Miranda was honest and candid with Sales about the challenges he faced bringing HAMILTON to the stage, sharing secrets about the show with fans, while paying tribute to the depth of talent in the Australian company.

The interview was conducted on the stage of HAMILTON at QPAC’s Lyric Theatre, where the cast have been playing to rapturous audiences in the last leg of their Australian season, which must close on April 23, 2023.

The interview will broadcast exclusively on ABC TV and ABC iview on Saturday, March 18 at 6pm, and will be repeated the following Tuesday, 21 March on ABC TV at 10pm.

The Australian company is led by Jason Arrow as Alexander Hamilton, Martha Berhane as Eliza Hamilton, Callan Purcell as Aaron Burr, Akina Edmonds as Angelica Schuyler, Matu Ngaropo as George Washington, Victory Ndukwe as Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, Sami Afuni as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison, Wern Mak as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton, Elandrah Eramiha as Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds and Brent Hill as King George.

They are joined by Claire Abaijah-Griffin, Kirrah Amosa, Kyla Bartholomeusz, Shewit Belay, Justin Bryant, Olivia Carniato, Celine Cleveland, Lachlan Dearing, Simon Fairweather, Alexander Ferguson, Keanu Gonzalez, Winston Hillyer, Indigo Hunt, Julian Kuo, Iosefa Laga’aia, Stefan Lagoulis, Ashton Lash, HaNy Lee, Zelia Rose, Emmy Saheki, Trevor Santos, Tainga Savage, Terrance Spencer, Dayton Tavares, Romina Villafranca and Zachary Webster completing the Australian company.

HAMILTON premiered on Broadway in August 2015 to wide critical and audience acclaim. The show has won Tony®, Grammy®, and Olivier Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, HAMILTON has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theatre – a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics and education.

With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, HAMILTON is based on Ron Chernow’s acclaimed biography.

The HAMILTON creative team previously collaborated on the 2008 Tony Award-winning Best Musical In the Heights.

Scenic design is by David Korins, costume design by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Howell Binkley, sound design by Nevin Steinberg, hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe.

A filmed version of the original Broadway cast was released on Disney+ on July 3, 2020.

The Australian production of HAMILTON is produced by Jeffrey Seller, Sander Jacobs, Jill Furman, The Public Theater and Michael Cassel AM.
Australian Production Assets

HAMILTON
Until April 23
Lyric Theatre, QPAC, Cnr Grey and Melbourne St, South Brisbane
qpac.com.au

In Myf’s joyous memoir, Time of My Life she shares funny, fabulous, and occasionally fraught tales about growing up in a small country town with an unhealthy Countdown obsession, working in Australian radio and her experiences on the much-loved music quiz show Spicks & Specks.

Music has always shaped Myf’s life, whether she was watching Daryl Braithwaite on TV on a Sunday night or listening to the crackle of the needle across vinyl as Agnetha and Anni-Frid took her from rural Victoria to Eurovision. Later her love of music (and the realisation that a professional pianist gig wasn’t part of the plan) would shape her career.

Like a sommelier matches food with wine, Myf matches hits with memory, and in the process reminds us all that, as Louis Armstrong said, “Music is life itself.”

This performance is Auslan interpreted, proudly supported by the Dalwood-Wylie Foundation.

Myf Warhurst – Time of my Life
Brisbane Powerhouse – Brisbane
9 October 2022
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

Born in Iceland, Kári has set his latest epic and compelling novel against the dramatic backdrop of his birthplace and celebrates one woman’s quest, taking a sidelined figure from the Viking tales and finally putting her where she belongs – at the centre of the story.

Kári Gíslason and Richard Fidler in Conversation
27 February 2022
Brisbane Powerhouse
www.brisbanepowerhouse.org

ABOUT HARROW SEASON 3
Our lovable, irritating, smart and flawed renegade pathologist Dr Daniel Harrow returns for a third season. After 20 episodes, many viewers thought they knew all there was to know about our conflicted, eponymous protagonist, a man at once morally upright with his own unshakeable code of conduct, yet who can also be secretive, sly, and has already killed twice.

But there is much more to discover – truths and half-truths that will pull our feelings one way then another as Harrow himself learns more about his family… and himself. In the end, of course, he will remain the maverick we love, but one with even more layers which we peel away week-by-week as he and the QIFM team solve intriguing episodic mysteries. There is one big question that kickstarts Season 3: Is that really Harrow’s son lying dead in his own morgue?

CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER & HEAD WRITER – STEPHEN M. IRWIN
Stephen is a screenwriter and novelist. His acclaimed supernatural novels The Dead Path and The Broken Ones were published internationally and are both in the process of adaptation to the screen. Stephen was creator and writer of Australian crime drama series Secrets & Lies (made originally for Network Ten and remade in the USA for ABC). He wrote the feature Australia Day (Foxtel), miniseries Wake in Fright (NetworkTen), was head writer on Tidelands (Netflix), and is co-creator and head writer of forensic crime drama Harrow which is now filming its third season.

CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER & HEAD WRITER – LEIGH McGRATH
Leigh McGrath is an AACTA nominated Producer and Writer who co-created Harrow with Stephen M Irwin, along with the hit Netflix series, Tidelands. Before this, Leigh produced the crime thriller Secrets & Lies for Network Ten; The Strange Calls for ABC2; and the feature film Australia Day, starring Bryan Brown. He also produced Athelstan’s Journal based on the hit US drama series Vikings. Leigh has worked extensively internationally, where he wrote and script produced drama series in Europe and the UK, including ITV’s long-running police drama series The Bill. He also worked for the BBC on variety of drama productions, including The Lost Christmas with Eddie Izzard, M.I. High, Roy and Me & My Monsters. Before this, Leigh was a scriptwriter and script producer on numerous Australian drama series including Home & Away, Out of the Blue and Winners & Losers.

In Conversation with Leigh McGrath and Stephen M Irwin
13 February 2020
GOMA, Brisbane
www.qagoma.qld.gov.au