The production is an important test for “Hamilton,” which already has six English-language productions running in North America, Britain and Australia, and is hoping to follow Germany with a Spanish version in Madrid and Mexico City.

24 and the opening is scheduled to take place Oct. The German-speaking cast - most of them actors of color, reflecting the show’s defining decision to retell America’s revolutionary origins with the voices of today’s diverse society - is now in the final days of rehearsal previews begin Sept. So imagine the challenge, then, of adapting the story of America’s first treasury secretary for a German-speaking audience - preserving the rhythm, the sound, and the sensibility of the original musical while translating its dense libretto into a language characterized by multisyllabic compound nouns and sentences that often end with verbs, and all in a society that has minimal familiarity with the show’s subject matter.įor the last four years - a timeline prolonged, like so many others, by the coronavirus pandemic - a team of translators has been working with the “Hamilton” creators to develop a German version, the first production of the juggernaut musical in a language other than English. Forty-seven songs more than 20,000 words fast-paced lyrics, abundant wordplay, complex rhyming patterns, plus allusions not only to hip-hop and musical theater but also to arcane aspects of early American history.

HAMBURG, Germany - “Hamilton” is a mouthful, even in English.

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