‘Hamilton’ Mania

Atlanta will be one of first stops for smash Broadway musical

By Collin Kelley

Broadway blockbuster “Hamilton” is coming to the Fox Theater during the Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Atlanta 2017-18 season, but getting a ticket might be difficult.

Russ Belin, vice president of Broadway in Atlanta, said he’s been inundated with questions about “Hamilton,” but he can only say that it will definitely be on the Fox stage sometime in late 2017 or in 2018. “We have no exact dates or ticket prices,” Belin said. “We’re waiting to get that information from the production company.”

Belin said the only way to guarantee a ticket for “Hamilton” is to subscribe to the 2016-2017 season (which includes “Cabaret,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “The Bodyguard” and “An American in Paris”) and renewing for the 2017-2018 season. You can find out about subscriptions at atlanta.broadway.com. A sevenshow season package starts at just $224, Belin said.

Featurings music, lyrics and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton” was inspired by the 2004 biography “Alexander Hamilton” by historian Ron Chernow. The musical follows the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America, from bastard orphan to Washington’s right-hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country’s first sex scandal to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton and lifelong Hamilton friend and foe, Aaron Burr, all make appearances in the tuner about America’s fiery past.

Along with the clutch of Tony Awards it scooped up last month, Miranda (who is soon leaving the Broadway cast) also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Belin, who has seen “Hamilton” on Broadway, describes it as “brilliant.”

“The hype is well-deseved,” he said. “From the storyline and the music – it’s so original. You have to experience it in person.”

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