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The musical by Tony and Grammy Award winner Lin-Manuel
Miranda, the composer and star of the hit Broadway musical "In
the Heights," begins previews on July 13 and will open on Aug. 6
at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
Miranda plays Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant orphan who went
on to become a chief adviser for George Washington, the first
U.S. secretary of the Treasury and was fatally shot in a duel
with Aaron Burr.
"Lin-Manuel Miranda's retelling of our nation's founding tells
the story of a country that truly belongs to all of us," Oskar
Eustis, the Public Theater's artistic director, said in a
statement.
Since it began previews on Jan. 20 at the Public Theater the
musical, inspired by the book "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron
Chernow, has earned glowing reviews. Trade magazine Variety
called it a "brilliantly inventive bio-musical."
"In telling the story of Hamilton, and confreres that include
George Washington, Aaron Burr and Thomas Jefferson, via rap and
R&B ballads this sung-through production sounds a lot like what
you’d hear if you turned the radio to a mainstream pop station,"
said the New York Times.
The show's success and positive reviews sparked debate and
discussions about whether it would move to Broadway in the
spring to meet the deadline to quality for the Tony Awards, New
York theater's top accolades, in June.
Tuesday's announcement that it will be pushed back to August
could make it a major contender for the 2016 Tonys.
(Reporting by Patricia Reaney; Editing by Piya Sinha-Roy and
Lisa Shumaker)
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