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With its 10th anniversary coming up next month, Hamilton is fast approaching "New York Institution" status. To welcome the Pulitzer-winning musical into that rarefied group, the New York Yankees have created a special edition of its legendary baseball cap to be handed out at its August 25 game. The first 10,000 attendees (!) to arrive at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx will receive the stylish headpiece, which features both the Yankees’ insignia and Hamilton’s star-shaped logo.
The special evening will also include original cast members Christopher Jackson and Tony winner Renée Elise Goldsberry performing the national anthem and throwing the game’s first pitch, respectively. Current cast members Stephanie Umoh, Morgan Anita Wood, and Cherry Torres will then perform “God Bless America” during the seventh inning stretch.
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Tickets for the Monday, August 25 game—against the Washington Nationals, appropriate for a story about the Founding Fathers—start at just $13.
Fans who want to ensure they get a cap can buy a special ticket guaranteeing them one, currently starting at $53. The extra price goes even farther, with $10 from each of those tickets going to Beyond the Stage Door, a nonprofit educational program for undergraduate students or mid-career transitioning professionals from diverse backgrounds looking to get into general, company and stage management.
This is just one of the ways Hamilton is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda yesterday announced that its official anniversary performance, on August 6, will serve as a fundraiser for the Immigrants: We Get the Job Done Coalition. The invite-only performance, whose audience will comprise previous company members, celebrity friends and sweepstake winners, is expected to raise around $3 million for the group of 14 nonprofits.
The production also recently collaborated with graphic design platform Canva for a fan art contest, with the winning creation to be used in both the show’s August Playbill cover, as well as inside each August issue of the theater magazine. The winner will be selected from a group of 10 finalists (out of over 3,000) on August 1.
Hamilton, based on Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton, premiered at the Public Theater off-Broadway on February 17, 2015. An instant blockbuster, it quickly moved uptown, opening on Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theater, where it continues to play, on August 6 of that year. It went on to win 11 of its record-breaking 16 Tony nominations, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.