Who controls the performance rights (grand rights) to Hamilton?

Who controls the performance rights (grand rights) to Hamilton? Miranda?

Does anyone know for sure or know of some way to find out? Or, does someone know if grand rights perhaps always and only reside with the composer (and not the production company or, say, the Richard Rodgers theater or something)?

Grand rights has to do with evoking the show itself. The classic expample is a man in a tuxedo stands on a bare stage and sings "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'. That's covered by an ASCAP license. But if he wears a cowboy hat and stands next to a bale of hay, then that's Grand Rights and requires a license form the music publisher and licensing agent for the show. First Class Rights are the sole provenance of the authors and original producers. After they have expoited those rights in terms of tours, sit-downs and foreign productions, they will most likely make secondary rights to the property avaialble (stock and amature). But in answer to your question, no licensing house has yet to announce that the have acquired he rights. R&H might be a good guess as they have In the Heights and therefore have a relationship with the author.

Updated On: 3/18/16 at 03:01 AM

i doubt anyone has the "grand rights," yet.