Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda on Wednesday released what he called a "musical counterweight" to the US political debate on immigration, inspired by one of the best-known lines from his award-winning, racially diverse Broadway musical. The video Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) portrays refugees and immigrants from around the world in camps, garment sweatshops, fruit-picking fields and crowded trains. The line "Immigrants, we get the job done" brings rousing applause on Broadway, where Hamilton has been playing to sold-out audiences for two years. This is a musical counterweight," Miranda wrote in a commentary on the music community website Genius.com. Hamilton won 11 Tony awards in 2016 and has productions already or about to open in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles and London.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 28, 2017 23:48 UTC