Release Date: 7/3/2020; Disney+
Genre: Biography/Historical
Rating: PG-13
Director: Thomas Kail
Studio(s): Walt Disney Pictures, 5000 Broadway Productions, RadicalMedia
Running Time: 160 mins.
Cast: Lin-Manuel Miranda (Alexander Hamilton), Phillipa Soo (Eliza Hamilton), Leslie Odom, Jr. (Aaron Burr), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler), Chris Jackson (George Washington), Daveed Diggs (Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Anthony Ramos (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler/ Maria Reynolds), Jonathan Groff (King George III).
Story: Live recording of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2015 Broadway musical of the same name. Hamilton tells the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. Inspired by the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. The show’s music draws heavily from hip hop, R&B, pop, soul, and traditional-style show tunes and casts non-white actors as the Founding Fathers and other historical figures. Source: Wikipedia.
Trailer:
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