Tony winner Lin-Manuel Miranda has been immortalized!
In celebration of Hamilton’s 10th anniversary, Madame Tussauds New York has cast Miranda in wax, dressed in costume as Alexander Hamilton. The figure debuted on stage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre August 5, with Jimmy Fallon emceeing the reveal.
"Honestly, this is very strange," Miranda laughed, speaking to the press at the reveal. "Thank you all for coming to the Richard Rodgers, the stage I've called home since my first Broadway show. Every show I've rehearsed for Broadway was at the new 42nd Street Studios, which is across the street from Madame Tussauds, so every time you go to make something new, you see Sam Jackson out on the street, you see The Rock out on the street, while we're trying to make stuff. It feels very surreal to join the ranks, and maybe one day be out on the street."
Miranda described the process of sitting for the wax figure as "the most Tim Burton-esque process" possible. "It's a full day of head scans and eye scans, there's a lady who has a box full of eyeballs... she's flipping through the eyeballs looking for the one that most closely resembles your eyeball. And I did all of this about a year ago. You pose for it a year in advance, and I've been waiting to see which one she picked! It's very Coraline."
Miranda's Alexander Hamilton figure will soon be on display at Madame Tussauds New York, where it will appear alongside figures in the On Broadway exhibit, including Grizabella from Cats, Christine and The Phantom from The Phantom of the Opera, and more.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jimmy Fallon
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jimmy Fallon
Lin-Manuel Miranda
