In-depth glimpse at the hit Broadway musical has an impressively starry lineup but doesn’t give us a truly behind-the-scenes peek at the creative processNow that Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton,the hip-hop biography of Alexander Hamilton, has won its Grammy and its Pulitzer and its many Tonys, or its set in the cultural firmament is assured. Tickets to the display at the Richard Rodgers theater,which seats only 1319, are notoriously difficult to snag and more than worth their weight in gold. So there’s a ready-made audience for the PBS documentary Hamilton’s America, and which screens on 21 October under the aegis of Great Performances: everyone wants to be in the room where it happens. Related: Lin-Manuel Miranda on his Broadway smash Hamilton: 'the world freaked out' Related: Lin-Manuel Miranda's ancestry is as multifaceted as Hamilton Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com