Christopher Jackson Returns to Hamilton for Sept. 8-Jan. 3 Run
christopher jackson is going back to Hamilton as George Washington from Sept. 8 through Jan. 3. The return puts another original cast member back on the Richard Rodgers Theatre stage after Leslie Odom Jr. helped drive the show back to the top of the box office last year.
Richard Rodgers Theatre Again
Jackson said he wanted to “touch the thing that I feel turned me into an artist in a way that nothing I’d ever done had done” and added, “I wanted it to touch this thing again.” He called the theater his favorite building in New York and said it was where some of the “greatest, most profound artistic moments of my life” happened.
The run also fits a commercial pattern. Odom’s return as Aaron Burr pushed the show to the top of the box-office charts again and brought in over $4 million in one week for the first time since 2018. Jackson is now the second original cast member to step back into the production, which gives the Broadway run another recognizable draw without changing the show’s structure.
George Washington Returns
Jackson earned a Tony Award nomination for playing George Washington opposite Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Alexander Hamilton, and he will sing “Right Hand Man,” “History Has Its Eyes on You” and “Yorktown” when he returns. He had been with the show since early 2015, then left in November 2016. That gap makes this run a reunion, not a routine replacement.
He said he was pulled back in by reconnecting with fellow actors during the 10th anniversary events last year, when the show’s original company gathered again. “There’s a feeling of being alive in a different kind of way in this show. The timing was right and, quite honestly, I needed that infusion and that challenge again,” he said.
Lessons From Last Year
Jackson has worked steadily since leaving the musical, with roles in Bull, And Just Like That, Hell’s Kitchen, Freestyle Love Supreme and the animated film Moana. He also said he no longer has to learn the building from scratch: “I just don’t have to look for where the bathrooms are. I know where all the bathrooms are. I know how to get into the stage door. I know where to park, how long it takes me to go from Point A to Point B.”
For Broadway, the move is straightforward: original cast returns still move tickets, and the last one proved it with a $4 million week. Jackson’s comeback gives Hamilton a familiar face, a familiar score and a limited window that should reward anyone who wants to see the original company energy again while it is onstage.
