When a hip-hop musical narrating the life of a Treasury secretary hit Broadway in 2015, a fair amount of faces on stage were still relatively unknown.
Many know the story of what to come next: “Hamilton” became an instant hit, sweeping praise and praise and drawing an army of devoted fans. There were 11 Tonys, not to mention the Grammy, Pulitzer Prize, and Kennedy Center Honor. Critics heralded the show as transformative, iconic of a new era in American musical theater.
And the original cast? The mix of Broadway veterans and newcomers rose to a status of celebrity that theater artists rarely achieve.
The show that will long be considered his most memorable performance is now immortalized on screen, filmed for three days in the summer of 2016 and now shown on Disney +. This is what the original cast members have been working on since their time on the show.
His character on the show: Alexander Hamilton.
His career since then: Whenever you feel like you have too much on your plate, like you can’t do it all, we invite you to look at Miranda’s workload since she left the show.
The creator of the musical and original Hamilton was already known in the theater world as the composer and lyricist of “In the Heights” (2008), his first Tony-winning Broadway show. And after the success of “Hamilton”, he has been keeping busy: He wrote songs for “Moana” in 2016 and starred in “Mary Poppins Returns” last year. On the small screen, he appeared in the “His Dark Materials” series on HBO, as well as “Fosse / Verdon” on FX, which also helped executive production. He returned to Broadway late last year with “Freestyle Love Supreme,” the impromptu hip-hop music show he helped create. He will soon have a role and served as a producer on the film adaptation of “In the Heights,” and is working on two new songwriting projects for Disney: an animated music set in Colombia and a live-action remake of ” The Little Mermaid, “for which he’s writing new lyrics with original songwriter Alan Menken. He’s also slated to direct a film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s musical” Tick, Tick … Boom! “For Netflix.
Leslie Odom Jr.
His character on the show: Aaron Burr. Odom won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his turn as Hamilton’s dangerously ambitious rival.
His career since then: He has released two albums and has had roles in such films as the 2017 mystery “Murder on the Orient Express” and the 2019 biopic “Harriet.” Odom will also star in several films, including Regina King’s “One Night in Miami” (he’s playing Sam Cooke), John Ridley’s “Needle in a Timestack” and the “Sopranos” prequel, “The Many Saints of Newark.”
Renée Elise Goldsberry
His character on the show: Angelica Schuyler. Goldsberry was a familiar face on Broadway, having previously appeared in “Rent,” “The Lion King” and the original cast of “The Color Purple,” before her performance as Schuyler’s older sister earned her Tony for Best Actress. in a musical.
His career since then: He has focused his attention on film and television, appearing in the 2019 Trey Edward Shults drama “Waves” and portraying the title character, opposite Oprah Winfrey, in “Henrietta Lacks’ Immortal Life” (2017) – the adaptation Cinematic HBO Best Selling Book of 2010. He has starred in the Netflix science fiction series “Altered Carbon” since 2018.
Phillipa Soo
His character on the show: Eliza Hamilton, Alexander’s wife.
His career since then: Soo’s most recent stage role was Off Broadway, in “Tumacho,” a supernatural western comedy that lasted less than a month before the pandemic shut down live performances. Her other shows after “Hamilton” have had somewhat longer performances, including “Amélie” on Broadway, where Soo starred in the musical based on the 2001 French film, and “The Parisian Woman,” where she appeared alongside Uma Thurman. . On screen, Soo will be seen soon on “The Broken Hearts Gallery,” a romantic comedy that will be released in theaters next month. She is also voicing the moon goddess Chang’e in the Netflix animated musical “Over the Moon” later this year.
His characters on the show: Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson. His double role led Tony to win as a featured actor in a musical.
His career since then: He then starred in the 2018 movie “Blindspotting,” which he also co-wrote. But she’s spent much of the past few years on television, recently starring in TNT’s “Snowpiercer,” the dystopian thriller series adapted from the 2013 film Bong Joon Ho. He also appeared in “black-ish”, “Central Park”, “The Get Down” and “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”. Diggs was on the rotating cast of “Freestyle Love Supreme” on Broadway with fellow cast members “Hamilton” Miranda and Christopher Jackson, and a documentary on that show will premiere on Hulu on July 17. Here are two Disney projects: He is providing a voice in Pixar’s short story “Soul” and portraying Sebastian in the live action “The Little Mermaid”.
Anthony Ramos
His characters on the show: John Laurens, a fellow revolutionary, and Hamilton’s son Philip.
His career since then: Ramos’ biggest role will come in another project by Lin-Manuel Miranda, as the protagonist Usnavi in the film adaptation of “In the Heights”, which will be released next summer. He also starred in Spike Lee’s Netflix reboot “She’s Gotta Have It” and on the big screen appeared in “A Star Is Born” (2018) and the recent “Trolls World Tour”. Ramos will also have a role in the movie “Honest Thief” later this year, alongside Liam Neeson and her “Hamilton” veteran Jasmine Cephas Jones, who happens to be his fiancé.
His characters on the show: Peggy Schuyler, Schuyler’s youngest sister, and Maria Reynolds, Hamilton’s mistress.
His career since then: He moved from Broadway in 2019, starring in the musical “Cyrano” alongside Peter Dinklage. She also appeared in “Mrs. Fletcher” and “Girls” and continues to work with other cast members of “Hamilton”: she was in “Blindspotting” with Diggs, and will be in “Honest Thief” with Ramos and “One Night in Miami.” with Odom.
Jonathan Groff
His character on the show: King George III.
His career since then: Groff’s most recent role on stage was a total of 180 of the pompous caped monarch who played several years ago. In the ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ revival that opened Off Broadway in 2019, the royal dramas were replaced by a sharp drop in confidence when Seymour, the nerdy florist worker in charge of running a man-eating plant. Last year, Groff also reprized his role as Kristoff in “Frozen 2” (with his own ’80s ballad to sing this time) and has starred in the significantly less lighthearted Netflix series “Mindhunter.”
Christopher Jackson
His character on the show: George Washington
His career since then: Jackson was a Broadway veteran (his credits include Miranda’s “In the Heights”) when he joined “Hamilton”. After leaving the show, he was a rotating guest on the Broadway show “Freestyle Love Supreme” until closing night earlier this year. He appeared in “When They See Us” on Netflix and voiced the father of “Moana” in 2016. He also stars in “Bull” on CBS, which he began filming while still on “Hamilton.”
His characters on the show: Hercules Mulligan, another revolutionary, and James Madison.
His career since then: Onaodowan took over for Josh Groban in “Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812” on Broadway. On the small screen, he appeared in “The Get Down”, “Girls” and “BoJack Horseman”. But his main role has been playing firefighter Dean Miller for three seasons of the “Grey’s Anatomy” spin-off “Station 19.”
