“Hamilton” stole the show at Monday night’s Grammy Awards, first when the cast performed its electrifying opening number and then when creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda rapped his acceptance speech for Best Musical Theater Album.
But before he created the megasmash “Hamilton,” Miranda was honing his rapping skills in his hip-hop improv group Freestyle Love Supreme, made up of him, Anthony Veneziale, Chris Jackson, Chris Sullivan, Bill Sherman, Arthur Lewis and Utkarsh Ambudkar, and overseen by “Hamilton” director Tommy Kail. The group started performing at the People’s Improv Theater and then landed a TV show on the small cable network Pivot in 2014, which ran for 10 episodes.
Now Seeso, the $3.99/month comedy streaming site, has picked up the “Freestyle Love Supreme” library episodes to premiere this spring “with newly edited episodes and brand new material starring the cast and friends,” according to Seeso’s Facebook page.
No debut date or further details are available yet, but with “Hamilton” sold out for the forseeable future, this may be the closest most mortals get to seeing Miranda perform.