Lin-Manuel Miranda "HAMILTON" Luis A. Ferre Arts Center 2019 Puerto Rico Program

Description

This is a rare January 2019 program (playbill) from the benefit engagement of the Pulitzer Prize winning LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA musical "HAMILTON" at the Luis A. Ferre Performing Arts Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (The Original Broadway production opened August 8th, 2015
at New York's Richard Rodgers Theatre
and is still selling out nightly. The three-week Puerto Rico engagement opened January 11th, 2019 and ran through January 27th, 2019.) ..... Winner of eleven Tony Awards including "Best Musical", the show starred creator LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA in the title role, SIMON LONGNIGHT as the "Marquis de Lafayette", SABRINA SLOAN as "Angelica Schuyler", RICK NEGRON as "King George", ISAIAH JOHNSON as "George Washington", DARILYN CASTILLO as "Peggy Schuyler" and "Maria Reynolds", DONALD WEBBER, Jr. as "Aaron Burr", BRANDON LOUIS ARMSTRONG as "Hercules Mulligan" and "James Madison", RUBEN J. CARBAJAL as "John Laurens" and "Philip Hamilton" and JULIA K. HARRIMAN as "Eliza Hamilton" ..... Side note: The sold-out Puerto Rico engagement raised about million for Lin-Manuel Miranda's Flamboyan Arts Fund, which benefits arts in Puerto Rico; the first beneficiary having been the restoration of the University of Puerto Rico's Teatro UPR which was badly damaged by Hurricane Maria in September of 2017 ..... CREDITS: Book, Music and Lyrics by LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA inspired by the book "Alexander Hamilton" by RON CHERNOW; Sets designed by DAVID KORINS; Costumes designed by PAUL TAZEWELL; Music Direction and Orchestrations by ALEX LACAMOIRE; Choreographed by ANDY BLANKENBUEHLER; Directed by THOMAS KAIL; Produced by JEFFREY SELLER, SANDER JACOBS, JILL FURMAN and THE PUBLIC THEATER ..... DETAILS: The twenty page playbill measures 5 1/2" X 8 1/2" inches and includes full production credits, cast list, a synopsis of the story, list of musical numbers and bios of each of the actors and members of the creative team as well as individual head shots of each of the cast members ..... CONDITION: With the exception of light creasing from normal handling, this playbill is in excellent condition and will make a wonderful addition to the collection of any musical theatre aficionado or historian. This item will be carefully packaged in a protective, carded sleeve and backed by stiff cardboard.