Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rendering of Alexander Hamilton is a force of nature who writes like he’s running out of time. “Sweeney is and was perceived as a monster Hamilton in his own time was understood and misunderstood and perceived and misperceived.” “When we were thinking about Hamilton in those earliest days, 2011-12, we were making a show about a person who was misunderstood and perceived to be one thing and in fact was something else,” the 45-year-old recalls via Zoom. But they find connective tissue in Thomas Kail, who directed both shows at the Lunt-Fontanne and Richard Rodgers theatres respectively – and who contends that there would be no Hamilton without Sweeney. A quasi-opera about the fictional demon barber of Fleet Street and a rap-infused history of the first secretary of the US treasury seem odd bedfellows.
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