--- title: Barack Obama Takes Daughters to See Hamilton on Broadway description: President Obama took his daughters Malia and Sasha to a performance of the sold-out musical Hamilton during a family trip to New York Saturday. canonical: https://time.com/3963858/barack-obama-hamilton-broadway/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-19T20:25:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T04:18:33.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Obama Takes Daughters to See "Hamilton" on Broadway og:description: It's a little easier to get tickets for a sold-out show when you're president. og:url: https://time.com/3963858/barack-obama-hamilton-broadway/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26357e12705bf764/69885b84e53aba7be54deabc/obama-hamilton.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Secret Service officers stand on the awning of the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York, Saturday, July 18, 2015, as President Barack Obama, daughters Sasha and Malia, his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, her husband Konrad Ng, and friends attend a performance of og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obama Takes Daughters to See "Hamilton" on Broadway twitter:description: It's a little easier to get tickets for a sold-out show when you're president. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt26357e12705bf764/69885b84e53aba7be54deabc/obama-hamilton.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Obama Takes Daughters to See _Hamilton_ on Broadway  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:18 AM UTCPublished: Jul 19, 2015 8:25 PM UTC  Secret Service officers stand on the awning of the Richard Rodgers Theatre as President Barack Obama, daughters Sasha and Malia, his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, her husband Konrad Ng and friends attend a performance of Hamilton in New York, on July 18, 2015,. Secret Service officers stand on the awning of the Richard Rodgers Theatre as President Barack Obama, daughters Sasha and Malia, his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, her husband Konrad Ng and friends attend a performance of Hamilton in New York, on July 18, 2015,.Andrew Harnik—AP  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:18 AM UTCPublished: Jul 19, 2015 8:25 PM UTC **Correction appended** Nabbing hard-to-get Broadway tickets is a little easier when you’re president. President Obama took his daughters Malia and Sasha to a performance of the sold-out musical _Hamilton_ during a family trip to New York Saturday. The show, which tells the story of Alexander Hamilton to a hip-hop score, has received rave reviews. But even the president’s appearance wasn’t enough to get Lin-Manuel Miranda, the show’s writer and star, on stage on his previously scheduled off day. An understudy performed instead. Still, Miranda says it was great to have Obama attend the performance. “It was a real kick to see the first three presidents of the United States onstage while sitting with the current president,” he [told The New York _Times_](http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/18/starring-on-broadway-obama-and-alexander-hamilton/?%5Fr=0). “He’s in that line.” > [](https://twitter.com/Lin%5FManuel/status/622524461208702976) [Read the full story at _Entertainment Weekly_.](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/19/barack-obama-saw-hamilton?hootPostID=5249c6a2022b956495cf9556a2d467b3) **Correction**: The original version of this story misstated Lin-Manuel Miranda’s role in _Hamilton_. 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