We paid $99 a ticket. Our friend was offered a ticket for $300 and heard of offerings of $1600.
This play is the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of America's Founding Fathers. The dramatic work is based on the history of the man written by Ron Chernow. The script is written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who also plays the lead in the musical. I am a senior citizen with some hearing loss and I have trouble understanding the rapid fire delivery of lines in rap but the more I learn about the style, the more respect I have for the wit, insight, and word power in it. Here is a link to the number in which some of Hamilton's history is recounted. This number and much else is available to see and/or hear on YouTube. You may be aware that anyone can start a YouTube channel and others can subscribe to it, which means you will be made aware of new videos that get added to the channel. There seems to be a Hamilton channel.
Lin-Manuel Miranda put together a wonderful show and seeing George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Founding Fathers played by African and Hispanic Americans gets my attention. The comic figure, the very snooty and condescending King of England, who comes on stage once in awhile to express delight at every setback of the upstart country, is wonderful. As the Black American George Washington, having led the army and defeated Great Britain, a superpower of the age, having served as president of the new, weird country consisting of pathetically amatuer politicians and thinkers, decides to retire, the King of England admits that he hadn't been aware that a person could do such a thing.
The show is eye-opening and full of energy. It is very exciting and hopeful to see the Puerto Rican American, Lin-Manuel Miranda write such a script and perform so well in the lead. My wife has the soul and training of a dancer and she never stopped absorbing the dances.
Miranda evidently has hopes of seeing the show made into a movie. Whether it is in New York, a local production or a movie, do yourself a favor and see it. It will give you renewed interested in how we all got started.
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