We told you so! Hamilton will reopen Cameron Mackintosh's renovated Victoria Palace Theatre in London. The massive Broadway hit, nominated for a record-breaking 16 Tony Awards, will open in the West End in October 2017. No word yet on casting, but creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda is aiming to headline the production in 2018 or 2019.
“The support Hamilton has received from our British fans has been incredible—I have been reminded of their love, which is just as our King George would want it to be!" said Miranda in a statement. "I’m thrilled the show will be shared with UK audiences starting in the fall of 2017 at the beautiful Victoria Palace Theatre."
Directed by Thomas Kail and featuring a book, music and lyrics by 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.
Hamilton is currently playing to standing room only audiences at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre. Starring Miranda in the title role, the cast also includes Rory O'Malley as King George III, 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.