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Take A Look At This Year's Extraordinary Broadway Season

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- From groundbreaking musicals to classic plays, it's been an extraordinary Broadway season.

The highly anticipated "Hamilton" moved uptown to the Richard Rodgers Theatre in July and took Broadway by storm, CBS2's Dave Carlin reported. Lin-Manuel Miranda is the creator and stars as founding father Alexander Hamilton.

And while the show is still the hottest ticket in town, fans of singer songwriters Gloria and Emilio Estefan are also looking forward to seeing their life story in the new musical "On Your Feet."

Meanwhile, they're still rockin' over at the Winter Garden Theatre where class is in session for Andrew Llloyd Webber's "School of Rock."

Last fall's "Spring Awakening" revival included a cast of American sign language actors and was the first Broadway show to feature an actor who uses a wheelchair in real life.

Star Trek's George Takei's life story hit Broadway in "Allegiance." Five-time Tony nominee Danny Burstein leads the cast of "Fiddler on the Roof."
And Tony winners Laura Benanti and Jane Krakowski are back on Broadway in the revival of, "She Loves Me."

Broadway newbie Cynthia Erivo gives a showstopping performance in "The Color Purple" revival, she co-stars with Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson and TV star Danielle Brooks.

Revivals of American classics attracted stage and screen stars like Jessieca Lange in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night."

This season will be remembered as one of the most diverse in cast and creative teams in Broadway history.

Check out some of the other shows featured in the video above.

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