Shows · Hamilton
Hamilton
Opened 2015
3,500 performances
Musical, Contemporary
Tony Award for Best Musical, 2016
Immigrant orphan Alexander Hamilton arrives in New York City during the American Revolution and rises from poverty to become George Washington's right-hand man, the nation's first Treasury Secretary, and a towering political figure. His relentless ambition fuels both his extraordinary achievements and his spectacular downfall, as political rivalries, a devastating affair, and his inability to stay silent lead to his fatal duel with Aaron Burr.
- Music
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Lyrics
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Book
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
Productions2 productions: 1 on Broadway, 1 in the West End
Songs6 songs
My Shot, Alexander Hamilton, Wait for It, The Room Where It Happens, Satisfied, Non-Stop
Recordings 11 recordings
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
Hamilton: An American Musical, known colloquially as Hamilton, is a sung-and-rapped-through biographical musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Based on the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, the musical covers the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and his involvement in the American Revolution and the political history of the early United States. Composed from 2008 to 2015, the music draws heavily from hip hop, as well as R&B, pop, soul, and traditional-style show tunes. It casts non-white actors as the Founding Fathers of the United States and other historical figures. Miranda described Hamilton as about "America then, as told by Amer…
'The room where it happened,' he snarls. Beneath the red, white, and blue bunting is a green-eyed monster.
The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 11In 2016, Hamilton set the melody of its opening number to rap lyrics about Sweeney Todd, played by Lin-Manuel Miranda himself. The show’s bonnet was a Revolutionary War tricolor bisected by a generous triangular slice of brown pie (which presumably did not come from a little priest).
The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 137Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.