The award-winning Broadway hip-hop musical Hamilton is to bid farewell to three of its stars, including creator and lead actor Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Actor Lin-Manuel Miranda greets spectators after taking part in his last performance with Hamilton in New York July 9, 2016.
Leslie Odom Jr., who plays Aaron Burr, and Phillipa Soo, who plays Eliza Schuyler, also marked their final “Hamilton” show. Next up for Manuel? Miranda will next star opposite Emily Blunt in Disney’s sequel to “Mary Poppins” and he wrote music for the upcoming “Moana”, an animated film with a Polynesian princess at its heart.
Just in, BroadwayWorld.com has learned that the musical will broadcast the trio’s final curtain call tonight on the show’s Facebook page, at approximately 10:45pm PM.
The show won 11 awards at this year’s Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy, and it’s influenced pop culture from clothing lines to politics.
Stacie Berman, a Brooklynite who has seen the show twice, said she planned to sell four tickets to the show she had bought for September to help pay for her $2,000 ticket to Mr. Miranda’s final night. Hamilton will debut in Chicago in an open-ended production in September, with other productions opening in San Francisco and London within the next year.
The play saw the loss of its original cast member Jonathan Groff, but the cast is comprised of Tony Award winners Renee Elise Goldsberry, Daveed Diggs, and Tony-nominee Christopher Jackson, which is a proof of the play’s integrity against cast changes.
Meanwhile, Miranda kept his farewell tweets simple, posting just before the show started, “Okay”.
Miranda was later seen waving to fans on the balcony outside the theater – as he said “thank you” to the crowds that gathered below him.
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He recently collaborated on a charity track with Jennifer Lopez, while production bosses at The Weinstein Co. also picked up the movie rights for his previous Broadway success In The Heights, which featured a semi-autobiographical story penned by Miranda himself.
