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Yahoo
3 days ago
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- Yahoo
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Original ‘Hamilton' Cast Performing at Tony Awards
History has its eye on you, Hamilton cast. To honor the Broadway show's 10th anniversary this year, the original cast of the Tony-winning production, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the book, music, lyrics and starred in the show, will reunite at the Tony Awards for a special anniversary performance on June 8. More from The Hollywood Reporter Sadie Sink on Her First Tony Nomination, Shaking Off 'Stranger Things' Expectations Darren Criss, Renée Elise Goldsberry Set to Host Tony Awards Preshow Broadway Sees Highest Grossing Season on Record Fellow castmembers participating in the performance include Jonathan Groff, Ariana DeBose, Carleigh Bettiol, Andrew Chappelle, Alysha Deslorieux, Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sydney James Harcourt, Neil Haskell, Sasha Hutchings, Christopher Jackson, Thayne Jasperson, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Stephanie Klemons, Morgan Marcell, Javier Muñoz, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Jon Rua, Austin Smith, Phillipa Soo, Seth Stewart, Betsy Struxness, Ephraim Sykes and Voltaire Wade-Greene. The show, which is about the rise and fall of founding father on the 10 dollar bill, Alexander Hamilton and has a hip-hop twist on the music, debuted on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 2015. It won 11 Tonys at the 2026 ceremony, including best musical. It went on to nab a Grammy, Olivier award, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, citation from the Kennedy Center Honors and the original Broadway cast recording became the first to be certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America. The show is currently still playing on Broadway. Before the Tony Awards begin airing, a pre-show will be hosted by first-time Tony nominee Darren Criss and Renée Elise Goldsberry, available to stream on Pluto TV at 6:40-8 p.m. ET/3:40-5 p.m. PT. Immediately after, the award show starts and is hosted by Tony winner and Wicked star Cynthia Erivo. The 78th annual Tony Awards will broadcast on CBS from 8-11 p.m. on June 8. See the full list of Tony nominations here. Best of The Hollywood Reporter From 'Lady in the Lake' to 'It Ends With Us': 29 New and Upcoming Book Adaptations in 2024 Meet the Superstars Who Glam Up Hollywood's A-List Rosie O'Donnell on Ellen, Madonna, Trump and 40 Years in the Queer Spotlight
CBS News
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- CBS News
"Hamilton" original cast to reunite for Tony Awards 2025 performance in June
How Jeffrey Seller became one of Broadway's biggest producers Members of the original cast of the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" will reunite for an anniversary performance at the Tony Awards on June 8. Stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr., Philippa Soo, Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson, Jasmine Cephas Jones and Okieriete Onaodowan will perform alongside other original ensemble cast members, CBS and Tony Award Productions announced in a news release Thursday. The announcement did not say what the cast would perform. The performance will celebrate the record-breaking musical's 10th anniversary. "Hamilton" opened on Broadway in 2015 and became an immediate sensation. It received a record-breaking 16 nominations at the 2016 Tony Awards and took home 11, including "Best Musical." It also received a Grammy Award, an Olivier Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. A filmed version of the musical featuring most of the original cast was released on Disney+ in 2020. Lin-Manuel Miranda with the cast and creative team during the Broadway opening night performance of 'Hamilton' at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on August 6, 2015 in New York City. Walter McBride/WireImage The performance is not the only celebration of the musical's milestone year. Odom Jr. is set to return to the Richard Rodgers Theatre to reprise his role as Aaron Burr from Sept. 9 to Nov. 23. Who else will perform at the Tony Awards? Other performances have not yet been announced. Typically, shows nominated for Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical perform. Musicals "Buena Vista Social Club," "Death Becomes Her" and "Maybe Happy Ending" were each nominated for 10 awards, including "Best Musical." Plays "John Proctor is the Villain" and "The Hills of California" each received seven nominations. The full list of Tony Award nominees is available here. How to watch the Tony Awards Broadway's biggest night, hosted by "Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo, will be held at New York City's Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 8, at 8 p.m. ET. The Oscar-nominated actress said she is proud to take on the "glorious honor." The Tony Awards will air on CBS and Paramount+. Before the awards are broadcast, nominee Darren Criss and Goldsberry will host "The Tony Awards: Act One," a live preshow that will be available to viewers for free on Pluto TV.
