Hamilton at Bass Concert Hall

This spring, Hamilton will be playing in Bass Concert Hall, the highest rated venue of Austin as well as the No.1 possible venue for the global phenomenon Musical. The acclaimed and multi-award winning performance continues to tell its unbelievable tale from theatre to theatre all over the Country.

Getting its start off Broadway in 2015, Hamilton was not instantly the Broadway hit that it is today. Lin-Manuel Miranda has talked publicly about its beginnings, starting as a concept album in 2009, with Miranda saying that he was “thrilled that the White House called me tonight, because I’m actually working on a hip-hop album. It's a concept album about the life of someone I think embodies hip-hop: treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton.” That one single performance resulted in praise and a well-deserved standing ovation from the audience at the time, as well as former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and has led to Miranda’s creation of the Hamilton musical we see today.

Due to his previous experience in musical theater, Lin-Manuel Miranda has also taken influences from other successful theater pieces such as Les Misérables, which is based on a common theme that tells the story of a struggle, and overcoming that struggle, instead of the typical musical theatre biases that tend to be very positive and happy. Similarly Hamilton, being about the difficulties arising as an orphaned immigrant from the Caribbean who rose to power and became the first American Treasury Secretary. With the greatest respect to its source material, Hamilton shows us both sides of Alexander Hamilton’s rise to power, by not only showing us a peek into his character and struggle, but also his influence and lasting legacy in being able to greatly shape the Nation over that time.

By telling this story, Hamilton continues to display its relevance in our modern culture and even international public discourse, confronting topics and issues that are very relevant not only to America, but also globally. Even the use of musical styles of hip hop, jazz, and R&B as the productions score has solidified its place in pop culture, making it one of the most exciting hit Austin musicals today.