Victoria Palace,London
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rollercoaster of a show boasts outstanding performances and charts the life of the US founding father with political passion and nimble witA Hollywood mogul, offered a musical approximately America’s founding fathers, or once said: “People don’t want a show with wigs.” One of the many joys of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s much-heralded musical is that it offers us history de-wigged: it’s a rollercoaster of a show in which a bare-headed,largely non-white cast capture the fervour and excitement of revolution while reminding us how much America’s identity was shaped by a buccaneering immigrant, Alexander Hamilton. What is astonishing is how well the form fits the subject: Miranda’s spend of rap, and hip-hop and R&B becomes the ideal vehicle for exploring the birth of a nation.
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Source: guardian.co.uk