New cast members announced for Hamilton

Producer Jeffrey Seller has today announced that two-time Tony Award nominee Brandon Victor Dixon will join the cast of Hamilton in the role of Aaron Burr, alongside Lexi Lawson in the role of Eliza Hamilton. As previously announced, Javier Muñoz will take over the title role of Alexander Hamilton, with Michael Luwoye as his alternate, on 11 July 2016.

It was previously confirmed that Lin-Manuel Miranda - star and creator of the eleven-time Tony-winning hit musical - will play his final performance on 9 July 2016.

Brandon Victor Dixon, who is currently starring in the Tony nominated new musical Shuffle Along at the Music Box Theatre, will join the show in mid-August, with an exact date to be announced. He was nominated last season for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor and was previously nominated for the same award for the original production of The Color Purple. His other Broadway credits include Motown the Musical and The Scottsboro Boys which he also starred in in London, for which he received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical.

Lexi Lawson has previously performed in Lin-Manuel Miranda's In The Heights in the first National tour, as well as the role of Mimi in RENT.

They will join the principal cast of Hamilton which as of 11 July 2016 will also include Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler), Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Daveed Diggs (Marquis De Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Anthony Ramos (John Laurens/Phillip Hamilton), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds) and Rory O'Malley (King George).

The Broadway production of Hamilton officially opened on 6 August 2015 to excellent reviews, following previews from 13 July, and is currently booking through to 21 May 2017.

Hamilton features a book, music, and lyrics by Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda, and is inspired by the book "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow.

Synopsis: "Hamilton is a new musical about the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America: Alexander Hamilton. From bastard orphan to Washington's right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country's first sex scandal to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, Hamilton is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelong Hamilton friend and foe, Aaron Burr, all attend this revolutionary tale of America's fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we've become."

Hamilton is directed by Thomas Kail, with music direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, scenic design by David Korins, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Howell Binkley, and sound design by Nevin Steinberg. It is produced on Broadway by The Public Theater, Jeffrey Seller, Sander Jacobs and Jill Furman.

- by Dom O'Hanlon