My obsession with "Hamilton" started when the album came out on Spotify and I thought I would give it a listen since I had been hearing so many great things about it. Hamilton is an original play by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is also the lyricist for "In the Heights." I started to look online and see that so many people were talking about this new Broadway play and how it was basically lyrical genius. Miranda had managed to take a historic figure and his life and turn it into a hip hop rap musical. I quickly searched online for tickets and mentally tried to calculate how much a trip to New York would cost. When I found out how much the tickets were, well lets just say I had to set that dream aside.
Even though going to New York was out of the question, I still listened to the album over and over again. I got to the point where I knew every single word to every single song and would put them on replay anytime I was in the car. It was like I was feeling what the characters felt and really walking in their shoes; only a true writer can achieve something like that. I also learned more about history and historic figures that I had heard about all my life, but never connected with when it came to their story. Miranda made this play so vivacious and earth shattering that anyone that listened to it was immediately hooked.
I even have a quote from "Hamilton" on my wall in my college dorm room along with a shirt that displays all three Schuyler sisters. This play is not only an all-time favorite of mine but will be a lifetime favorite of mine as well. Here's to you Lin-Manuel Miranda and if you see this please send some tickets my way.
