Another chance to see ‘Hamilton’ in Kansas City: The smash musical is coming back
“Hamilton” is returning to Kansas City.
The Kansas City Broadway Series, which only recently released its 2020-21 season, has whetted the appetites of theater-goers for 2021-22 by announcing that “Hamilton” will be on that season’s schedule. The smash-hit musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda ran for three weeks last summer to capacity audiences at the Music Hall.
The timing of the announcement is important, because season ticket holders for 2020-21 will have first shot at season tickets for 2021-22 (and thus for “Hamilton”). Season tickets for 2020-21 went on sale Feb. 9.
Individual tickets eventually will be available for “Hamilton,” but those sold out quickly for the 2019 shows at the Music Hall, even though the Broadway Series extended its usual run of eight shows to 24.
Demand was astronomical for “Hamilton” tickets for its first trip to Kansas City. As for the return to the 2,400-seat Music Hall, the actual dates and length of the run are still to be determined.
The show will be performed here by one of two companies touring North America while “Hamilton” continues to play to sellout crowds on Broadway.
Meanwhile, you can watch the original Broadway cast perform in a film of a 2016 performance, hitting movie theaters on Oct. 15, 2021. This isn’t a Hollywood adaptation in the vein of Miranda’s “In the Heights,” coming out this summer. The “Hamilton” movie is a “live capture” from the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway and includes Miranda as Alexander Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr, Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton and Jonathan Groff as King George.
(Speaking of “In the Heights,” that musical comes to the Kansas City Repertory Theatre beginning in March 2021.)
“Hamilton premiered on Broadway in 2015, winning 11 Tony Awards from its record 16 nominations as well as the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
It tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, the youngest of the Founding Fathers, using hip-hop, jazz, R&B and ballads. Hamilton was Gen. George Washington’s right-hand man at the age of 22 and became our nation’s first treasury secretary at 34.
The Kansas City Broadway Series is a collaboration between Broadway Across America, which brings productions to more than 40 North American cities, and the locally based American Theatre Guild, with 11 cities.
The current season has three shows remaining: “Fiddler on the Roof” (March 17-22 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts), “Disney’s Aladdin” (April 15-26 at Music Hall) and a series add-on show, “Menopause The Musical” (June 6 at Kauffman).
The 2020-21 season will open Oct. 27-Nov. 1 with “Mean Girls” at the Music Hall and will also include “The Band’s Visit,” “The Cher Show,” “Ain’t Too Proud” and “Tootsie.”
For more information, contact broadwayinkc.com or 816-421-7500.
