Hamilton is brilliant theater. No wonder tickets were for a time being sold and selling for a thousand dollars each on Broadway. The musical gets all its shots right. It is funny, romantic, inspiring, engaging, absolutely well-written and an absolute blast.
Creator Lin Manuel Miranda, music, lyrics and book, is a genius. I wonder what sort of light bulb popped over his head and gave him the idea to turn America’s founding fathers into young rappers in the midst of a revolution, and with a multi-racial cast at that. But whatever it was, it worked wonderfully.
As rapped in the opening number Alexander Hamilton, “He got a lot farther by working a lot harder/ By being a lot smarter/ By being a self-starter.” Being so in the midst of a new country feeling its way around earned him the envy of co-workers. One of them Aaron Burr would later shoot him fatally in a duel.
This beat stayed around throughout and would surface from time to time as the tale moved seamlessly along while turning the audience into happy bobble heads. Just, one thing though. I don’t think there was a Benjamin Franklin up there on stage.
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