Hamilton at Steven Tanger Center

This December, Hamilton will be performing in Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts, the top-tier theatre of Greensboro plus, the greatest possible entertainment venue for the global phenomenon Musical. The critically acclaimed and multi-award winning show travels to you to tell its amazing story from town to town all over the globe.

Debuting off Broadway in 2015, Hamilton was not the instant Broadway smash that you will see now. Lin-Manuel Miranda has talked honestly about its inspiration, 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 singular performance gained praise and a well-deserved standing ovation from the audience at the time, including former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and directly led to Miranda’s creation of the Hamilton musical we see now.

Due to his previous experience in musical theater, Lin-Manuel Miranda has also taken inspiration from other popular theater pieces such as Les Misérables, which holds to a similar theme that tells the story of a struggle, and triumphing that struggle, as opposed to the traditional musical theatre biases that follow the trend of being 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 American Treasury Secretary. With the utmost respect to its source material, the production shows us both the good and bad in Alexander Hamilton’s rise to power, by not only showing us a look into his personal life and struggle, but also his impact and lasting legacy in being able to greatly shape America over that time.

With its story, the show continues to prove its relevance in American culture and even international public discourse, confronting themes and challenges that are highly relevant not only to North America, but also to the world. Even the use of musical genres like hip hop, jazz, and R&B as the main score has solidified its place in pop culture, making it one of the most popular hit Greensboro musicals today.