Hamilton opened on Broadway in 2015 and quickly became one of the hottest tickets the industry has ever seen. Lin-Manuel Miranda - who wrote the book, lyrics, and music, and created the title role - adapted the show from Ron Chernow''s biography Alexander Hamilton. Although it seems an unlikely source for a Broadway musical, Miranda found a liminal space where the life that Hamilton led and the issues that he confronted came alive more than twocenturies later while also commenting on contemporary life in the United States and how we view our nation''s history. With a score largely based on rap and drawing on other aspects of hip-hop culture, and staged with actors of color playing the white Founding Fathers, Hamilton has much to say about race in the UnitedStates today and in our past, but at the same time it leaves important things insufficiently explained, such as the role of women and people of color in Hamilton''s time. Dueling Grounds: Revolution and Revelation in the Musical Hami
