Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

The Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton refers to the ensemble that premiered Lin-Manuel Miranda's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical on Broadway in 2015, capturing the show's revolutionary blend of hip-hop, R&B and traditional musical theater on its original cast recording. Miranda himself starred as Alexander Hamilton, alongside Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr, Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton, Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler, and Daveed Diggs in a dual role as Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson.

The recording is distinctive for telling America's founding history through rap battles, R&B ballads and densely layered wordplay, a format that broke new ground for musical theater and brought hip-hop storytelling techniques to a mainstream Broadway audience. Songs like «Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)», «Satisfied» and «Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story» showcase the cast's ability to shift between rapid-fire narrative rap and soaring vocal performance.

The Original Broadway Cast Recording became a cultural phenomenon, earning a Grammy Award and introducing millions of listeners to the show before ever seeing it staged, cementing Hamilton's place as one of the most influential musicals of its era.