Hamiltour Rehearsal

The Hamilton tour has posted pictures of their first day of rehearsal yesterday.

From the limited view out the window, it looks like NY - but I recall that they said they'd be rehearsing in SF. (Also isn't it a little early - previews begin in early March)

Would it be common or reasonable to start rehearsal in NY and move to SF after a couple of weeks and continue rehearsing there?

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1098402&dt=19

The rehearsals are definitely happening in NYC for now, as Michael Luwoye is in rehearsals while continuing to alternate at the Rodgers https://www.instagram.com/p/BPVYh_MhSIB/

They leave for San Fran on Feb. 26, then tech starts Feb 28. 1st preview March 5.

Does naming the tour Angelica imply they will be launching multiple US tour companies running simultaneously like wicked did for so many years?

PS Only 52 days til HamiltonSF...woo hoo!

broadwaysfguy said: "Does naming the tour Angelica imply they will be launching multiple US tour companies running simultaneously like wicked did for so many years?

PS Only 52 days til HamiltonSF...woo hoo!



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I'm confused by this. Did they name more than one Angelica?

Updated On: 1/17/17 at 08:00 PM

broadwaysfguy said: "Does naming the tour Angelica imply they will be launching multiple US tour companies running simultaneously like wicked did for so many years?"

I seem to recall they said they'll launch another tour in 2018, after London, and that it was to start in Seattle (which surprised me, being just up the coast from SF & LA). At some time after that, the Chicago sit-down was expected to become a third tour.

Updated On: 1/17/17 at 08:16 PM

Call_me_jorge said: "broadwaysfguy said: "Does naming the tour Angelica imply they will be launching multiple US tour companies running simultaneously like wicked did for so many years?

PS Only 52 days til HamiltonSF...woo hoo!"

I'm confused by this. Did they name more than one Angelica?"

No. Tours name their different productions for logistical purposes. Les Miz had the Valjean, Fantine, and Marius companies (I'm not sure what the 25th was, if anything). For some reason Jersey Boys called their Chicago company the Chicago Zephyr. Mormon had/has Latter-Day and Jumamosi.

Usually when they "name" a tour, it is part of the legal name of the touring entity - distinguishing it from any other production. For example, the 2nd National tour of Wicked I believe is "Wicked Munchkinland LP" and colloquially it is known as the Munchinkinland tour (versus the Emerald City tour, which closed several months back). I haven't seen anything with the legal name of the Angelica tour, so I can't confirm that is holding true for them.



So, if I had to guess, I would venture to say that Matilda probably at one point thought they would have two tours (or entertained the idea), leading to distinguishing it as the "Acrobat tour".



Lion King has the Gazelle company still out, but I am blanking on the other tour's name (Cheetah, maybe?)

Updated On: 1/18/17 at 02:18 AM

Well you could say Chicago is a bigger theatre town, but I think it's mostly, because Chicago gets tourists from all the surrounding states in the Midwest. So Hamilton Chicago is acting as the Midwest production right now.

Has it been confirmed whether or not Luwoye is slated to do all 8 performances a week? Does he have an alternate?