Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s acclaimed Broadway musical Hamilton arrives on Disney+ today, just in time for the Fourth of July. This is not just any old…
Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s acclaimed Broadway musical Hamilton arrives on Disney+ today, just in time for the Fourth of July.
This is not just any old taped Broadway show—this is Hamilton, people. This is the show you have been waiting for five long years to see. When the hip-hop musical about the founding fathers first made a splash on Broadway, it was sold out for months, even years in advance. A quick look on StubHub in 2015 would show the cheapest Hamilton tickets available were upwards of $1,000. It was absolute madness, and soon the only people seeing the show were those who related more to King George than the young, scrappy, and hungry team that was Hamilton and his band of revolutionaries.
The entire cast—not just the leads—became superstars in the way Broadway actors so rarely do.
