Hamilton: 95 per cent of tickets already sold for musical’s Scottish debut

is one of the most eagerly awaited stage musicals to arrive in Scotland in modern times – and will be one of the longest running when it leaves Edinburgh at the end of April.

And it can now be revealed blockbuster musical Hamilton has smashed all box office records at the Festival Theatre more than a month ahead of its much-anticipated opening at the 1,915-capacity venue.

Bosses have confirmed more than 95 per cent of the tickets which went on sale in March last year have been snapped up for Lin-manuel Miranda’s historical hip-hop sensation, which is inspired by the son of a Scotsman who would become America’s first secretary of the treasury under George Washington.

Just 7,500 tickets of the 130,000 tickets are still to be sold for Hamilton’s Edinburgh run, from February 28 until April 27, despite some seats costing as much as £99.50.

Hamilton has become one of the highest-grossing stage shows of all-time globally, despite only launching less than a decade ago.

The theatre is preparing to welcome fans from more than 40 countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Ireland, the Philippines and the US for the show.

Edinburgh is the second stop on the first-ever UK tour of Hamilton, which is based on the life story of one of America’s “founding fathers”, Alexander Hamilton, who was born in the Caribbean, but was abandoned by his Ayrshire-born father and left orphaned when his mother died.

The show has been a box office sensation since it was launched offbroadway in 2015 – ten years after Miranda appeared with a hip hop improv group at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – winit ning multiple Tony, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize awards.

Fiona Gibson, chief executive of Capital Theatres, which runs the Edinburgh venue, said: “The level of interest we’ve had in Hamilton has far exceeded our expectations. We expected it to be popular, but we’ve never had anything on the scale of Hamilton.

“It’s on for a much longer run than any other show we’ve had here before. We sold more than 50 per cent of the tickets within 24 hours of the sale launching.”