![]() ![]() It took Miranda a year to write Hamilton’s first song-and another year to write the second song. Miranda recalled to Vogue that “I Googled ‘Alexander Hamilton hip-hop musical’ and totally expected to see that someone had already written it. “This is a guy who wrote at 14, ‘I wish there was a war.’ It doesn’t get more hip-hop than that.” “That is part and parcel with the hip-hop narrative: writing your way out of your circumstances, writing the future you want to see for yourself,” Miranda told The New York Times. ![]() And he writes a poem about the carnage and this poem gets him off the island.” ![]() “I got to the part where a hurricane destroys St. It could have been Truman,” he told 60 Minutes. “I was just browsing the biography section. Before he left, he picked up a biography called Alexander Hamilton. Not long after his show In the Heights won four Tony Awards in 2008, Lin-Manuel Miranda went on vacation. Hamilton was inspired by Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton. A movie version of the show, recorded with the original cast and titled Hamilton: An American Musical, hit Disney Plus on July 3 here are a few things you might not have known about Miranda’s take on the life and times of the first Secretary of the Treasury. No one could have predicted that a hip-hop-infused musical based on the life of Alexander Hamilton would become Broadway’s hottest ticket, but that’s exactly what happened when Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton debuted in July 2015. ![]()
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