‘Hamilton’ Is Coming to Los Angeles This Summer

The critically-acclaimed show, based on the American Revolution and the first Treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton, will open at the Pantages Theatre on August 11, 2017, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The remaining four shows in the 2016-17 season have not been announced yet.

A national tour of the Broadway musical HAMILTON will open in spring 2017 in San Francisco and continue to Los Angeles, it was just announced today by producer Jeffrey Seller.

The script is inspired by Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography of Hamilton, and is directed by Thomas Kail.

As The New York Times raved: “A show about young rebels grabbing and shaping the future of an unformed country, “Hamilton” is making its own resonant history by changing the language of musicals”.

Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway, HAMILTON is the story of America then, as told by America now.

Hundreds of people have been lining up outside the Richard Rodgers Theatre in Manhattan on performance days to try their hands at winning the ticket lottery, prompting the show’s management presenter to move proceedings online for safety reasons. That production will begin on September 27 of this year. The national tour kicks off in Chicago this fall and also will stop in San Francisco. The show’s popular lottery, which offers $10 discount tickets to the lucky few who get drawn, recently moved from an in-person drawing to a digital one and the site crashed from high traffic on its first day. But, again, they will go fast.