He himself was creating a two-and-a-half-hour-long hip hop archive of Alexander Hamilton’s life when he wrote Hamilton, but even better is that his characters are aware that they’re being archived. One of my favorite aspects of the show is how Miranda handles archives. After Hamilton writes and publishes the Reynolds Pamphlet, his wife Eliza laments all the letters he has sent her and their “palaces built out of paragraphs.” In “Non-Stop,” the fictionalized Aaron Burr asks Hamilton how he “write day and night like running out of time.” In the same song, we are informed of the Federalist Papers: John Jay wrote five, James Madison wrote twenty-five, and Hamilton wrote an astounding fifty-one. In the musical, this is a point of interest. One interesting idea that comes up repeatedly throughout the show is that of legacy and story-telling. If you weren’t already overly-invested in Alexander Hamilton’s life (like I’ve been for the past few years), you will be after listening to this soundtrack. Based on the biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, the music, lyrics, and book were all written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and tell the story of the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton through a hip hop musical. By now, I think most people have at least heard of Hamilton: An American Musical.
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