Hamilton at Bass Concert Hall

This spring, Hamilton will be playing in Bass Concert Hall, the highly praised entertainment venue of Austin plus, the best possible entertainment venue for this world-wide phenomenon performance. The critics pick and award-winning show continues to tell its breathtaking story from city to city all over the Nation.

Premiering off Broadway in 2015, Hamilton was not instantly the Broadway hit that it is here. Lin-Manuel Miranda has spoken honestly about its origins, starting as a concept album in 2009, with Miranda sharing 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 gained praise and a well-deserved standing ovation from his crowd at the time, as well as former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and ultimately led to Miranda’s completion of the Hamilton musical we see now.

Because of his history in musical theater, Lin-Manuel Miranda has also drawn influences from other great theater pieces such as Les Misérables, which follows a similar theme that tells the story of a struggle, and overcoming that struggle, as opposed to the typical musical theatre biases that tend to be very positive and happy. Similarly Hamilton, being about the struggle of an orphaned immigrant from the Caribbean who climbed the ladder and became the first U.S. Treasury Secretary. With the greatest respect to its source material, Hamilton shows us both the good and bad in Alexander Hamilton’s rise to power, by not only offering us a peek into his character and struggle, but also his impact and effect in being able to significantly shape America over that time.

By telling this story, the production continues to display its importance in our modern culture and even on the international stage, confronting questions and topics that are very relevant not only to North 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 modern culture, making it one of the most popular hit Austin musicals today.