![]() ![]() Phillipa Soo as Eliza and Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hamilton. ![]() In less than two years, it has exploded all box office records – it has sold $1bn worth of tickets – and won every theatrical prize (including the Pulitzer prize for drama), garnering the kind of hyperbolic praise that no production can possibly live up to. The result is that nearly every song in the show works as a complex historical concert, layering musical pasts with the musical present, just as the historical past mingles with the political present. Hamilton fuses American history with current politics, using a soundtrack of American popular music and one of the most inventive librettos ever written. Unlike most of its predecessors, however, Hamilton was created by one man, Lin‑Manuel Miranda, who wrote the music, lyrics, and book about the musical (only Stephen Sondheim can claim as much, and none of his shows were such blockbusters). ![]() It joins the likes of Show Boat, Oklahoma! and West Side Story as game changers, innovative productions that forever redefined what came after them. Hamilton is the kind of transformative theatrical experience that has only happened a few times in the history of American musicals. ![]()
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