King George was like Rufus Wainwright meets King Herod from Jesus Christ Superstar. I’m trying to think of some of the other ones. And so, that was the thinking behind each of the characters.
She’s smarter than Alexander, she’s smarter than Jefferson, but because she is a woman in this time, she only gets to exercise it in a few ways. And Angelica’s character was Desiree Armfeldt, who’s the smartest character in Little Light Music meets Nicki Minaj because she’s just got the fastest raps in the show and the hardest raps in the show. I think George Washington was a Mufasa meets … So, every character description was a half a musical theatre reference and half a hip hop reference. I wanted musical folks who loved hip hop but had never been able to bring that, to come in. I wanted people who had never auditioned for a musical to audition. Miranda: My goal with it was I wanted to have as big a tent in terms of the casting as possible. On the decision to have the musical’s characters inspired by hip-hop/R&B artists of past and present: Going H.A.M.: A Track-By-Track Review Of The 'Hamilton' Soundtrack “Our hope is,” he continues, “by putting it on Disney Plus where tens of millions of people can see it in one day, that maybe we’re doing some kind of service towards that and just trying to participate and contribute.” And that’s all that we can do…” adds Hamilton‘s director and producer, Thomas Kail.
“And clearly, in this moment where we exist, it feels like if this show can give energy and momentum to the movement, then the show is serving the moment. It’s not an accident that we have Black and brown bodies playing these founders.” And I think that if you tell it that way, you see it through a kind of different lens. And then I picked up this history book and my way in was that he grew up in the Caribbean and he came from somewhere else. And so, that was my way into the story. “All I knew about him was he was the white guy on the 10 and he died in a duel. I was not a history fan prior to reading Hamilton’s book,” shared Miranda-the filmed musical’s protagonist Alexander Hamilton and producer behind its book, music, and lyrics-in an interview with VIBE during an on-camera interview. “Listen, I didn’t care about these people either. But what brings all of this full circle is the irony of how monuments dedicated to many of America’s forefathers (and slave owners) are now being torn down in protest. There’s a melting pot of actors, rappers, and singers of color telling the stories of figures in American history through the lens of hip-hop, R&B, and popular music. With the ongoing protests around the murderous killing of George Floyd, the unwavering #BlackLivesMatter movement, and the exposing spotlight on the systemic racism that has plagued America for centuries, Hamilton‘s film premiere couldn’t arrive at a better time.
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