When Hamilton first hit the Broadway stage in 2015, the musical theatre world was sent into a frenzy by the palpable ambition of creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.
For starters, it’s a rapped and sung piece of historical fiction that retells the intricacies of the late 17th and early 18th-century American government. It focuses on Alexander Hamilton, the right-hand man of then-president George Washington during the country’s war with the UK, who went on to found the country’s first bank.
It also features other leading political names of that time, such as Thomas Jefferson and King George III – all seemingly resurrected in the bodies of pop, RnB and hip-hop artists. It strings together catchy verses packed with distilled historical references, making the period piece surprisingly accessible even to those who have no prior knowledge of the events themselves.
Controversial material aside, the production proved…