God bless America! “Hamilton,” the insanely popular hip-hop homage to our founding fathers, will launch its national tour at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre in March 2017.

“Hamilton,” the hottest ticket to hit Broadway since “The Book of Mormon,” has changed the way people see American history, specifically the biography of Alexander Hamilton, not mention the way they hear hip-hop. Created by the endlessly inventive Lin-Manuel Miranda (“In the Heights”), who also stars in the Broadway production, this is the kind of smash hit that prompted theatergoers to fly across the country in the face of an approaching blizzard just to score tickets.

As the New York Times raved: “A show about young rebels grabbing and shaping the future of an unformed country, ‘Hamilton’ is making its own resonant history by changing the language of musicals. And it does so by insisting that the forms of song most frequently heard on pop radio stations in recent years — rap, hip-hop, R&B ballads — have both the narrative force and the emotional interiority to propel a hefty musical about long-dead white men whose solemn faces glower from the green bills in our wallets.”

A high-octane fusion of rap, jazz and blues, the musical will anchor the 2016-2017 SHN series, which also features “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” Subscriptions packages are available now. Single tickets go on sale at a later date. www.shnsf.com

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