It’s a bit amazing that Hamilton is opening in Sydney on 27 March. Only a few months ago it was anybody’s guess whether it could go ahead or the producers would just take the money and run. And this show with its rap/hip hop reconfiguration of a famous set of incidents in Independence-era America is one of the great paradigm shifts in the development of the musical, as distinctive in its way as Oklahoma! or My Fair Lady.
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