‘Hamilton’: Two more of the cast leave

Two new Tony Award-winners from — Daveed Diggs and Renie Elise Goldsberry — will soon leave the Broadway company, while producers unveiled the new cast of the show’s upcoming Chicago production.

Diggs, who plays both the Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson, will leave the Broadway show today, while Goldsberry, who plays Angelica Schuyler, will leave sometime this autumn, her publicist confirmed. The duo will be joining the recently departed creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr and Phillipa Soo out the Hamilton door.

Meanwhile, Broadway veterans Miguel Cervantes, Karen Olivo and Alexander Gemignani were unveiled on Wednesday as the next leaders of the cast in Chicago.

Cervantes, whose Broadway credits include If/ Then and American Idiot, will play Alexander Hamilton this autumn when the Chicago production opens. Olivo, who won a Tony playing Anita in the 2009 Broadway revival of West Side Story, will portray Angelica Schuyler. Gemignani, who has been in Violet, Les Miserables and Sweeny Todd, will play King George III in the Chicago production.

The rest of the cast there will include Ari Afsar as Eliza Hamilton, Chris Lee as Lafayette/Jefferson, Wallace Smith as Hercules Mulligan and James Madison, and Samantha Marie Ware as Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds. Hamilton, which won 11 Tony Awards last month, on Tuesday held a fund-raiser for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, with donors paying between $2,700 (Dh9,914.67) and $10,000 for a seat, and event chairs contributing $100,000 for a two-seat package and a wrap party.