It’s always going to have something to say,” Miranda says. With the national conversation currently centered on white supremacy and systemic racism, “the lyrics about slavery – what all of these characters did and what they didn't do – hit differently now because the show, just in telling Hamilton's story, brushes against the origins of this country. Over the years, Miranda has found it interesting how "Hamilton" has moved through the world and through time, “from the moment I got the incredible privilege of singing the first song in the White House (in 2009), back when we had a president who invited artists to the White House, to watching the show resonate under the Trump administration."įor example, there used to just be a laugh with the line “Immigrants, we get the job done.” Now it gets a “Yeaaaaaaah!” from the audience “as immigrants have been increasingly under attack” in the USA, Miranda says. The show's brain trust wanted the musical to be more accessible to audiences after “we were strapped to that rocket ship” of being a Broadway sensation and the show became a tough ticket to get, he says. The first act of the genre-smashing musical, with Black and Latino actors playing the Founding Fathers, takes Alexander Hamilton through the Revolutionary War, where he was the right-hand man of George Washington (Christopher Jackson) and the husband of Eliza Schuyler (Phillipa Soo). The second act shifts to Hamilton's tumultuous political and personal lives as a rival to Thomas Jefferson (Daveed Diggs) and longtime friend Aaron Burr (Leslie Odom Jr.).ĭirected by Thomas Kail, the “Hamilton” movie was primarily filmed in 2016 over two live performances before original cast members began to exit – and a week before Miranda departed. Watch Video: Lin-Manuel Miranda talks homeschooling, explaining COVID to his kids
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