On the red carpet at Hamilton’s Sydney premiere

The great and the good at turn out to see the musical that has taken the world by storm but which has been shuttered by the pandemic for the last 13 months.

Andrew BurkeAFR Weekend editor

Mar 28, 2021 – 12.08pm

Email LinkedIn Twitter Facebook

Subscribe to gift this article

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.

Subscribe now

Already a subscriber?

“Look around, look around, at how lucky we are to be alive right now.”

That line from Eliza Hamilton might easily have applied to the great and the good able to snare quite possibly the hottest ticket in global theatre, the grand opening night of the local production of Hamilton, the musical that has taken the world by storm but which has been shuttered by the pandemic for the last 13 months.

Andrew Burke is the editor of AFR Weekend, based in the Sydney newsroom. He has worked at the Financial Times in London, the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and reported from across Asia and the Middle East.