Some of the equipment for the Broadway smash musical traveled from as far away as Puerto Rico. Its 30-show run in Anchorage kicks off the new Broadway Alaska series.
Trailers are parked at the loading doors of the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts as setup for Hamilton continues in Anchorage on August 16, 2023.
“Hamilton,” the musical based on a biography of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, will begin its 3 1/2-week run in Anchorage on Thursday. The innovative hip-hop, rap and R&B-infused musical retelling of history by Lin-Manuel Miranda had a searing effect on popular culture after its premiere in 2015. It’s a big show for the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts — known widely as the PAC — which hasn’t seen a production of that scale since before the pandemic.
The “logistical ballet,” as Costello called it, began when the first four trailers departed Albuquerque, New Mexico, in July and headed to Tukwila, Washington. Those trailers were joined by seven more, which started out in Puerto Rico, were shipped to Jacksonville, Florida, and then traveled all the way across the country to Washington state. All of those rolled onto a ship and headed to Anchorage in mid-July.
Costello said during the downturn of the pandemic, Alaska Center for the Performing Arts received a planning grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust to help work on their organizational strategy.
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