It's the hottest ticket in New York and now it's coming to Australia.
Drowning in Tony award nominations, lauded by the Obamas, parodied by Amy Schumer and sold out until   January 2017, the hip-hop musical that follows the life of America's first treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, is set for our shores. 
Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller has told The New York Times the musical will be staged in Australia. Seller is working with the British producer Cameron Mackintosh on a Hamilton production to open in London in 2017, which will be followed by companies in Europe and Australia.
For Hamilton, which does not have special effects or even an elaborate set, casting is everything. Seller said his team would choose actors for the 10 lead roles for the road shows, as well as their understudies.
"Almost all of whom are likely to go to actors of colour, just as they do on Broadway," he said.
Hamilton creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda is of Puerto Rican descent and has used the show to celebrate America's multicultural make-up. He plans to take this approach to the tour.
"I think the London cast is also going to look like our cast looks now, it's going to be as diverse as our cast is now, but there are going to be even more opportunities for south-east Asian and Asian and communities of colour within Europe that should be represented on stage in that level of production," Miranda told Broadway World.