‘Hamilton’ the film version to skip theaters and air directly on Disney+ this July
Originally, the film version of the mega hit stage play “Hamilton” was scheduled to hit theaters in October 2021. But with the current pandemic and movie houses closed for the immediate future, the Walt Disney Company along with creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda announced yesterday that “Hamilton” [the film] will be bypassing movie houses and be televised on Disney+ on July 3.
This year, creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda announced that a Hamilton movie — filmed in 2016 with the original Broadway cast at New York’s Richard Rodgers Theatre — was coming to theaters in October 2021. Given the show’s continued popularity onstage — it won 11 Tony Awards, spun off popular albums and books, spawned multiple successful touring companies and became an all-around pop-culture sensation — the announcement of a considerably less pricey theatrical release was a welcome surprise. ~ NPR
Filmed at The Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway in June of 2016, “Hamilton” features 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 Schuyler/Maria Reynolds; Okieriete Onaodowan as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison; and Anthony Ramos as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton.
The cast also includes Carleigh Bettiol, Ariana DeBose, Hope Easterbrook, Sydney James Harcourt, Sasha Hutchings, Thayne Jasperson, Elizabeth Judd, Jon Rua, Austin Smith, Seth Stewart and Ephraim Sykes.
(Source: Disney.Com)
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