While I was on vacation last month in Chicago, my wife and I saw the hit musical “Hamilton” at a local theater. It’s my wife’s favorite musical soundtrack, but since it’s a new show and tickets to see it on Broadway remain prohibitively expensive, it was the first time either of us had actually seen it performed.
It was great, as good as any reviewer or someone lucky enough to have seen it has ever said it is. However, as I enjoyed the clever and intricate musical numbers along with my wife, I was also pondering the show’s somewhat complicated relationship with American history, and how that ties into how Americans see themselves, their leaders, and each other.broadstreet.zone(48036);
Perhaps my favorite thing about “Hamilton” is that it has shed some well-deserved light on its namesake: Alexander Hamilton, the country’s first secretary of the treasury and perhaps the United States’ most unsung Founding
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