The Revelation that Is Hamilton, Its Own Revolution

There aren’t enough awards you can throw at the musical Hamilton to do the play justice. It isn’t just that its brilliantly written, with songs and music impossible to forget, impossible to not to adore. It isn’t just that it’s about the significance of immigrants and slaves in American history. It isn’t that Lin-Manuel Miranda conceived it after reading a biography of Alexander Hamilton and somehow put together this masterpiece of movement, language, costumes and vibrant performances. In the end, Hamilton’s gift to the world is its breakthrough of casting regardless of skin color (or more precisely, regarding it in fresh terms). When you have black actors playing George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, not to mention a Puerto Rican actor playing Hamilton, this is a truly colorblind play that reaches far into our past, erases so much of that was myth, while offering us a new way of looking at ourselves.