She is the creator of the brilliant Twitter/Instagram account Hamilton’s Squad. Kamille Upshaw at the Metropolitan Building, Long Island City Swing and Assistant Dance Captain Morgan Marcell Original ensamble cast member and Chicago cast member, Emmy Raver-Lampman Hercules Mulligan/James Madison, the incomparable Okieriete “Oak” OnaodowanĪriana DeBose, for her Broadway Bares campaign Departing briefly from cast members, this is Hollis Jane. Original Hamilton alternate and current Alexander Hamilton, Javier Munoz. Orignal ensamble member and Eliza understudy, Carleigh Bettiol. Original ensamble member, “the bullet”, Ariana DeBose Original ensamble member, Betsy Struxness. I continue to be honored as this project grows. I have been honored, I am honored, there are no words for it all. I have been honored to watch them perform. I have been honored to meet these lovely humans, to hear their stories, to learn about their lives. Through a serious of glorious events, I started to meet these ferocious talents, to have them in my studio, to collaborate with them on photo shoots that pushed my creativity through the roof. A turning of my head, a thought of “What if?” What if? A pulling towards the theater in a way that I haven’t been pulled in years. I wanted everyone in the world to be as transfixed as I was, and something new was born. The one who said “Have you listened to it yet, have you, have you, why not?” to everyone I knew. That terribly annoying friend who would just break into “Guns and Ships” as fast as I could, randomly, everywhere. I walked out of the Richard Rodgers that night and was then that person. What was this? What was this rapid-fire combination of rap, sounding so much like Shakespeare? What were these flawlessly fleshed out characters, so perfectly drawn? What was this insanely genius choreography? Who were these ridiculously talented cast members? Where has this show been my whole life? It was as good as everyone said, and so much more. I went into Hamilton well-versed in musical theater, thinking “I know this is going to be good, but can it really be as good as everyone says?” Upon moving back to New York in 2008, I started going to shows as often as I could. I moved to Florida, dabbled briefly in community theater, and then stopped altogether when my photography business became a full-time career. Schooled well in the art of performance and not at all in the art of business, I didn’t last long in New York. I got my BFA in acting and dance, worked briefly as an intern at the Roundabout Theatre, and moved to New York after college with headshots in hand and a new copy of Backstage. To give a little backstory, I’m not new to theater. The cast album wasn’t out yet, and all I’d heard were a few snippets of “My Shot” from YouTube. I had my rudimentary high school knowledge of the revolution…and not much else. I went into my first viewing of Hamilton knowing, well, not much. I was lucky, snagging seats in the first few months of opening night. When tickets finally opened up for its’ transfer to Broadway, I was online the second they went on sale. I’d heard about it’s extraordinary run at the Public Theater, but couldn’t (like most of New York) get a ticket to its’ Off-Broadway run. They won’t know Thomas Jefferson as a stodgy figure from their history books, but as Daveed Diggs, a true revelation in his Broadway debut. They’ll know Aaron Burr as portrayed by Leslie Odom, Jr., who rightly won a Tony for his genius work. Musical theatre fans will know Alexander Hamilton as portrayed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, in the musical that he wrote. They’ll know of his historic duel with Aaron Burr in Weehawken, New Jersey. ![]() History buffs will know him as the first Secretary of the Treasury, the founder of the New York Post, the man responsible for the creation of the Coast Guard. ![]() It’s the story of the “ten dollar founding father without a father,” Alexander Hamilton. If you’ve been living under a rock in 2015-2016, Hamilton is the biggest juggernaut to smash onto Broadway in years. When I bought my ticket to Hamilton in August 0f 2015, little did I know that a Hamilton Broadway photos project would soon become one of the most joyous undertakings of my career.
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