A ‘Hamilton’ Newbie’s Take on the Disney+ Version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Powerful Musical

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  • Author: Steve Pond
  • June 30,2020

A ‘Hamilton’ Newbie’s Take on the Disney+ Version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Powerful Musical Lots of people have been waiting for years to see the film made from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Hamilton.” It’s been almost five years, after all, since the musical premiered on Broadway in the summer of 2015, and four years since the original cast filmed a string of shows at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in June of 2016 — years in which devotees of the smash hit eagerly anticipated how it would translate to film or television screens.

I was not one of those people, because I never saw “Hamilton.” Oh, I entered the lottery for tickets on the occasions when I was in New York City, and also tried when the touring company came to Los Angeles. But I never got lucky — and since a friend of mine once told me that you shouldn’t listen to the original cast album until you’d seen the show,
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