Hamilton at Majestic Theatre

This August, Hamilton will be performing in Majestic Theatre, the highly praised entertainment venue of San Antonio and the best possible venue for this spectacular performance. The acclaimed and multi-award winning performance travels to you to tell its smashing story from city to city all over the Country.

Debuting off Broadway in 2015, Hamilton was not instantly the Broadway smash that you will see today. Lin-Manuel Miranda has talked publicly about its origins, starting as a concept album in 2009, with Miranda sharing that he was “thrilled that the White House called me tonight, because I’m actually working on a hip-hop album. It's a concept album about the life of someone I think embodies hip-hop: treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton.” That singular performance elicited praise and a well-earned standing ovation from his crowd at the time, as well as former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, and directly led to Miranda’s production of the Hamilton musical we know today.

Due to his previous experience in musical theater, Lin-Manuel Miranda has also found influences from other popular theater pieces such as Les Misérables, which is based on a common theme that tells the history of a struggle, and succeeding from that struggle, instead of the usual musical theatre biases that tend to be very uplifting and happy. Hamilton is no different, being about the struggle of an orphaned immigrant from the Caribbean who climbed the ladder and became the first American Treasury Secretary. With the greatest respect to its source material, Hamilton shows us both the good and bad in Alexander Hamilton’s rise to power, by not only giving us a look into his personal life and struggle, but also his impact and effect in being able to significantly shape North America over that time.

With its story, the show continues to prove its relevance in popular culture and even on the international stage, confronting questions and topics that are highly relevant not only to the Country, but also around the world. Even the use of musical genres like hip hop, jazz, and R&B as the shows score has cemented its place in pop culture, making it one of the most exciting hit San Antonio musicals today.