Have a revolutionary experience with the Hamilton London review

Hamilton is one of the most talked-about musicals in recent years, and it made its way to London's West End in 2017 and has been running successfully at Victoria Palace Theatre ever since. Lin-Manuel Miranda's masterful masterpiece has charmed audiences all over the world, and its London production is no exception. Hamilton brings to life the story of one of America's most prominent Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, through a captivating blend of rap, hip-hop and conventional musical theatre. Hamilton's London reviews speak nothing but praises and the same reflects in the plethora of Olivier awards and other awards the musical has bagged.

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Hamilton London Review: The Cast, Set, Costumes & the Soundtrack

Hamilton London Review: What The Critics Think

"Whether or not ‘Hamilton’ is the best musical of our generation – it clearly is, but whatever – it’s been a hit for the only reason anything is a hit: because it is a great work of entertainment."
— Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out

"...it’s a rollercoaster of a show in which a bare-headed, largely non-white cast capture the fervour and excitement of revolution while reminding us how much America’s identity was shaped by a buccaneering immigrant, Alexander Hamilton."
— Michael Billington, The Guardian

"Miranda’s portrait of a ‘young, scrappy and hungry’ immigrant’s astonishing rise is, explicitly, a story of America’s abundant possibilities. It pictures the country’s Founding Fathers not as frozen marble monuments but as spirited, fallible and crafty, while making 18th-century politics seem as explosively immediate as a rap battle."
— Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard

"Lin-Manuel Miranda’s awe-inspiring skyscraper of a modern musical, towering above all others, is back. It so happens that London has pipped New York to the post in restoring it to the repertoire of must-sees."
— Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph UK

"What sets Hamilton apart from its competitors is the soundtrack. Heavy with Hip-hop and musical rap, Miranda’s score achieves magical fusion with any genre it touches. The result is unmistakably musical theatre, just not as you’ve known it. There’s many a show that would sell its proverbial granny to achieve just one of Hamilton’s rousing themes, or touching harmonies."
— WJ Quinn, The Quinntessential Review

"Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda astonishingly modernises the story of the immigrant Hamilton, a bastard by birth who revolutionised the US constitution, and created the country’s first banking system. Hamilton’s life is told almost exclusively in rap (it seems bonkers, right?), but it creates a fury of energy on stage – fuelled by the bopping heads in the audience, like we’re at an Eminem gig – like no show has before."
— Adam Bloodworth, Metro

"This interpretation is also an ideal first experience for “Hamilton” virgins and for anyone unaccustomed to the rap and hip-hop that make up much of Mr. Miranda’s score, which sounds richer every time I hear it. The cast, a multiethnic ensemble as it is in all “Hamilton” productions, enunciates more precisely than their American counterparts."
— Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"They may wear knee breeches and period costumes, but Hamilton and his band of brothers – the Marquis de Lafayette, John Laurens, and Hercules Mulligan – are played by performers of colour (the cast are of diverse ethnic backgrounds) and they rap in exuberant volleys of assonance and street-smart word-play, syncopated riffs and sprung rhythm (“Lock up ya daughters and horses, of course/It’s hard to have intercourse over four sets of corsets”). The idiom takes you right into the fiery metabolism and word-drunk wit of these youthful rebels, desperate to seize and mould a nascent nation."
— Paul Taylor, Independent