Hamilton Is Coming Back To Charlotte: Reports

CHARLOTTE, NC — The Tony-award winning Broadway smash hit “Hamilton,” which graced the stage of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center last fall, is headed back to Charlotte, according to Charlotte magazine.

Blumenthal Performing Arts confirmed the news to Charlotte magazine, it said Monday.

The theater recently announced it’s upcoming slate of shows coming to the Queen City for the 2019-2020 Broadway Lights season:

• Once On This Island: The Musical — Nov. 12-17, 2019
• The Play That Goes Wrong — Nov. 19 - Dec. 1, 2019
• Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Dec. 10-15, 2019
• Come From Away — Jan. 7-12, 2020
• My Fair Lady — Jan. 21-26, 2020
• Anastasia — April 28 - May 3, 2020
• Jesus Christ Superstar — July 28 - Aug. 2, 2020
• Frozen — Oct. 7-18, 2020

“Given this schedule, Hamilton seems poised for the 2021 side of the slate,” the magazine said.

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Written by Lin Manuel-Miranda, "Hamilton" is based on the 2004 biography "Alexander Hamilton," by historian Ron Chernow and incorporates hip-hop, jazz and R&B along with more traditional musical numbers to tell the story of the American founding father.

An immigrant from the West Indies, Hamilton became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the young country's first treasury secretary. Promotional material bills the wildly popular show as "the story of America then, as told by America now."

The show opened on Broadway in August 2015 and would go on to win 11 Tony Awards, out of a record 16 nominations, including Best Musical, and took the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.