Leslie Odom Jr. Will Return to HAMILTON This Fall

With HAMILTON celebrating its 10th Anniversary on Broadway this year, original cast member Leslie Odom Jr. will return to the production this fall for a limited engagement. Winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, he will reprise his role as “Aaron Burr” beginning September 9th through November 23rd.

Following his breakout performance in the Tony Award winning musical, Odom Jr. has earned an Oscar nomination for his role as “Sam Cooke” in the 2020 film One Night in Miami… He has appeared in numerous film and television projects, including The Good Wife, Murder on the Orient Express, One Dollar, Only, Love in the Time of Corona, Central Park, Abbott Elementary, and The Many Saints of Newark. The acclaimed stage and screen actor recently returned to Broadway in 2023 with the Tony-nominated revival of PURLIE VICTORIOUS: A NON-CONFEDERATE ROMP THROUGH THE COTTON PATCH. 

With book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, and musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, HAMILTON explores the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and is inspired by the book “Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow.

In 2016, HAMILTON took home 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and received the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The production opened August 6, 2015, and continues to run, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.