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🇺🇸 Hamilton: From Founding Father To Broadway Star

2025/7/4

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, after winning a Tony Award for "In The Heights," takes a vacation and impulsively buys an Alexander Hamilton biography. This book sparks an obsession, leading him to conceive the idea of a hip-hop musical about Hamilton's life.

Lin-Manuel Miranda's vacation read of Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton biography inspired the creation of the musical.
The initial concept began as a single song, evolving into a potential concept album.

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In 2008, Lin-Manuel Miranda badly needed a vacation. He’d just won the Tony for his musical “In The Heights,” he’d been going nonstop. So he took a break, bringing a book with him for poolside lounging: the 800-page biography of America’s first treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton. But what started as a light beach read soon became an obsession. Lin HAD to bring this man’s incredible life to the stage. Thus began an epic journey: from the White House, to Lincoln Center, to (eventually) Broadway. “Hamilton” became a massive success, scoring a record 16 Tony noms, the Pulitzer Prize, and $1B+ in revenue. But along the way, Lin and his team had to reckon with a problem: when your show about democracy becomes too exclusive, how do you bring it back to the people? Find out how Ham4Ham broke the B’way mold, how a streaming deal with Disney+ set the stage for Taylor Swift, and why “Hamilton” is the best idea yet.

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