What is astonishing is how well the form fits the subject: Miranda’s use of rap, hip-hop and R&B becomes the ideal vehicle for exploring the birth of a nation. But, while Hamilton is the story’s pivot, he is also part of a musical that, like the nation itself, seems in perpetual motion. The song, referencing Someone in a Tree from Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures, shows Miranda’s deep roots in America’s musical past. Timeline How Hamilton the Musical became a smash hit Show Hide January 2015 Hamilton, a new musical written by and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, has its first performances off-Broadway at the Public theater in New York. Above all, Miranda has created an invigorating and original musical that, at a time of national crisis, celebrates America’s overwhelming debt to the immigrant.

Source: The Guardian December 21, 2017 22:15 UTC