NEW YORK, May 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM
announced today that it will present an exclusive Town Hall special
with the Tony Award® nominated cast and creative team of the
Broadway musical HAMILTON. The Q&A session, hosted
by Anderson Cooper, will air on
SiriusXM's On Broadway channel. HAMILTON was recently
nominated for a record breaking 16 Tony Award® nominations
including Best Musical.
The Town Hall will take place onstage at the Richard Rodgers
Theatre on Monday, May 16, and will
feature HAMILTON Tony Award ® nominees: Howell Binkley,
Andy Blankenbuehler, Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson, Thomas Kail, David Korins, Alex Lacamoire, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Phillipa Soo and Paul
Tazewell.
"We are thrilled to give our national audience access to
HAMILTON, and better yet from the very Broadway stage where
they are making history," said Scott
Greenstein, President and Chief Content Officer,
SiriusXM. "Having these nominees take questions from
Anderson Cooper will lead to a
lively, insightful discussion about this ground breaking show and
the great history behind the show itself, and how it is a mirror to
today's society and issues."
SiriusXM's HAMILTON Town Hall will premiere on Friday, May 20 at 6:00 pm
ET and PT on SiriusXM's On Broadway via satellite on channel
72 and through the SiriusXM app on smartphones and other connected
devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com. The special performance
will also be made available on inactive SiriusXM radios as part of
SiriusXM's free listening preview program, which will begin
May 18 and run through June
1. (Some older Sirius satellite radios may not be capable of
receiving the free listening preview channels.)
The Town Hall will also feature music from the HAMILTON
Original Broadway Cast Recording, the 2016 Grammy Award Winning
Best Musical Theatre Album.
HAMILTON is the story of America's Founding Father
Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant
from the West Indies who became George
Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and
was the new nation's first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a
score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway,
HAMILTON is the story of America then, as told by America
now.
SiriusXM's HAMILTON Town Hall is part of SiriusXM's Town Hall
series, featuring iconic entertainers and figures sitting down with
studio audiences of SiriusXM listeners. Previous SiriusXM Town Hall
specials have featured Bruce
Springsteen, Billy Crystal,
Quentin Tarantino, Carol Burnett, Tom
Petty, Willie Nelson, KISS,
Coldplay, Ringo Starr, Adele,
Elton John, Taylor Swift, Hugh
Jackman, Cardinal Timothy
Dolan, Roger Waters, the
surviving members of Nirvana, Gregg
Allman, Usher and Tony
Hawk.
For more information, please visit www.siriusxm.com.
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