The musical about the ten-dollar founding father without a father is finally coming to the Disney+ streaming service.
Originally scheduled for October of 2021, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s cultural juggernaut Hamilton, the American history rap musical you didn’t know you needed until it ear wormed its way into your very conscious, will now be available for streaming on July 3 2020, just in time to celebrate the world turned upside down.
The reason we don’t have to wait for it anymore is that Disney+ and Miranda likely don’t want to throw away their shot at maximizing the audience for the musical. The coronavirus pandemic has wrecked live theater, and across the country all future runs of the musical have been put on hold as people try to stay alive ’til this horror show is past.
It’s becoming more and more clear as we move through the pandemic that crowds won’t safely be allowed to gather in the greatest city in the world or any other place for that matter. That means that revenue for Hamilton, like all musical theater, is drip, dripping down the drain. With no guarantee for significant additional revenue due from live performances anytime soon, it makes sense that musical about an another immigrant comin’ up from the bottom will be available for streaming early.
Fans, of course, are celebrating how lucky they are to be alive right now.
For this to suceed, there is someone else we need…
Disney: “I know. #Hamilton.” pic.twitter.com/YwV3eLukhb
— alexis nedd (@alexisthenedd) May 12, 2020
Lin Manuel-Miranda releasing the Hamilton live film a year early is the kind of heroism we need in this pandemic
— Shannon 🩸🦷 (@TheStagmania) May 12, 2020
me: i’m done with my hamilton phase
lmm: [announce hamilton film release date]
king george iii: you’ll be back
me: pic.twitter.com/GdT4mGQRYe
— 𝐢𝐨𝐧 #DefendPressFreedom (@titowhizzer) May 12, 2020
me realising me also realising
the hamilton that i’ll probably
film comes be going back into
out july 3rd my hamilton phase pic.twitter.com/KBNIzDXUD7— ✨🧚🏻♀️ (@fxmeros) May 12, 2020
Best. News. Ever. Runs around house squealing and immediately presses play on soundtrack! #Hamilton IT'S HAPPENING!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! The wait will soon be over! July 3rd!! pic.twitter.com/w6IDpEaqS4
— Baby Yoda is my life coach. (@Tybaltlives) May 12, 2020
The original Broadway production of Hamilton streams July 3, 2020 at 9pm EST. It will surely blow us all away.