Landmark Musical ‘Hamilton’ Arrives In Austin.

The Details:

What: Hamilton, the off-Broadway musical.
When: 7:30 PM on April 1st (tickets); 2nd (tickets); and 3rd (tickets).

Where: Bass Musical Hall, Texas Performing Arts Center, “among the finest performance spaces in the country.”

Tickets: Click here.

Ten years after Hamilton premiered off-Broadway, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s landmark musical arrives in Austin with a new cast, a decade of cultural weight, and a staging that critics say “hasn’t lost the zing that made it a cultural phenomenon.”

Indeed, after a recent show in Dallas, Manuel Mendoza of the Dallas Morning News, called the vocal performances in this touring production “more soulful than in previous productions,” adding that on opening night the cast had audiences “leaning forward in their seats and cheering as if it was 1964 and the Beatles were in town.”

• Hamilton returns not as a historical footnote — but as part of the present tense: “In a deeply divided America,” writes Manuel Mendoza for the Dallas Morning News after the tour’s recent stop in the city, “it’s one of the things that makes Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2015 musical… seem more relevant than ever … fitting snugly in the canon of American musicals even as it continues to speak to the present day.”
  

• The Current Cast Continues To Rewrite The (Historical) Record. In an interview with Sosefina Fuamoli for Rolling Stone, Jimmie “JJ” Jeter, cast as Aaron Burr, describes the production as a collective act of meaning-making: “We’re having really tough conversations — ‘What does this mean? Who is this story for?
  

• The final song, “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story,” still asks the same question Miranda posed from the beginning — one that Jeter says the cast continues to interrogate: “How do we honour ourselves and disenfranchised voices?”
  

• For Tyler Fauntleroy, cast as Alexander Hamilton, it’s personal. Before he took the stage in the title role, Tyler Fauntleroy was, in his words, “a shy, little Black kid who was afraid of everything.” Now, as he told Rita Charleston of the Philadelphia Tribune, he sees the journey as a chance to lead by example: “I’d like to think I’m something of a role model for other kids out there to reach their own goals and to achieve their own dreams — just like I have.”
  

• For Lauren Mariasoosay, playing Eliza Hamilton is both personal and generational. “My ‘why’ has and always will be to provide outreach and representation to South Asian and mixed-race youth in the arts,” she told CanvasRebel. “I want them to know it’s possible and it’s real.”

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