The full cast has been announced for the eagerly awaited first UK and Ireland tour of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s multi-award-winning musical Hamilton.
Shaq Taylor (Beauty and the Beast, London Palladium/UK tour, Girl From the North Country, Gielgud Theatre) will take on the role of Alexander Hamilton, with Sam Oladeinde (Assassins, Chichester Festival Theatre, Come From Away, Phoenix Theatre) as Aaron Burr, Gabriela Benedetti (Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Playhouse Theatre, Legally Blonde, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds, KM Drew Boateng (Five Guys Named Moe, Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Motown The Musical, Shaftesbury Theatre) as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison, Daniel Boys (Falsettos, The Other Palace, The Boys in the Band, Vaudeville Theatre) as King George, Maya Britto (Hamilton, Victoria Palace Theatre, The Magician’s Elephant, RSC) as Eliza Hamilton, Aisha Jawando (TINA: The Tina Turner Musical, Aldwych Theatre, The Book of Mormon, Prince of Wales) as Angelica Schuyler, DeAngelo Jones (Hamilton, Victoria Palace Theatre, Kiss Me Kate, London Coliseum) as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton, Billy Nevers (Groundhog Day, The Old Vic, & Juliet, Shaftesbury Theatre) as Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson and Charles Simmons (Hamilton, Germany, TINA: The Tina Turner The Musical, Hamburg) as George Washington.
They will be joined by Simeon Beckett, Taylor Bradshaw, Cletus Chan, Kyerron Dixon-Bassey, Kyeirah D’marni, Yesy Garcia, Jonathan Hermosa-Lopez, Le vi 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.
Rehearsals have already begun for the production which is due to begin performances at the Manchester Palace Theatre on 11 November this year.
Unveiling the touring cast, Cameron Mackintosh said: “Jeffrey Seller and I are thrilled to introduce this hugely talented cast for the first ever UK and Ireland tour of Hamilton.
“I was fortunate to be in ‘the room where it happens’ earlier this week for the start of rehearsals and feel very proud that we will soon have two brilliant companies of Hamilton in the UK; in London at the Victoria Palace Theatre, where the show continues to break box office records and on tour, starting at the Palace Theatre Manchester in November. Jeffrey and I cannot wait for audiences around the country to discover, or enjoy again, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s revolutionary musical phenomenon.”
The musical will play a 15-week season in Manchester up to 24 February 2024 before heading for the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh (28 February to 27 April 2024). Public demand is already high for the production with many performances at both theatres already sold out.
Following Manchester and Edinburgh, Hamilton will visit Bristol Hippodrome (30 April to 22 June 2024), Birmingham Hippodrome (25 June to 31 August 2024), Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin (17 September to 16 November 2024), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (26 November 2024 to 25 January 2025), Alhambra Theatre, Bradford (28 January to 15 March 2025), Mayflower, Southampton (18 March to 26 April 2025), Liverpool Empire (6 May to 7 June 2025), Sunderland Empire (17 July to 26 July 2025), Theatre Royal, Plymouth (30 July to 6 September 2025) and Norwich Theatre Royal (17 September to 25 October 2025 ).
With the London production continuing to play to packed houses at the Victoria Palace Theatre where it is currently booking up to 2 March 2024, the new company for the UK and Ireland tour was chosen from over 3,000 hopeful artists.
Based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton, the musical which has a book, music and lyrics by Miranda is directed by Thomas Kail. Choreography is by Andy Blankenbuehler with musical direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, scenic design by David Korins, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Howell Binkley, sound design by Nevin Steinberg and hair and wig design by Charles G. Lapointe.
The Olivier, Tony and Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical opened at the newly re-built and restored Victoria Palace Theatre in London in December 2017. The musical continues to play to record breaking houses on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, throughout North America, in Toronto, Canada, Australia and Germany with forthcoming seasons in New Zealand. An international tour is also planned.
Angela Thomas
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