Hamilton’s original Broadway cast makes an iconic reunion at the Tony Awards 2025
On June 8, 2025, the original cast of Hamilton reunited on the 78th Tony Awards stage for the 10th anniversary of the hit show. Close to 30 original cast members came together for the iconic moment at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
The reunion featured Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Groff, and over two dozen original cast members performing a medley of show-stopping songs such as My Shot, The Schuyler Sisters, and The Room Where It Happens.
The cast appeared in all black attire instead of the original costumes for the musical. Following Hamilton's Broadway debut in 2015, the original cast gave their final performance together at the closing curtain call in July 2016.
Hamilton cast returns together at the Tony Awards 2025
A decade since it revolutionized Broadway, Hamilton mounted a mini-revolution of its own at the 2025 Tony Awards. In a historic reunion, original cast members, many of whom have since become Hollywood staples, took the stage to give a live performance tribute to the show that catapulted them to fame.
Supported by a live orchestra and a simple stage design that allowed the music to carry itself, the cast played fan favorites including My Shot, The Schuyler Sisters, You'll Be Back, The Room Where It Happens, and History Has Its Eyes on You.
Speaking to People about the reunion ahead of the event, Daveed Diggs said:
"In this business, you keep moving so much that you don't often take the time to recognize how special something is while you're in it. It was really special. Obviously, the response was special, but that group of people is pretty singular. I've never been in a room like it."
Notably, the musical bagged 11 awards at the 2016 Tony Awards and also won the Pulitzer Prize the same year.
What is Hamilton about?
Hamilton is a sung-and-rapped-through theatrical musical that charts the remarkable life of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of America. Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and based on Ron Chernow's biography, the musical restages U.S. history from a modern perspective, blending hip-hop, R&B, and old-school Broadway sounds to produce something uniquely original.
The musical is a true-life tale about Alexander Hamilton rise from an orphan immigrant to the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, his feud with Aaron Burr, and his legacy after an early death.
Told in a consciously diverse company and a genre-bending score, it expresses "America then" in the voices of "America now," as Miranda famously described (as reported by The Atlantic on September 29, 2015). It gained critical success rapidly, with sold-out productions, global productions, and even a premiere on Disney+ in 2020.
At the core of its magic was its first cast. Lin-Manuel Miranda portrayed Alexander, and Leslie Odom Jr. appeared as Aaron Burr. The other cast includes Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson, Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler, Phillipa Soo as Eliza, and Jonathan Groff as the gloriously unhinged King George III.
Most of them came back to the Tony Awards stage this year, though some sent video testimonials or were mentioned in the show's introduction.
Interested viewers can watch the performance on Paramount+.
