Published: January 09, 2020
Sydney Opera House
The explosively joyous UK musical reclaims history for the beleaguered Queens: divorced, beheaded, live!
Once in a generation, a musical becomes a cultural phenomenon. When Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton landed in New York, it joined the story-focused Oklahoma, the rock opera Hair, the highbrow, complicated Company and, yes, even the box office-smashing spectacle of Cats in breaking the form open and changing its course.
Hamilton, with its revisionist history, contemporary storytelling and referential hip-hop score quickly became a milestone genre work – and just a few years later, musical theatre creators are already taking a leaf out of its book.
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