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Get startedBy this point, you’d have to be living under a rock not to hear about the Broadway sensation – “Hamilton.” It changed all the rules. A hip-hop musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton and America’s founding fathers, in 2016 alone, the show received 11 Tony Awards, including best musical, and 16 Tony nominations, the most in Broadway history. It’s also won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 7 Laurence Olivier Awards is 2018, and a Grammy Award.
Hamilton is a financial success as well – as the New York Times reported, the blockbuster musical was taking in an estimated $100 million per year, putting it on track to reach $1 billion in a decade. The musical is breaking the national bounds of New York and is officially making its Australian premiere at Sydney’s Lyric Theatre in 2021.
Writer and star of “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s own story, who grew up in a Puerto Rican family living in New York City, reflects everything we love about the American Dream. When invited to perform at the White House in 2009, he could have pulled something from his previous Tony-winner “The Heights.” Instead he performed a piece from his work in progress about someone he thought embodied hip-hop: Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, a figure he also says reminds him of Tupac Shakur, the West Coast rapper shot to death in 1996.
People laughed. Now they can’t wait to get tickets. In fact, the cast now performs a mini-show for the lines of people trying to get rush tickets each day. One of their most commendable Taking risks pays off.
Lessons we can take from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton: The Revolution”
There are quite a few lessons that the famous play “Hamilton” teaches us. Here are just a few.
