Fil-Am actor Marc dela Cruz plays lead role in 'Hamilton' musical | Inquirer Entertainment

Fil-Am actor Marc dela Cruz plays lead role in ‘Hamilton’ musical

/ 12:57 PM January 23, 2019

Image: Instagram/@marc_delacruz

A Filipino-American theater actor just made history once more, bagging the lead role of the Tony Award-winning “Hamilton” musical.

Marc dela Cruz played the titular character of the Broadway musical, Alexander Hamilton, on Saturday, Jan. 19. Dela Cruz, who is of Filipino-Japanese descent and born in Hawaii, was also the first Asian-American actor to play the lead role.

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Actress Olivia Oguma expressed her pride about dela Cruz’s achievement and cheered for the “Japanese-Filipino Hamilton.”

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In dela Cruz’s Instagram post, he thanked the “Hamilton” cast, who he calls the “Ham fam.” He also thanked everyone who supported him in his first outings in the lead role.

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Dela Cruz joined the cast in November 2018, playing various roles in the musical such as Hamilton’s father-in-law Philip Schuyler, Hamilton’s eldest son, and even as his doctor, online magazine The FilAm reported.

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“I am over the moon to be a part of Hamilton,” dela Cruz told the magazine. “I’ve been a fan of Lin-Manuel Miranda since I saw ‘In the Heights’ and I always wondered at the possibility of being in something he created.”

The actor is the third Filipino-American to take part in the highly-popular musical in Broadway, joining other actors such as Karla Puno Garcia and Christina Glur.

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Meanwhile, another acclaimed Filipina singer-actress, Rachelle Ann Go, currently plays Hamilton’s wife, Eliza Schuyler, in the West End show in London. Katrina Hallare/JB

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