More Hamilton for Off-Broadway! Lin-Manuel Miranda Musical Extends Run at Public Theater
The founding father’s going to stick around downtown just a little while longer! The Public Theater production of Hamilton, created by and starring Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, has extended its run for the third time. The production will now play through May 3; it had previously been set to close on April 5. The news comes hot off the heels of speculation that the tuner’s producers were aiming to end the off-Broadway run early in order to fast track it onto the Great White Way this spring. It is now likely that should the production transfer to Broadway, it would not be until the 2015-16 season.
Hamilton, with book, music, and lyrics by Miranda, is inspired by the book Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. The new musical follows the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America, from bastard orphan to Washington's right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country's first sex scandal to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton and lifelong Hamilton friend and foe, Aaron Burr, all make appearances in the tuner about America’s fiery past.
In addition to Miranda, the musical stars Christopher Jackson as George Washington, Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr and Brian d’Arcy James as King George, who will bow out on March 1 for Broadway’s Something Rotten. No official announcement has been made regarding d’Arcy James’ replacement.
The cast also includes Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton, Anthony Ramos as John Laurens/Phillip Hamilton, Daveed Diggs as Marquis De Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson and Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler, along with Carleigh Bettiol, Ariana DeBose, Sydney James Harcourt, Sasha Hutchings, Thayne Jasperson, Stephanie Klemons, Jon Rua, Seth Stewart, Betsy Struxness, Ephraim Sykes, Andrew Chappelle, Alysha Deslorieux, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Javier Muñoz, Okieriete Onaodowan and Voltaire Wade-Greene.
