Lin-Manuel Miranda Leaving 'Hamilton'—But Will Reprise Role 'For the Rest of My Life'
Update (6/16, 10:30 a.m.): Four days after Hamilton won 11 Tony Awards, 36-year-old reator/writer/Pulitzer winner Lin-Manuel Miranda has officially announced that he'll step down from his starring role as Alexander Hamilton. Miranda's final performance—not counting future drop-ins—is July 9. Three of the Hamilton Tonys went straight to him; his debut show, In the Heights, netted him two. (That one's becoming a movie soon.)
Lin-Manuel Miranda leaving Hamilton isn't all sad. (Although it'll be amplified if his other cast mates—like Tony winners Leslie Odom, Jr., Daveed Diggs and Renée Elise Goldsberry—also hit the road soon.) We'll always have the Miranda-starring cast album, and Washington Post theater critic Peter Marks reported a bunch more exciting developments from a breakfast with Miranda on Thursday:
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