SWINGING INTO HAMILTON

Everyone in Philly knows Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning “Hamilton” is in town. Nearly every block in Center City bears the banner; nearly every shop displays the signage.

And while most theater-lovers are familiar with its hip-hop patois, multicultural characterizations and celebrity performers like Miranda, Daveed Diggs and Philadelphia’s own Leslie Odom Jr., the touring cast at large has remained far less elusive.

Avery Sobczak, a Colorado native, performs one of the musical’s most crucial roles: the Swing — the actor and dancer covering all six men in the ensemble cast, including the characters of Charles Lee, Samuel Seabury, George Eacker and James Reynolds. Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr are the glittering front faces of Hamilton’s American Revolution, but you don’t get through history — or this show — without its supporting cast.

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