“The story of Alexander Hamilton lends itself to hip-hop treatment. “He made a complete believer out of me,” Chernow said. I was completely astonished by his response.” “He told me as he was reading the book, hip-hop lyrics started rising off the page. Ron Chernow has won numerous awards for his biographies. I went back stage afterwards and met Lin. “He was still starring in ‘In the Heights’ at the time, and I attended a matinee. “Through a mutual friend, I learned that he’d read the book,” Chernow said of Miranda.
READ: Mel Brooks is making a Broadway adaptation of ‘Blazing Saddles’īut it certainly was no more unlikely than hip-hop Hamilton. It was a seemingly unlikely hit about growing up in the largely Dominican Washington Heights section of Manhattan. Miranda’s first Broadway show, 2008’s “In the Heights,” was nominated for 13 Tony Awards, winning four, including for best musical and best score. The musical is the brainchild of Lin-Manuel Miranda, one of the brightest young lights on the Great White Way.
Nevertheless, the hottest ticket on Broadway today is “Hamilton,” which received rapturous reviews and has played to full houses since it opened last month. “I think I can safely say that that’s the last thing I would have expected.” “I never imagined that Hamilton would be turned into a musical, much less a hip-hop musical,” Chernow said in a telephone conversation with JTA.
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