'Hamilton': Daveed Diggs Sets Exit Date, Chicago Cast Announced, In a abruptness advertisement Wednesday morning, Hamilton beforehand ambassador Jeffrey Seller bankrupt the account that Daveed Diggs, who won a Tony Award for his bifold role as the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, will abruptly avenue the Broadway assembly Friday.
His abrupt abandonment follows those of the show's architect and aboriginal beforehand Lin-Manuel Miranda, as able-bodied as Phillipa Soo and adolescent Tony champ Leslie Odom Jr. Diggs has been one of the blemish stars of the aboriginal company; it was broadly affected he had renewed his arrangement to break on with the show.
While Lafayette and Jefferson are getting adapt on Broadway, adept understudies Andrew Chappelle, Austin Smith and Seth Stewart will alternating in the roles.
In added Hamilton news, casting for the show's accessible Chicago assembly is now in place, with Miguel Cervantes, who has appeared on Broadway in If/Then, American Idiot and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, landing the beforehand role of Alexander Hamilton.
Karen Olivo, a Tony champ for the 2009 Broadway awakening of West Side Story and an aboriginal castmember of Miranda's blemish musical, In the Heights, will play Anjelica Schuyler. The role of King George III will be played by date adept Alexander Gemignani, who starred as Jean Valjean in the 2009 awakening of Les Miserables and has aswell appeared on Broadway in Violet, Assassins, Sunday in the Park with George and Sweeney Todd.
The Chicago staging of Hamilton will affection above American Idol adversary Ari Asfar as Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, Chris Lee as Lafayette and Jefferson, Joseph Morales as Cervantes' alternate, Jose Ramos as John Laurens and Phillip Hamilton, Wallace Smith as Hercules Mulligan and James Madison, and Samantha Marie Ware as Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds. Both Lee and Morales are alumni of the In the Heights civic tour.
Casting for the collective beforehand role of Aaron Burr in Chicago has not yet been announced.
Performances of Hamilton activate Sept. 27 at Chicago's PrivateBank Theatre, appearance the aboriginal assembly of the appearance above New York. A abstracted touring assembly bliss off next March in San Francisco, while a London assembly will aswell activate in 2017.
Hamilton has been the better accident to hit Broadway in decades, acceptable 11 Tony Awards and affairs out for months in advance. The show's accumulative box appointment back it began performances at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on July 13 endure year has hit $88 million.
His abrupt abandonment follows those of the show's architect and aboriginal beforehand Lin-Manuel Miranda, as able-bodied as Phillipa Soo and adolescent Tony champ Leslie Odom Jr. Diggs has been one of the blemish stars of the aboriginal company; it was broadly affected he had renewed his arrangement to break on with the show.
While Lafayette and Jefferson are getting adapt on Broadway, adept understudies Andrew Chappelle, Austin Smith and Seth Stewart will alternating in the roles.
In added Hamilton news, casting for the show's accessible Chicago assembly is now in place, with Miguel Cervantes, who has appeared on Broadway in If/Then, American Idiot and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, landing the beforehand role of Alexander Hamilton.
Karen Olivo, a Tony champ for the 2009 Broadway awakening of West Side Story and an aboriginal castmember of Miranda's blemish musical, In the Heights, will play Anjelica Schuyler. The role of King George III will be played by date adept Alexander Gemignani, who starred as Jean Valjean in the 2009 awakening of Les Miserables and has aswell appeared on Broadway in Violet, Assassins, Sunday in the Park with George and Sweeney Todd.
The Chicago staging of Hamilton will affection above American Idol adversary Ari Asfar as Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, Chris Lee as Lafayette and Jefferson, Joseph Morales as Cervantes' alternate, Jose Ramos as John Laurens and Phillip Hamilton, Wallace Smith as Hercules Mulligan and James Madison, and Samantha Marie Ware as Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds. Both Lee and Morales are alumni of the In the Heights civic tour.
Casting for the collective beforehand role of Aaron Burr in Chicago has not yet been announced.
Performances of Hamilton activate Sept. 27 at Chicago's PrivateBank Theatre, appearance the aboriginal assembly of the appearance above New York. A abstracted touring assembly bliss off next March in San Francisco, while a London assembly will aswell activate in 2017.
Hamilton has been the better accident to hit Broadway in decades, acceptable 11 Tony Awards and affairs out for months in advance. The show's accumulative box appointment back it began performances at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on July 13 endure year has hit $88 million.
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