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‘Just you wait’
Disney to release fi lm version
of ‘Hamilton’ with original
Broadway cast next year
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
edavenport@qns.com
@QNS
A fi lm version of “Hamilton”
with the original cast is coming
to the silver screen, but you’re
going to have to wait for it.
You won’t have to shell
out hundreds of dollars for a
Broadway ticket. The Walt
Disney Company, along with
“Hamilton” producers Lin-
Manuel Miranda, Jeff rey Seller
and Th omas Kail, announced
that the company will be releasing
a fi lm version of the 11-time
Tony-winning musical featuring
the original Broadway cast.
Th e fi lm version of the smashhit
production will be released
in movie theaters in the United
States and Canada on Oct. 15,
2021.
“Lin-Manuel Miranda created
an unforgettable theater
experience and a true cultural
phenomenon, and it was for
good reason that ‘Hamilton’ was
hailed as an astonishing work
of art. All who saw it with the
original cast will never forget
that singular experience,” said
Robert A. Iger, chairman and
chief executive offi cer, Th e Walt
Disney Company. “And we’re
thrilled to have the opportunity
to share this same Broadway
experience with millions of people
around the world.”
“We are thrilled for fans of the
show, and new audiences across
the world, to experience what it
was like on stage – and in the
audience – when we shot this
at Th e Richard Rodgers Th eatre
on Broadway in June of 2016.
We wanted to give everyone the
same seat, which is what this
fi lm can provide,” Kail
said.
The original
Broadway cast appearing
in the fi lm includes
Tony Award winners
Lin-Manuel Miranda
as Alexander Hamilton;
Daveed Diggs as Marquis de
Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson;
Renée Elise Goldsberry as
Angelica Schuyler; Leslie Odom
Jr. as Aaron Burr; Tony Award
nominees Christopher
Jackson as George
Washington; Jonathan
Groff as King George;
Phillipa Soo as Eliza
Hamilton; and Jasmine
Cephas Jones as Peggy
S c h u y l e r / M a r i a
Reynolds; Okieriete
Onaodowan as
Hercules Mulligan/
James Madison; and
Anthony Ramos
as John Laurens/
Philip Hamilton.
Th e cast also features
Carleigh Bettiol, Ariana
DeBose, Hope Easterbrook,
Photos by Joan Marcus
Sydney James Harcourt,
Sasha Hutchings, Th ayne
Jasperson, Elizabeth Judd,
Jon Rua, Austin Smith, Seth
Stewart and Ephraim Sykes.
“I fell in love with musical storytelling
growing up with the
legendary Howard Ashman-
Alan Menken Disney collaborations
— ‘Th e Little
Mermaid’, ‘Beauty and Th e
Beast’, ‘Aladdin,’” said
Miranda. “I’m so proud
of what Tommy Kail has
been able to capture in
this fi lmed version of
‘Hamilton’ — a live theatrical
experience that
feels just as immediate
in your local
movie theater. We’re
excited to partner
with Disney to bring
the original Broadway
company of ‘Hamilton’ to the
largest audience possible.”
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