Forbes
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
‘Hamilton' Isn't Just A Success On Broadway — It's A Historic Win On The Charts
Hamilton celebrates 500 weeks on the Billboard 200 and the Cast Albums chart, marking a first on the ... More all-encompassing albums list for Broadway. NEW YORK, NY - JULY 09: (L-R) Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Ramos attend Lin-Manuel Miranda's final performance of "Hamilton" on Broadway at Richard Rodgers Theatre on July 9, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by) Hamilton became a phenomenon even before it reached Broadway. In just a few months, it will celebrate a full decade on the Great White Way — and amazingly, it still remains one of the most in-demand tickets, as well as one of the most successful shows ever. It's not just the production that continues to bring people in, either. Millions of fans still buy and stream the original cast recording every week. The album that accompanies the Broadway show reaches an incredible milestone this week in America, proving that there's still room for great and inventive new musicals, even if they only come along every once in a while. Hamilton has now spent 500 weeks on the Billboard 200. Billboard reports that it is the first Broadway cast recording to hit that incredible milestone, which remains elusive even for the most successful non-theatrical releases. This week, Hamilton manages to climb on the busy tally. While it doesn't approach its former high of No. 2 on the Billboard 200, it does improve from No. 39 to No. 32. Luminate reports that the cast recording shifted another 19,000 equivalent units in the past tracking period, with almost all of those units coming from streaming activity. As it reaches 500 weeks on the Billboard 200, Hamilton also climbs to another notable landmark on Billboard's Top Streaming Albums chart. That list measures the most successful titles on Spotify, Apple Music, and other similar platforms. The cast recording lifts from No. 31 to No. 28 this frame. That marks its new high on the list, though it has only spent 12 weeks on the tally overall. The same release also reaches 500 weeks on the Cast Albums chart — where one might expect Hamilton to perform best – at the same time it makes it to that sum on the Billboard 200. Throughout that time frame, it has racked up 427 stays at No. 1, and it holds in first place yet again this frame. Hamilton may be one of the only Broadway cast recordings to appear on Billboard's Top Rap Albums chart, which ranks the most consumed full-lengths in that genre throughout the U.S. It climbs on that list as well, pushing from No. 10 to No. 6. Amazingly, after 383 weeks, it still ranks among the 10 most consumed rap albums in the country, despite competition from some of the biggest names in that genre – and it's on that tally where it has previously reached No. 1.
