The new off-Broadway musical Hamilton is pure genius. Don’t take my word for it: the show about Alexander Hamilton—George Washington’s aide-de-camp during the American Revolution, primary author of the Federalist Papers, and the nation’s first Treasury secretary—is becoming a cultural phenomenon. The show is still in previews and doesn’t open until February 17, but it has already extended its run three times and will play through May 3 at New York’s Public Theater. According to the New York Post, producers are “dueling” over who gets to bring the show to Broadway. The Wall Street Journal notes that tickets are going for $650 on StubHub. Andrew Lloyd Webber tweeted that Hamilton “raises & changes the bar for musicals.” The New Yorker weighed in with an 8,000-word piece on the show and its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Read the rest of the review by Charles Upton Sahm in City Journal.
[I have only one mild dissent with the article: Benjamin Franklin was by far the coolest Founding Father.]
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