Since May 2016, and after an unscripted moment with the vice president-elect of the United States, Hamilton is sold out through January 2017. The musical, which debuted at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in August 2015, remains the hottest ticket on Broadway - the production most recently broke $3.2 million in sales during the week of Thanksgiving alone. 12 on Billboard’s album charts was the highest for a cast album debut since 1963. The Hamilton soundtrack, which was released last September, also on Atlantic Records, has sold more than two million albums and won a Grammy for best musical theater album.
In the time since Elizondo and Morales made contact about a collaboration for Miranda’s mixtape, Hamilton has exploded as both a theatrical and cultural sensation. Fannie Lou Hamer’s 2015 ‘Songs My Mother Taught Me’.“It’s edgy and contemporary at the same time. Dre and Eminem’s 1999 Forgot About Dre, 50 Cent’s 2003 In Da Club and Eminem’s 2000 The Real Slim Shady. “The track wasn’t beholden to the Broadway cast recording,” said Elizondo from his Los Angeles office. It’s inspired by the groundbreaking musical, but isn’t derivative. 2), setting the standard and attitude of the project. With live cast recordings and a prerecorded verse from Black Thought, longtime frontman of The Roots, Elizondo worked up a track that would eventually become the first song on what is now Hamilton the Mixtape (which drops Dec. One such rough mix was titled My Shot - its name and theme are taken from an original song in the musical and centers on Manuel’s character, Alexander Hamilton, not wasting his chance to seize a life-altering opportunity. The conversation centered on an upcoming project related to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s then-new Broadway musical, Hamilton.Įlizondo, a longtime friend of Miranda’s who’d seen the musical when it was off-Broadway, was tasked with submitting tracks for consideration for what Miranda was calling The Hamilton Mixtape, a music project separate from the original Broadway cast album, Hamilton, which was released in September 2015 and is a worldwide phenomenon. A year and a half ago, longtime Aftermath Entertainment music producer Mike Elizondo was contacted by Atlantic Records vice president of artist and repertoire, Rigo “Riggs” Morales.
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