on a hip-hop album. It's a concept album about the life of someone I think embodies hip-hop: treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton.” That one single performance elicited praise and a well-deserved standing ovation from the audience at the time, as well as former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and ultimately led to Miranda’s creation of the Hamilton musical we know now.

With his background in musical theater, Lin-Manuel Miranda has also taken inspiration from other great theater pieces such as Les Misérables, which follows a similar theme that tells the story of a struggle, and succeeding from that struggle, as opposed to the usual musical theatre biases that follow the trend of being very uplifting and happy. Hamilton is no different, being about the difficulties arising as an orphaned immigrant from the Caribbean who climbed the ladder and became the first American Treasury Secretary. With the utmost respect to its source material, Hamilton shows us both the good and bad in Alexander Hamilton’s rise to power, by not only giving us a peek into his personal life and struggle, but also his impact and effect in being able to powerfully shape America over that time.

By telling this story, Hamilton continues to display its importance in popular culture and even on the international stage, confronting themes and issues that are deeply relevant not only to America, but also to the world. Even the use of musical genres like hip hop, jazz, and R&B as the productions score has cemented its place in modern culture, making it one of the most relevant hit New York musicals today.