Full casting announced for Hamilton UK and Ireland tour
The room where it happens might be coming to you
Last updated 21st Sep 2023
Producers Jeffrey Seller and Cameron Mackintosh have announced casting for the first ever UK and Ireland Tour of the multi award-winning Hamilton, with Shaq Taylor as Alexander Hamilton, Sam Oladeinde as Aaron Burr, Gabriela Benedetti as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds, KM Drew Boateng as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison, Daniel Boys as King George, Maya Britto as Eliza Hamilton, Aisha Jawando as Angelica Schuyler, DeAngelo Jones as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton, Billy Nevers as Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson and Charles Simmons as George Washington.
They are joined by Simeon Beckett, Taylor Bradshaw, Cletus Chan, Kyerron Dixon-Bassey, Kyeirah D’marni, Yesy Garcia, Jonathan Hermosa-Lopez, Levi Tyrell Johnson, Honey Joseph, Akmed Junior Khemalai, Richard Logun, Buna McCreery-Njie, Mia Mullarkey, Antoine Murray-Straughan, Kiran Patel, Izzy Read, Alice Readie, Harry Robinson, Phoebe Samuel-Gray, Jasmine Jia Yung Shen, Samantha Shuma, Michael James Stewart, Rhys West, Jack Whitehead and Sian Yeo.
Hamilton UK and Ireland tour dates:
Manchester Palace Theatre: Saturday 11th November 2023 - Saturday 24th February 2024
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh: Wednesday 28th February – Saturday 27th April 2024
Bristol Hippodrome: Tuesday 30th April- Saturday 22nd June
Birmingham Hippodrome: Tuesday 25th June – Saturday 31st August 2024
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin: Tuesday 17th September – Saturday 16th November 2024
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: Thursday 26th November 2024 – Saturday 25th January 2025
Alhambra Theatre, Bradford: Tuesday 28th January – Saturday 15th March 2025
Mayflower, Southampton: Tuesday 18th March – Saturday 26th April 2025
Liverpool Empire: Tuesday 6th May – Saturday 7th June 2025
Sunderland Empire: Tuesday 17th July – Saturday 26th July 2025
Theatre Royal, Plymouth: Wednesday 30th July – Saturday 6th September 2025
Norwich Theatre Royal: Wednesday 17th September – Saturday 25th October 2025
The hit musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda first opened on Broadway in 2015 and holds the record for most Tony Award nominations. Over here, the musical jointly holds the record as the musical with the most Olivier Awards alongside Matilda The Musical and the 2021 revival of Cabaret.
Cameron Mackintosh said: “Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton is indisputably the most brilliant, ground-breaking, contemporary musical of modern times. I feel extraordinarily fortunate that Lin and my friend Jeffrey Seller, the show’s original producer, have entrusted me with their wonderful musical in the UK and Ireland.
“The London production opened in 2017 at the Victoria Palace, a theatre I completely rebuilt to house Hamilton, where it continues to play and has proved to be as big a success as the Broadway original. So, I am thrilled that it is time to put together a second British national touring company to bring this great show to our leading cities. Opening first in Manchester, followed by Edinburgh – not far from where the real story of Alexander Hamilton began in Ayrshire, where his father was born in the 1700’s, before he moved to Nevis in the West Indies. Tomorrow we start casting for a brilliant new company. We look forward to welcoming audiences to “the room where it happens”.
To get tickets and to keep updated you can visit the Hamilton musical website.
The West End production continues to run at the Victoria Palace where its currently booking through until 2nd March 2024.
Take a look through Lin-Manuel Miranda's career:
In the Heights
Lin started work on his first musical, In the Heights in 1999 while he was still a student at Wesleyan University where an early version was performed by their theatre company. Lin continued to work on the show over the years and the musical premiered in Connecticut in 2005, then opened Off-Broadway in 2007 before making it to Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre in March 2008.
The Broadway production was nominated for 13 Tony Awards where it won four including Best Musical and Best Original Score and Lin famously rapped his acceptance speech!
West Side Story
A new revival of West Side Story arrived on Broadway back in 2009 and a key change they made was that many of the Sharks would speak and sing with each other in Spanish. Lin was hired to work alongside the musical's original lyricist, Stephen Sondheim to work on the Spanish lyrics for this bilingual production.
Bring It On The Musical
Lin worked alongside Tom Kitt (Next to Normal, If/Then) and Amanda Green (Hands on a Hardbody) on the music and lyrics for the musical adaptation of Bring It On. The musical first opened in Atlanta in 2011 and then embarked on a US tour before opening on Broadway in 2012. The musical came to the UK for a national tour in 2017 and is just closing its second UK run at London's Southbank Centre.
Hamilton
Probably one of his most significant career moments so far, Lin wrote and starred in the musical Hamilton which took Broadway by storm when it opened in 2015. The sung-and-rapped-through musical tells the story of the American founding fathers through a modern lens with contemporary music and a diverse cast. Lin described the musical as "America then, as told by America now".
The musical swept the Tony Awards with a record breaking 16 nominations and 11 wins. The show's inevitable West End transfer came in 2017 at the Victoria Palace theatre where the show once again was met with rave reviews and won seven Olivier Awards.
Moana
Lin was recruited by Disney to write songs for their 2016 animated feature Moana, which starred Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House, Temuera Morrison, Jemaine Clement, Nicole Scherzinger, and Alan Tudyk. Lin also provided vocals for the song 'We Know the Way'.
The song 'How Far I'll Go' was nominated at the Academy Awards for Best Original Song and also won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written For Visual Media.
Mary Poppins Returns
A couple of years later Lin's name was attached to another Disney feature but this time he was in front of the camera. Lin starred in the 2018 film Mary Poppins Returns where he played Jack – a former apprentice of Bert from the original Mary Poppins film. The film has a star-studded cast including Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins, along with Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Angela Lansbury, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep and of course, Dick Van Dyke was in the cast.
His Dark Materials
Lin appeared in His Dark Materials which is a TV adaptation of Sir Philip Pullman's novel of the same name where he played the role of aeronaut Lee Scoresby. The series was primarily filmed in South Wales with Lin definitely enjoying his time there, he was even spotted at a musical theatre night at a local Cardiff pub!
In the Heights film
Everything came full circle as Lin's first musical, In the Heights was adapted into a feature film. Despite being delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, In the Heights finally arrived in cinemas in June 2021 and we absolutely loved it. Lin described how it felt to be seeing the community he grew up with put on the big screen.
tick, tick… BOOM!
Proving he has plenty more talents to show us, Lin made his directorial debut with tick, tick… BOOM! which arrived on Netflix in November 2021. The film is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical musical of the same name by RENT composer Jonathan Larson and stars Andrew Garfield and Vanessa Hudgens.
Encanto
Following the success of Moana, it's no surprise that Disney have invited Lin back to write songs for another one of their animated features. Encanto about a young Colombian girl who has to face the frustration of being the only member of her family who has no magical powers. The film stars Brooklyn Nine-Nine and In the Heights' Sephanie Beatriz and was released at the end of 2021.
The Little Mermaid
As Disney continue with their live-action remakes, The Little Mermaid starring Halle Bailey, Daveed Diggs and Melissa McCarthy will include the songs from the original animated film as well as some new ones with Lin collaborating with one of the key composers from the Disney renaissance, Alan Menken.
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