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NewJeffCT

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8. Starring/Named roles on Broadway rarely go longer than a year

Reply to renate (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 3, 2020, 04:49 PM

Feb 2020

especially for the original cast.

Hamilton premiered in the summer of 2015 and almost all the leading roles were gone by summer 2016 or the end of that year.

However, most of the original cast were in for the preview run the year before and also during "workshops" and in development for several years before that. Heck, Lin Manuel Miranda did the opening song for Obama in 2009!

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/8094406/happy-birthday-lin-manuel-miranda-original-hamilton-performance

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The original cast has left the show, ages ago. Staph Feb 2020 #6

Starring/Named roles on Broadway rarely go longer than a year NewJeffCT Feb 2020 #8