KQED Charlie Rose March 22, 2016
Remember, youre listening to it consecutively and that is what it shares with musical theater. And so i set it as a challenge to myself to sort of encapsulate hamiltons entire life until the moment he reaches new york in one song. And so it forced me to think in a hamiltonian way, like i was telling you before, the thing about hamilton is he spoke in paragraphs. And so the opening sentence of our show is this crazy runon sentence, how does a bas tard, orphan son of a whore and a scotsman dropped in the middle of a forgot enspot in the caribbean by providence, impoverished in squaller, coma, gr...