Hamilton the musical to go on first UK tour

While the West End production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical continues in London, a new cast will simultaneously tour the UK beginning in Manchester in November

For more than five years, the Victoria Palace theatre in London has been the only room where it happens" in the UK. But Lin-Manuel Miranda's smash-hit musical Hamilton, about US founding father Alexander Hamilton, will embark on a tour beginning in Manchester in November and continuing in Edinburgh next year, with further locations to be announced.

Cameron Mackintosh, producer of the tour, said he would be assembling a new company of actors to bring this great show to our leading cities", while the London production runs simultaneously. Visiting Scotland will be fitting, added Mackintosh, because the real story of Alexander Hamilton began in Ayrshire, where his father was born in the 1700s, before he moved to Nevis in the West Indies".