Hamilton comes marching home

hiSTOrY has its Eyes On You is one of the songs in composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster musical hamilton, about one of america’s founding fathers, alexander hamilton.

Well, all eyes are likely to be on the disney+ subscription service on July 3 when the Broadway production of hamilton, filmed over several nights in 2016, will be shown.

The film, starring Miranda and many of the original cast, had been planned for a cinema release in the autumn of 2021. But it has been fast-tracked to attract folks to disney+ while they’re captive in their homes and cinemas and theatres are closed.

There’s some concern about whether the broadcast will harm future ticket sales for hamilton when it reopens at the Victoria Palace. however, there’s statistical evidence that the film version of Les Miserables actually spurred people on to see it performed live in the theatre.