Hamilton at Orpheum Theatre San Francisco

This December, Hamilton will be playing in Orpheum Theatre, the highly praised theatre of San Francisco plus, the No.1 possible venue for this world-wide phenomenon performance. The critically acclaimed and multi-award winning show goes on to tell its incredible story from theatre to theatre all over the world.

It's off Broadway in 2015, The Musical was not the instant Broadway smash that you will see now. Lin-Manuel Miranda has spoken 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 one single 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 has led to Miranda’s production of the Hamilton musical we see today.

With his background in musical theater, Lin-Manuel Miranda has also found influences from other popular theater pieces such as Les Misérables, which continues a similar theme that tells the history of a struggle, and triumphing that struggle, as opposed to the traditional musical theatre biases that follow the trend of being very positive and happy. Similarly Hamilton, being about the struggle of an orphaned immigrant from the Caribbean who climbed the ladder and became the first American Treasury Secretary. With the utmost respect to its source material, the Musical 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 influence and lasting legacy in being able to powerfully shape the Nation over that time.

With its story, the show continues to prove its timelessness in American culture and even on the international stage, confronting topics and challenges that are very relevant not only to the Country, but also to the world. Even the use of musical genres like hip hop, jazz, and R&B as the main score has solidified its place in modern culture, making it one of the most exciting hit San Francisco musicals today.