Hamilton at Richard Rodgers Theatre

This fall, Hamilton will be playing in Richard Rodgers Theatre, the highly praised theatre of New York and the greatest possible theatre for the global phenomenon performance. The acclaimed and multi-award winning performance continues to tell its outstanding story from place to place all over the Nation.

Debuting off Broadway in 2015, The show was not the instant Broadway hit that you will see today. 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 singular 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 see today.

With his background in musical theater, Lin-Manuel Miranda has also gained influences from other award-winning theater pieces such as Les Misérables, which is based on a common theme that tells the history of a struggle, and triumphing that struggle, instead of the typical musical theatre biases that tend to be very uplifting and happy. Hamilton is no different, being about the difficulties arising as an orphaned immigrant from the Caribbean who rose to power and became the first U.S. Treasury Secretary. With the utmost respect to its source material, the Musical shows us both the good and bad in Alexander Hamilton’s rise to power, by not only showing us a look into his personal life and struggle, but also his influence and lasting legacy in being able to greatly shape America over that time.

By telling this story, the production continues to prove its importance in popular culture and even international public discourse, confronting questions and issues that are deeply relevant not only to America, but also around the world. Even the use of musical genres like hip hop, jazz, and R&B as the main score has cemented its place in pop culture, making it one of the most popular hit New York musicals today.