The playwright/actor and his co-stars Leslie Odom, Jr. and Phillipa Soo made their final performances in Miranda’s critically-acclaimed hip-hop musical, based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S.
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The president met with his British, French, German, Italian, and Ukrainian counterparts that evening while Secretary Kerry flew from Warsaw to NY to see creator and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda’s final performance of his musical.
The final curtain call was livestreamed on Facebook.
He was in good company: Among the late-arriving audience members were music star Jennifer Lopez and her two young twins, along with newsman Charlie Rose and Secretary of State John Kerry.
“Teach ’em how to say goodbye”, Miranda wrote on Twitter beside a photo of his hair’s remains. Meanwhile, Miranda chopped off his role-required locks and debuted his clean look at the show’s after-party.
The composer and star’s longtime onstage alternate Munoz will take over the titular role next week, alongside Lexi Lawson as Eliza Schuyler Hamilton.
A huge mob appeared before the Richard Rodgers Theater on July 9 in New York City, just 90 minutes before showtime, to watch the final performance of the Broadway smash, Hamilton, with its original cast. “I intend to drop-in on this, over and over again”, Miranda said. The cast also said goodbye to Tony victor Leslie Odom Jr, who plays Hamilton’s rival Aaron Burr, and Phillipa Soo, who plays Hamilton’s wife, Eliza.
Miranda’s next move will be preparing for his film role in the sequel to Mary Poppins; he’ll play a lamplighter named Jack.
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This year, it has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, a Grammy, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History and Miranda earned a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. “Hamilton” comes to Chicago in September.
