Jonathan Groff Returns to Reign Over Broadway in Hamilton

You'll be back, indeed! Jonathan Groff will return to megahit Hamilton on December 1. Andrew Rannells had temporarily assumed the role of King George while Groff completed work on the final installment of Looking. As if you didn't know already, Hamilton is playing at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.

Groff won three Broadway.com Audience Choice Awards and was nominated for a Tony Award for playing Melchoir in Spring Awakening. Other stage credits include Hair, The Bacchae, The Submission, The Singing Forest, Prayer for My Enemy, A New Brain, Deathtrap and Red.

Directed by Thomas Kail and featuring a book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton 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.

Starring Miranda in the title role, the cast also currently includes Christopher Jackson as George Washington, Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr, Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton, Anthony Ramos as John Laurens/Phillip Hamilton, Daveed Diggs as Marquis De Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler and Javier Muñoz as Hamilton alternate.