Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Hamilton' crashes the Broadway billion-dollar club, thanks to ticket sales in New York and beyond, and purchases of ancillary items.
The hottest ticket on Broadway has just past global sales of $1 billion and shows no signs of slowing down.in-Manuel Miranda, of all people, knows better than to “throw away his shot.” While appearing with Walt Disney Chairman Bob Iger onMay, the creator of Broadway’s hottest ticket was simultaneously tweeting his 3.1 million #HamFam followers the news: Rather than having to wait until next year to seein movie theaters, fans would be able to stream it on Disney + over Independence Day weekend.
It’s easy to see the film version of Hamilton, which features Miranda and the entire original cast, as yet another victim of the global pandemic, which has left show business in the dark. But in a classic case of making lemonade out of lemons, the Disney + deal, worth an estimated $30 million to Miranda personally, was the icing on the financial cake for the Tony Award-winning hip-hop musical about the dawn of the United States.
And it did so far faster than other Broadway phenoms. The top three grossing musicals are all more than 16 years old.The Book of Mormon’s optimistic portrayal of an America-for-all, in which black and brown actors portray the Founding Fathers, seemed perfectly timed when it opened during the Obama presidency. The hyper-partisan political climate of the early days of the Republic carried smoothly into the Trump era.
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