Lin-Manuel Miranda will be on the stage of the Lincoln Center Theater again, for a benefit concert, as King Arthur in a one-night-only performance of “Camelot” on March 4 at 6:30PM.
The New York Times: Lin-Manuel Miranda is going to be king for a day.
The acclaimed creator of “Hamilton” has agreed to lead a one-night concert performance of “Camelot” to benefit Lincoln Center Theater, the nonprofit’s leadership said Thursday.
Mr. Miranda will play the legendary King Arthur in the concert — a role originally played on Broadway by Richard Burton and on film by Richard Harris.
The best seats will cost a pretty penny: Benefit tickets, which include dinner with the cast, start at $2,500, and are available now. Starting Feb. 19 there will also be performance-only tickets available, for $95 and $195, as well as online lottery seats for $30.
The beneficiary, Lincoln Center Theater, is one of the city’s most prestigious nonprofits, presenting work in its Broadway house (the Vivian Beaumont) as well as Off Broadway.
The “Camelot” concert, which will be staged without costumes or sets, will take place on March 4, and will be directed by Bartlett Sher, whose productions at Lincoln Center Theater include the currently running “My Fair Lady” revival, as well as “South Pacific,” for which he won a Tony Award. The concert will feature a 30-piece orchestra.
The rest of the cast will include Solea Pfeiffer as Guenevere, Jordan Donica as Sir Lancelot, Dakin Matthews as Merlyn, Ruthie Ann Miles as Nimue, Ethan Slater as Mordred, Julie White as Morgan Le Fey, and Jenn Colella, Jason Danieley and Bonnie Milligan as three of the Knights of the Round Table.
“Camelot,” which features music by Frederick Loewe and book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, first opened on Broadway in 1960; the film adaptation was in 1967. (Fun fact: The “Camelot” composers also wrote “My Fair Lady,” and this “Camelot” concert will take place on the stage where “My Fair Lady” is now running.)
Mr. Miranda won the Pulitzer Prize and two Tony Awards for writing “Hamilton,” and just finished leading the cast of a touring production of that show in San Juan, P.R. He is now co-producing, and expected occasionally to appear in, a Greenwich House Theater run by Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip-hop improv group he co-founded (and which, in 2014, had a brief run at Lincoln Center Theater).
He has described himself as a childhood fan of “Camelot,” which he knows from the cast album and has said is his mother’s favorite score. (It even gets a shout-out in “Hamilton” when Lafayette, who refers to himself as “the Lancelot of the revolutionary set,” says, “Who’s the best? C’est moi!” — a reference to a song sung by Lancelot in “Camelot.”)
“I’ve never seen a production of ‘Camelot’,” Mr. Miranda once told Time Out Chicago, “but I can tell you the version in my head, and it’s incredible.”
On January 28, Lin-Manuel Miranda gave a few interviews before leaving Puerto Rico.
Watch the inteviews to El Nuevo Dia and El Rojo Vivo below and check the photo in Gallery.
On January 27, Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of Hamilton said goodbye to the audience at the end of the performance during the closing night at Centro de Bellas Artes in San Juan waving a Puerto Rican flag each one of them.
Check in Gallery the photos of the night and below some videos that captured the most emotional moments. [EDIT: Added more photos in Gallery.]
Stage Production > 2019 – Hamilton: Puerto Rico > Closing Night (Centro de Bellas Artes)
Public Appearances > 2019 > 27 January – “Hamilton: Puerto Rico” Backstage
Public Appearances > 2019 > 27 January – After Party of ‘Hamilton’ closing night at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Under the cut, you can find two special videos shared on social medias: Sabrina Sloan posted the clip of a sweet goodbye the company sung for Lin-Manuel before the last performance; Julius Thomas III posted a clip of a moment shared by the crew after the show, when they all sung “Happy Trails” to Miranda.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, his family and the cast of Hamilton were invited by the Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, for a lunch at La Fortaleza on January 22.
Check the photos of the day in our Gallery.
On January 24, Lin-Manuel Miranda visited the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, for a a private Q&A for the Musical Theater program with 80 lucky students.
Check the video below and the photos in our Gallery.
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The company is backing its global brand ambassador, Lin-Manuel Miranda, as he reprises his role of Alexander Hamilton in the limited-run of Hamilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico, all in support of the arts. Through a variety of ways, American Express continues to back small businesses in Puerto Rico, read more about it on their site.
On January 12, Miranda attended a meet and greet hosted by American Express.
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Over the weekend of the opening of Hamilton in Puerto Rico, Jimmy Fallon taped a special episode of his show dedicated to the island. While there, the host visited Lin-Manuel Miranda on-set and donned full costume to perform “The Story of Tonight” with the cast, with updated lyrics for The Tonight Show.
Check below the performance and the interview with Miranda, and check the photos in our Gallery. [EDIT: Added another photo and a new behind the scene video.]
Also, earlier Lin-Manuel appeared on Fallon’s Instagram account.
On January 11, Hamilton opened in Puerto Rico, with Lin-Manuel Miranda as its leading character once again. He was welcomed on stage with such entusiasm that the show stopped for almost a minute, as The New York Times describes:
It was Friday night in San Juan — the first performance, and also the opening night, of a 17-day run of “Hamilton” in Puerto Rico — and as soon as the crowd caught sight of the show’s 38-year-old creator and star, it drenched him in applause, forcing a momentary pause, the actors frozen mid-scene while the patrons unleashed a storm of appreciation born, of course, of fandom, but also of something deeper.
In Gallery you can find all the photos in HQ of the night.
Stage Production > 2019 – Hamilton: Puerto Rico > Opening Night (Centro de Bellas Artes)
Public Appearances > 2019 > 11 January – Press Conference after ‘Hamilton’ opening night at Centro de Bellas Artes in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Public Appearances > 2019 > 11 January – After Party of ‘Hamilton’ opening night at Popular Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico
[EDIT] On the official Instagram account of Hamilton, they shared a video recap of the night.
Under the cut there’re some videos: the speech Miranda gave after the show, the press conference he took part and a footage of the show itself.