Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jimmy Fallon revive Hamilton with classroom instruments, as filmed production heads back to cinemas

Lin-Manuel Miranda marked Hamilton’s tenth Broadway anniversary with a return to The Tonight Show, where he, host Jimmy Fallon and house band The Roots performed a jaunty classroom instruments medley. The segment folded “Alexander Hamilton” and “My Shot” into a compact blast of kazoos, triangles and toy keyboards, delivered in period costume for good measure.

During his chat with Fallon, Miranda reflected on the show’s decade on Broadway and shared a crowd-pleasing bit of trivia. He recalled the night Prince attended Hamilton, only for Miranda to be absent because he was deejaying a friend’s wedding, a scheduling clash he now calls the “FOMO of my life”.

Miranda also confirmed that the filmed version of Hamilton will return to movie theaters this year. The live capture, shot at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 2016 with most of the original Broadway cast, will screen in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico from 5 September, in the United Kingdom and Ireland from 26 September, and in Australia and New Zealand from 13 November. The theatrical presentation adds “Reuniting the Revolution”, a new prologue featuring fresh interviews with the original company. Tickets are on sale now.

The medley follows a wave of anniversary moments for the juggernaut musical. In June, original cast members reunited at the Tony Awards for a multiple song performance that traced the show’s greatest hits and underlined its staying power.

Hamilton opened on Broadway on 6 August 2015 and has since won 11 Tony Awards alongside the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a Grammy Award and an Olivier Award. A filmed version first debuted on Disney Plus in July 2020, after plans for an earlier theatrical rollout were disrupted, and it has remained a gateway for new audiences discovering the production at home. The return to cinemas gives fans a chance to experience the stage capture on the big screen, with added context from the new prologue.

For those who missed the Tonight Show appearance, NBC has posted the classroom instruments clip and the full interview online. Both segments double as a teaser for the cinematic return, and as a brisk reminder of why Hamiltonbecame a cultural landmark in the first place.