Like Broadway, It’s an evening of live entertainment as Hamilton is hip-hopping its way to Melbourne.

The hip-hop worldwide US music blockbuster Hamilton has brought joy to Melbourne as July 4th. Of July, after having wrapped its Sydney season last year.

The show was performed on a sunny autumn evening by a plethora of entertainers, celebrities, and politicians. The 36-strong performers didn’t have a drop of gas on Thursday night’s Her Majesty’s Theatre premiere.

There is no one more proud of Hamilton’s Australian show and its skilled dancers and singers than the first Broadway creator who directed Hamilton, Jeffery Seller, who was present at the curtain call shortly after the three-hour epic as the audience was still being clapped out.

“How fortunate do we feel?” he asked the huge crowd and noted Melbourne is a bit similar to Broadway with not just one but three live show productions available, which included Moulin Rouge, Harry Potter, and the Cursed Child, and Hamilton.

He also mentioned the name of Sammy J, comedian, writer, and host of the morning talk show that airs on ABC Radio Melbourne.

Sammy J and Jeffery Seller joined a cast of A-listers for the Melbourne premiere of Hamilton. Photo: Instagram/Sammy J

Why? Serendipity.

Sammy J performed at the same Melbourne International Comedy Festival as Lin-Manuel Miranda, the American rapper who composed the score and script and starred as the main character and the director Thomas Kail, in the original production of Hamilton at Broadway.

It was 2006, and it was at Her Majesty’s Theatre. The two presented the show Freestyle Love Supreme, and Sammy J won the festival’s top prize for the most newcomer for his show, Sammy J’s 55-Minute National Tour.

The remainder is … Oh … American history in collaborating to make Hamilton which is a fast-paced account of the founding of Alexander Hamilton’s father. Alexander Hamilton and his revolutionary journey.

“It was an amazing evening,” said Melbourne comedian Sammy J, who was beaming from ear to ear when greeted with a smile by the legendary Broadway legend.

Will the Australian production bring in big awards? The Broadway show received a record-breaking 16 nominations and won 11 awards including best musical. Photo: Daniel Boud

Melbourne is back from two years of absence.

In the front of the circle of dress in the dress circle was Sally Capp, Melbourne’s Lord Mayor and self-described “number-one champion” for Melbourne. She has been working tirelessly with a team of dedicated people to keep the city in good shape in the face of COVID and lockdowns and now, to watch it rekindle in the way only the capital city of entertainment of Australia could do.

In an interview with The New Daily during the show’s intermission, and possibly for the whole audience, she noted that the show was “an absolute pleasure to watch extraordinary artists show off their skills.”

“Melbourne could be the city that had the longest lockdown days. However, now we’re the city that hosts the most happenings!

“We’re extremely happy with the theater scene in Melbourne It’s an incredible feat to have three highly regarded shows running simultaneously.”

Mayor Capp stated that the group of the City of Melbourne had worked tirelessly to bring energy back to Melbourne’s city.

“We are not doing this on our own. We have a remarkable group of innovative and talented people in Melbourne that range from traders and business owners to entrepreneurs and creatives,” she declared in the streets surrounding the precinct of the theatre were brimming with diners enjoying al fresco dining, and many were enticed back to the CBD by the cheapest parking in Melbourne.

Why is it that there’s something unique about Hamilton that gives Hamilton its international appeal?

Hamilton was inspired by the biography written in 2004 about Alexander Hamilton by historian Ron Chernow is now the most popular musical in North America (and London, Germany, and currently Australia) Not just for its sheer theatrical brilliance but also as a must-see show for teachers and students in the field of American history.

Official Broadway synopsis is: “Hamilton is the story of a flimsy Founding Father who is determined to leave his mark on a new nation just as the man he is.

“From the orphaned child of a bastard to Washington’s right-hand person Rebel to the hero of war and a husband with a heart of gold which was the subject of the nation’s first sex scandal, and finally the Treasury chief who made the world’s distrust belie that there was a solid foundation for America’s economy. American economy.

“George Washington,” Eliza Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson Hamilton’s lifelong friend/foil Aaron Burr all make their marks in this stunning new musical exploration of a renowned political mastermind.”

A few might argue that watching an episode about the origins of America or the Revolution and the struggle against slavery may not be a hit with an international public.

The Australian cast of Hamilton on the streets of Melbourne. Photo: Sam Bisso

It is true because of a variety of reasons.

Miranda said to The New York Times that although those who founded the nation were white, the leading roles are played by people of color.

“This is a tale about America that was told in the past and is being told by America in the present. We want to erase any gap. Our story should be described as our country does.

“Then We found that we had the perfect individuals to embody these qualities. I think it’s a effective statement without needing to be a declaration,” claims the Encanto director and songwriter of tick the tick… BOOM!.

What Miranda does is weave this story as an accessible force for everyone by utilizing the beats of hip-hop soul, rap, and hip-hop to tell the story of the birth of America in the early 1700s.

“How Hamilton achieves this then-is-now effect can be historical, at least in the progress-challenged spectrum of musicals in the American musical.” notes Ben Brantly in one of the initial reviews for 2015 the New York Times.

“In the telling of the history of Hamilton as well as the conferences that comprise George Washington, Aaron Burr, and Thomas Jefferson – via rap and R&B ballads. This sung-through production is similar to what you’d get if you switched the radio on to a famous pop station.

“What’s being heard in the American stage as well as what’s heard on radio and in clubs isn’t there for more than six decades.”

• In a way, the songs could include Kanye, Drake, or Beyonce.
• Or any talent of any kind that can be found in Australia.

To the mayor Capp: “I loved … seeing how many actors were Australian. It showed the diversity of homegrown talent we’re so fortunate to have.