Yahoo
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Leslie Odom Jr. to reprise role as Aaron Burr in ‘Hamilton' on Broadway
NEW YORK — "Hamilton" original cast member Leslie Odom, Jr. is going back to the room where it happens to reprise his Tony-winning role as Aaron Burr, the Broadway star announced Monday. His return will mark the 10th anniversary of the musical created by Lin-Manuel Miranda and directed by Thomas Kail. 'Returning to 'Hamilton' is a deeply meaningful homecoming,' Odom said in a statement. 'I'm so grateful for the chance to step back into the room — especially during this anniversary moment and to revisit this brilliant piece that forever changed my life and the lives of so many.' Odom will have a 12-week limited run from Sept. 9 through Nov. 23 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City. A new block of tickets went on sale Monday. Earlier in the day, the Queens native appeared on the 'Today' show and mentioned how award-winning theater producer Jeffrey Seller, whom he first worked with 25 years ago on 'Rent,' invited him back to 'Hamilton.' 'You don't get shows that run 10 years,' he shared. 'There are a lot of shows we love, great shows, that they come and they go — that's the nature of the theater. So for something to be embraced by the public and the culture, and the way that 'Hamilton' has and the way that 'Rent' was — it's twice in a lifetime.' Odom, 43, first played the former Vice President — who killed fellow founding father Alexander Hamilton in a duel — in the off-Broadway run of 'Hamilton' at the Public Theater before the show transferred to Broadway in August 2015. He departed the hit production in July 2016 along with fellow stars Phillipa Soo and Miranda. Since his 'Hamilton' heyday, the Carnegie Mellon University alum went on to score two Oscar nominations for his work as Sam Cooke in Regina King's historical drama 'One Night in Miami.' Odom also returned to Broadway in 2023 as both an actor and producer for 'Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch,' which earned him Tony Award nominations for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play and Best Revival of a Play. _______
Associated Press
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Associated Press
Leslie Odom Jr. to reprise his Tony-winning role in ‘Hamilton' this fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Leslie Odom Jr., one of the original cast members of the mega-hit Broadway musical 'Hamilton,' is coming back for another shot, a role he says 'gave me life.' Odom, who played Aaron Burr opposite Lin-Manuel Miranda's Alexander Hamilton, will return to his Tony Award-winning role at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Sept. 9 through Nov. 23. 'I was born on the stage of the Richard Rodgers in so many ways. It gave me life in a way,' he tells The Associated Press. 'I'm really looking forward to it.' Odom and Miranda both left the show in July 2016 after the same performance. Odom had been with 'Hamilton' since it first began performances in early 2015 off-Broadway. 'I look back on it fondly, I do,' he says. 'It was the start of so much for me. It was the start of a career that I always dreamed of. It's just the beginning. It's the genesis.' He estimates he played Burr some 500 times, but it never got boring: 'It still had revelation for me, and it still gave me reason to look a little deeper and focus a little harder.' When he returns, he'll be with a new company of actors and will bring to the audience his willingness to discover in the moment, something he says he learned doing 'Hamilton.' 'I want them to see something exciting and alive. And the best way for me to do that is to be open and present in that moment,' he adds. Odom earned another Tony nomination last year for the comedy 'Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch' by Ossie Davis. After 'Hamilton,' he was on the big screen in 'Glass Onion' with Daniel Craig and 'The Many Saints of Newark' with Alessandro Nivola, and portrayed Sam Cooke in 'One Night in Miami.' He lent his voice to the animated series 'Central Park' and starred opposite Kate Hudson in Sia's 'Music. ' His TV credits include 'Abbott Elementary' and 'Blue's Clues & You.' Odom, who studied at Carnegie Mellon University, became the youngest cast member in the Broadway company of 'Rent.' Before 'Hamilton,' he appeared on TV in the series 'Smash' and 'CSI: Miami,' in the film 'Red Tails' and on Broadway in 'Leap of Faith.' During the pandemic, Disney+ broadcast a filmed version of the original Broadway cast of 'Hamilton,' who Miranda has called 'an incredible '28 Yankees of actors'. The Broadway show won 11 Tony Awards, including best new musical, best book and best score. The cast album has been a blockbuster, and the show has toured to packed houses. The musical charts the rise and fall of statesman Hamilton and stresses his orphan, immigrant roots — 'Immigrants. We get the job done!' is one line that gets huge applause — as well as his almost Greek tragedy of a fall, fed by ambition. Based on a biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow and developed during the presidency of the first Black president, the show was optimistic and ambitious, tweaking Broadway traditions but respecting them, too. Odom says he's rereading Chernow's biography to get ready. Many in the cast alongside Odom were relatively unknown to the wider world when they hit the stage: Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Christopher Jackson, Okieriete Onaodowan, Anthony Ramos and Phillipa Soo. Even Miranda wasn't yet a brand name. Odom, who shoots Hamilton dead, sang on many of the musical's best songs, including ″Wait for It″ ″Dear Theodosia″ ″The Room Where It Happens″ and ″Your Obedient Servant.″
