The original Broadway version of Hamilton College’s namesake is coming to its Clinton campus in September.
Lin-Manuel Miranda will be the college’s next guest in its Sacerdote Great Names series, taking part in a question-and-answer dialogue on Monday, Sept. 29 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his Tony Award-winning musical “Hamilton.”
Both the play and the college are named after Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers and the first Secretary of the Treasury.
Free tickets will be available to the public in early September here.
This won’t be the actor/songwriter/director/producer’s first trip to Hamilton College. He performed the opening number from “Hamilton” in September, 2011 as part of the kickoff celebration for the college’s bicentennial.
That was three years after Miranda started writing the musical based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Hamilton and four years before the show premiered. It earned 16 Tony nomination, winning 11 including two for Miranda — best book and best score of a musical. The play also won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in drama.
“Hamilton” has also won a Grammy for the original cast recording and four Emmy Awards for a film made with the 2015 Broadway cast.
Sacerdote Great Name Series
The Sacerdote Great Name Series began in 1996 to bring national and international leaders in government, business, science and the arts to campus to interact with students and staff, and to give free lectures.
The last speaker in the series was former President Barack Obama who spoke in April. Other recent speakers have included tennis great Venus Williams, writer and actress Tina Fey, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, former Yankee Derek Jeter, former First Lady and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.
More on Miranda
“Hamilton” is far from Mirand’s only award-winning project. Others include writing and starring in the 2008 Tony-winning musical “In the Heights”; co-composing and co-writing the lyrics for “Bring It On: The Musical” in 2013; writing music and lyrics, and singing in several songs in the Disney film “Moana”; co-writing new songs with Alan Menken for the live-action film version of “The Little Mermaid”; writing eight songs for the Disney film “Encanto”; and directing the film “tick, tick…BOOM!” in 2021.
Miranda also founded 5000 Broadway Productions, a company that works to include diverse and underrepresented voice in front of and behind the camera, and to make theater more accessible to the masses.
He and his family, through the Miranda Family Fund, support a number of causes, including increasing representation by people of color in the arts and in government, making sure women have access to reproductive health care and promoting resilience in Puerto Rico.
This article originally appeared on Observer-Dispatch: Lin-Manuel Miranda to speak at Hamilton College to honor the 10th anniversary of Hamilton
Reporting by Amy Neff Roth, Utica Observer Dispatch / Observer-Dispatch
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