Want to catch up on who is eligible in the meantime? There was “no way” that Donald Trump was going to become the Republican nominee, let alone the president of the United States. Who will earn a nomination? Lin Manuel-Miranda’s groundbreaking musical about the nation’s first United States Treasury Secretary has won 11 Tonys, a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy award. Despite the top-to-bottom strength of the cast, as was true the first time I saw Hamilton, the show-stealer is the actor playing George III, the lone white guy among the principals.

And the show itself feels like one of the most glorious monuments to an American ever built. No charge. His widow, Eliza, has the show’s final words, recalling the 50 years she lived without him, spent building an orphanage and funding the Washington Monument. View the full list of potential nominees! Yet New York Post theater columnist Michael Riedel was skeptical about the long-term prospects of what he derided as “the rap musical.” People don’t know this, but Michael is 110 years old and would have preferred the show to be more like Gypsy. Still, Hamilton is not to all tastes. "Would he close down the oil industry?" It probably won’t change your life. Everything's coming up Tonys! The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination at its executive business meeting on Thursday in a 12-0 vote with no Democrats present. Euan Morton is hilarious as he tries to filter his pleading through his kingly condescension with the colonial upstarts. SLAVE PLAY Becomes Most Tony-Nominated Play Ever. Trump asked. Breakers towers over Jeter and, with his large shaved head, he exudes a sort of professorial smugness instead of the haunted and guilty quality that Odom brought to the role, famously played in the chilly shadow of Burr’s shocking announcement at the top of the show, “And me, I’m the damn fool that shot him.” Tamar Greene, who plays Washington, is a giant, which is a fittingly literal embodiment of the general’s place in history, whereas the actor playing Jefferson, who is amusingly named James Monroe Iglehart, is jovial, sly, and rotund, providing the ever-earnest Hamilton with an excellent foil as the two engage in rap debates about national debt and whether to aid France. What’s changed in five years? (A recent check on the Ticketmaster site revealed orchestra tickets changing hands for $233.) What's New on BroadwayHD for October 2020? For a while, the battleground states have tended to be uniformly blue, except for polls conducted by the Trafalgar Group. At 12pm ET today, October 15, James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin, Hamilton) will announce the 74th Annual Tony Awards nominations. Betty Buckley Demands Trump Stops Using 'Memory' at Rallies- 'Your Presidency is the Very Antithesis of Art', Actors' Equity Comments On SAG-AFTRA Members Condemning the Union's Raiding of Equity Employers, Photos/Video: First Look at the Russian Premiere of CHESS The Musical.