HAMILTON
Hamilton is the cast album to the 2015 musical Hamilton. The musical is based on the 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton written by Ron Chernow, with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The recording stars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Jasmine Cephas Jones, and Jonathan Groff. It achieved the largest first week sales for a digital cast album and is the highest-charting cast album since 1963. It was the highest-selling Broadway cast album of 2015 and peaked at number one on the Rap Albums chart, the first cast album to ever do so. (More from Wikipedia)
Hit Broadway shows come and go, but there is something special about Hamilton, the current hit musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The show opened on Broadway about a year ago (August 6, 2015) after an acclaimed Off-Broadway run earlier in the year, and it remains the hottest ticket in town. Hamilton, the Original Broadway Cast album for Hamilton was released the month following the move to Broadway and debuted at #12 on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart – remarkably, that is the highest placement for a cast album in more than 50 years. Also, the Tony Awards broadcast this year had its best ratings in 15 years.
(September 2016)
