What did you think when you first heard the idea of turning your book into a musical? Chernow reveals what it was like for him - a musical newbie - to collaborate on the show that is now a phenomenon. Mutual friends introduced him to the book’s author, Ron Chernow, and the rest, as they say, is history-making. Before Miranda finished the second chapter of the 800-page book, he began to think of Hamilton’s life as a series of hip-hop songs, performed by people of color. The story has already become Broadway lore: Lin-Manuel Miranda was on vacation from his Tony-winning musical In the Heights when he picked up a biography of Alexander Hamilton. How involved was Chernow in the making of the musical? What does he think of Hamilton as hip-hop? And what would Hamilton, himself, think? Before Miranda wrote the show, Chernow wrote the best-selling biography on the once-forgotten Founding Father.
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