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“Tried scoring a ticket to catch the uber-hot “Hamilton” on Broadway? Your options might include selling an organ or waiting for months. A group of students will get to skip the lines with a coveted up-close performance of the Lin-Manuel Miranda-penned musical at the White House on Monday, March 14th. The cast will perform selections from the show and participate in a workshop and Q&A with students.
The president has seen the musical twice, and took daughters Sasha and Malia to a Broadway performance last summer. In a video, Miranda explains that the cast is trying out an educational program tied to the show — and promised to share videos shot at 1600 Penn. “You have no idea what’s about to hit you,” Miranda says.”
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Alexander Hamilton! We’ve been waiting in the East Wing for you. #Bam4Ham https://t.co/AD8S0nwo98
— The First Lady (@FLOTUS) March 9, 2016
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“#Ham4Ham, the joyous, free sidewalk performances outside Hamilton that are stoking the passions of a new generation of theater lovers: “For the past four months, the best show on Broadway has been spilling out into the streets. It started on the night of Hamilton’s first preview. The much-hyped, history-making show was sold out—except for the tickets that are sold via lottery two hours before showtime to lucky day-of visitors. Hours before the first preview was to begin, more than 700 fans showed up hoping to enter that ticket lottery—a pre-show turnout of the sort that hadn’t been seen since the closing night of Rent….
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Why #HamiltonBway never stops https://t.co/k76b3WQkuX .@Lin_Manuel proves his freestyle genius https://t.co/EjRxfQlltq
— The Lovely Plains (@DaRiverZkind) February 18, 2016
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton’s composer, lyricist, and star, seems to have a special place in his heart for lotteries and against-all-odds stories. His first musical, In the Heights, centered around what happens to the neighborhood of Washington Heights when the owner of a small bodega (played in the show’s original run by Miranda) discovers that he sold a winning lottery ticket worth $96,000. His newest musical tells another improbable success story, about “the founding father without a father” who went from orphaned immigrant to George Washington’s right-hand man. So perhaps it’s no surprise that Miranda responded to this extraordinary turnout of fans hoping for lightning to strike: Caught by surprise and moved by the crowd, he came out the stage doors onto 46th Street to give a short speech to the crowd. The afternoon of the next show, on Tuesday, July 15, Miranda made theater history all over again, inaugurating what could be a new Broadway tradition with the first official #Ham4Ham performance. Now, a couple of times a week, even those Broadway fans who can’t see Hamilton—because they didn’t win the lottery, or because they live far away from New York—get a special show just for them, in person or on the Internet…continued”
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The most 🔥🔥 mixtape of 2k16 is out! Here’s our interview with certified Genius @Lin_Manuel: https://t.co/YXg7hVGrDm pic.twitter.com/H4kQsvu0ku
— Another Round (@anotherround) March 8, 2016
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Performs at the White House Poetry Jam: a preview of ‘Hamilton’ & comes full circle from May 12, 2009
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