Succémusikalen ”Hamilton” slår rekord

Hamilton is a musical about Alexander Hamilton, with music, lyrics and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The show, inspired by the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton, by historian Ron Chernow, has achieved both critical acclaim and box office success. The musical made its Off-Broadway debut at The Public Theater in February 2015, where its engagement was sold out. The show transferred to Broadway in August 2015 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. On Broadway, it has received enthusiastic critical acclaim and unprecedented advance box office sales, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The Off-Broadway production of Hamilton won the 2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical as well as seven other Drama Desk Awards out of 14 total nominations, while the Broadway production has been nominated for a record-setting 16 Tony Awards.

The Antionette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, mer allmänt känd som Tony Award, är det årliga pris som utdelas för erkännande av amerikansk teater. Priset delas ut varje år, och har så gjorts sedan 1947. Tony Awards kan ses som teaterns svar på Oscar. Precis som vid Oscar-utdelningarna finns en rad olika kategorier, som nu uppgår till 26 stycken, samt ett flertal special-priser, att jämföra med de 11 som fanns 1947.