The hit musical about America's founding fathers has just passed global sales of $1 billion, landing Miranda among the world’s top-earning celebrities. It not only pushed the show above $1 billion in global revenue, according to Forbes estimates, but it landed Miranda among the world’s highest-paid celebrities for the first time. Hamilton, which turns 5 this year, was on track this year to surpass another smash hit, The Book of Mormon, before Covid-19 forced Broadway’s theaters to close. At age 28, he received a Tony Award for scoring In the Heights, another hip-hop musical set in a Washington Heights neighborhood similar to that of his childhood. The multi-talented Miranda, 40, played a variety of roles in the creation of Hamilton, which he adapted from the best-selling 2004 Ron Chernow biography.

Source: Forbes June 08, 2020 10:30 UTC