The film features several actors with major stage credits, including , John Boyega, , Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson, alongside original star .
Lupita Nyong鈥檕, who stars in the hit Off-Broadway drama , which will open on Broadway early in 2016, plays Maz, a pirate who hangs out at a seedy dive bar.
That bar, however, has some of the best music in the galaxy because while John Williams has returned with his distinctive orchestra underscoring that has distinguished the previous six films in the franchise, director J.J. Abrams handed over the scoring of the bar sequence to and composer .
In Abrams revealed that he collaborated with Miranda on music for an updated version of the iconic cantina scene from the very first "Star Wars" movie.
Adam Driver, who appeared on Broadway in , and the hit HBO series "Girls," is joined by fellow "Star Wars" newcomers Oscar Isaac (We Live Here), Domhnall Gleeson (, Now or Later), John Boyega (Six Parties at U.K.'s ), Andy Serkis ( in the West End), Max von Sydow (Night of the Tribades, Duet for One) and Daisy Ridley (great-neice of British playwright and actor Arnold Ridley). Fisher starred on Broadway in her autobiographical solo show .
Fans of both the series and of Broadway had fun creating mashups of stills from the classic "Star Wars" films with quotes from Miranda's Hamilton.
Members of the film's cast appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," and performed an a capella arrangement of Williams' themes from the film. They were joined by the band The Roots, members of which served as producers of the cast album of Hamilton:
