The cast includes Daveed Diggs as Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Jackson as George Washington, Phillipa Soo as Hamilton's wife Eliza Schuyler, and Renée Elise Goldsberry as her sister Angelica Schuyler. In the original Broadway production, which is the version Disney+ debuted this weekend, Hamilton is played by Miranda, while Aaron Burr is played by Leslie Odom Jr. We're telling the story of old, dead white men but we're using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience." Miranda has described this central innovation as "a way of pulling you into the story and allowing you to leave whatever cultural baggage you have about the founding fathers at the door. The casting of Hamilton is historically inaccurate by design.Īt risk of stating the obvious, the actual founding fathers were white, while Hamilton reimagines them as men of color, with the roles of Hamilton, Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson and more played by Black and Latinx actors. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play
"When I did part from the historical record or take dramatic license, I made sure I was able to defend it to Ron, because I knew that I was going to have to defend it in the real world. "I felt an enormous responsibility to be as historically accurate as possible, while still telling the most dramatic story possible," Miranda told The Atlanticin 2015. Nonetheless, Miranda based the show on Ron Chernow's exhaustive 2004 biography of Hamilton, and hews fairly close to historical fact-with a few exceptions.
The show is also peppered with references to real hip-hop history and even modern TV shows like The West Wing. It goes without saying that the style and vernacular of the show is deliberately anachronistic-the soundtrack draws heavily on hip-hop, R&B, pop and other musical genres that were not around in the Revolutionary era, and the characters speak in modern parlance, although their costumes are period-accurate. If you're one of the many, many people who flocked to Disney+ this July 4 weekend to watch the original Broadway production of Hamilton recreated onscreen, A) congrats, you're probably still on a high from the sheer joy of that experience, and B) you may be wondering just how much artistic license the show took with American history.
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