New Casting Announced for HAMILTON at the Victoria Palace Theatre

Jeffrey Seller and Cameron Mackintosh, producers of the West End production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s HAMILTON, are delighted to announce new casting for the show who will have their first performance at the Victoria Palace Theatre on 19 June 2023 where tickets are currently on sale to 2 March 2024.

Joining the cast will be Declan Spaine in the title role of Alexander Hamilton, Ava Brennan as Angelica Schuyler, Simbi Akande as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds, Dom Hartley-Harris as George Washington and Lemuel Knights as Marquis De Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson.

Joining the ensemble will be Gabriela Acosta, Elizabeth Armstrong, Alishia-Marie Blake, Aimie Hibbert, Sam Holden, Christian Knight, Nathan Louis-Fernand, Stacey McGuire, Lewis Newton, Hassun Sharif, Alex Tranter and Maddison Tyson.

Continuing in the show will be Simon-Anthony Rhoden as Aaron Burr, Shan Ako as Eliza Hamilton, Emile Ruddock as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison, Jake Halsey-Jones as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton and Joel Montague as King George III.  At certain performances the role of Alexander Hamilton will be played by Alex Sawyer. Continuing in the company will be Matthew Elliot-Campbell, Manaia Glassey-Ohlson, Maya Britto, Barney Hudson, Nicolais-Andre Kerry, Ella Kora, Aaron Lee Lambert, Kerri Norville, Samuel Sarpong-Broni, Lindsey Tierney and Brandon Williams.

A second National Company of HAMILTON will be touring the UK and Ireland opening this November at the Manchester Palace Theatre, followed by a season at Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Many performances in these venues are already sold out with both theatres seeing unprecedented levels of ticket sales. Further dates have just been announced at the Bristol Hippodrome (30 April – 22 June 2024; on sale 15 May 2023), Birmingham Hippodrome (25 June – 31 August 2024; on sale 10 May 2023) and Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin (17 September – 16 November 2024; on sale 28 April 2023).

The show will go on to play at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (26 November 2024 – 25 January 2025), Alhambra, Bradford (28 January – 15 March 2025), Mayflower, Southampton (18 March – 26 April 2025), Liverpool Empire (6 May – 7 June 2025), Sunderland Empire (17 – 26 July 2025), Plymouth Theatre Royal (30 July  – 6 September 2015) and Norwich Theatre Royal (16 September – 25 October 2025) with tickets for these venues on sale soon.

HAMILTON has book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is directed by Thomas Kail, with choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire and is based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton. HAMILTON features scenic design by David Korins, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Howell Binkley, sound design by Nevin Steinberg and hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe.

The Olivier, Tony, Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winning production opened at the newly re-built and restored Victoria Palace Theatre in London in December 2017 and continued to play there until the start of lockdown in March 2020. The production resumed performances in August 2021.

HAMILTON is produced in London by Jeffrey Seller, Sander Jacobs, Jill FurmanThe Public Theater and Cameron Mackintosh.

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