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Time’s Best of 2015 — Hamilton

The Broadway show Hamilton uses rap and hip-hop to tell the story of Alexander Hamilton’s rise to power during the American Revolution. The show broke multiple records for its cast recording and notched record-breaking sales of $32 million before it even hit Broadway. But the cast makes history in different ways, too, with men and women of color playing characters who were all white. There’s an African-American Vice President Aaron Burr, a biracial George Washington and a Chinese-American Mrs. Alexander Hamilton.

Hamilton’s George Washington makes me feel way more patriotic than anything I learned in US History.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

THIS IS WHY HAMILTON IS SO IMPORTANT  

(and side note– I adore Leslie Odom Jr.)

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The play’s three female leads (Phillipa Soo as Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, Alexander’s wife; Renée Elise Goldsberry as Eliza’s sister, Angelica, who also loved Hamilton; and Jasmine Cephas Jones in a dual role as youngest sister Peggy and the adulterous Maria Reynolds) refer to one another as “sisters” offstage and on. For them, Hamilton has been a surreal, staggering ride. “It’s a little hard to process,” says Jones, who, like Soo, made her Broadway debut with the show. “This is literally stuff that you dream about. I do my best to hold onto the moment and be present, because I know it might not happen again.”

Meet the Starring Women of Broadway’s Coolest Musical

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