Hold onto your swords, boots and white ruffles my friends, because Hamilton is heading over to Melbourne, and there’s sure to be a fkn frenzy once the tickets go on sale.
Yep, you read that right my Melburnian friends, Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s award-winning musical about Alexander Hamilton is going to be ditching Sydney after a full year, and will be hitting up Melbourne. Friendship over with NSW, now Victoria is Hamilton’s best friend.
The musical extravaganza will be coming to Her Majesty’s Theatre as early as March, and will most likely stay around for a full year (pending it sells well, which it absolutely will). This will come after the play has spent a full year entertaining sold-out crowds at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre.
The arrival of Hamilton to Melbourne will see the departure of the beloved Frozen musical from Disney, while in Sydney, Mary Poppins will be popping by to replace Hamilton as it says goodbye for god knows how long.
When hip-hop history musical Hamilton first arrived in Sydney, it broke box office records in Australia by selling over 250,000 tickets before the first preview had even commenced. What that also means is over $40 million was spent on tickets, meaning Hamilton surpassed the sales of huge musicals like Phantom of the Opera, Wicked and The Lion King.
Believe it or not, Hamilton actually first premiered in 2015, which seems like a lifetime ago now. I could have sworn the musical about America’s history has only been around for a couple of days, but then again I guess it was around during Tumblr’s peak so, it all adds up.
Since its stunning debut overseas, it has won 11 Tony Awards and a Grammy for Best Musical Theatre Album. That means the musical is only two accomplishments away from being an EGOT. All it needs now is a television series and a movie, which honestly feels like something that could happen pretty soon.
Well Melburnians, get excited to embrace the wonders of Hamilton in 2022. Meanwhile, I, who is yet to see the musical on stage, will just stay here in Sydney sobbing into a print-out sheet of the lyrics for all of the fire songs.
