The musical behemoth is back in D.C. after four years that changed, well, everything — including how we see it.
of its administrative staff that year and projected a $23 million budget shortfall. And some Foggy Bottom and Georgetown restaurants and bars, which in the pre-covid era feasted off scrappy and hungry Kennedy Center patrons, got battered.“With all of the activities and the people who come to see ‘Hamilton,’ it benefits every aspect,” said Jeffrey Finn, the Kennedy Center’s vice president and executive producer of theater.
It certainly lifted Circa’s. The bistro, which thrives on the lanyard-wearing happy hour crowd, sits across the street from the Kennedy Center’s Metro shuttle stop. During the 2018 “Hamilton” season, that location powered it to its highest sales year in its 11-year history. “After the show, the shuttle would drop off, and it was always a bear-down-the-hatches kind of response of ‘just get ready for this rush of people,’” said Maggie O’Connor, an assistant general manager at the time and now a brand manager for Circa’s parent company.Those kinds of rushes require extra preparation in a time of diminished restaurant personnel.
“It’s hard to capture the feel of pre-pandemic days,” O’Connor said. “ … We’re getting back to it, but it’s not the same vibe in the restaurant as before.”The nation’s political and cultural landscapes have also transformed, noted Adam Rothman, a professor of U.S. history at Georgetown, and that’s transformed the context for “Hamilton.” When the Lin-Manuel Miranda creation
, a race-bending rap musical touting that immigrants “get the job done,” it was an “expression of the kind of multicultural exuberance of the Obama era, this sense of possibility of a kind of post-racial America,” Rothman said.
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