The "HAMILTON (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING)" is executive produced by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter, founding members of the Grammy Award winning hip-hop band, The Roots. I am really getting into the programme, thinking lots of things about how I would play it out if it were me when one of the main characters, Cary, says to Diane “do you have the vote”? Following the 70th Tony Awards in 2016, the album re-peaked at number 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, making it one of only three cast recordings to reach the top 10 in the last 50 years.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sydney James Harcourt, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 5 The Room Where It Happens - Leslie Odom, Jr.Although the primary genres are definitely hip hop and rap, there are clever nods to other genres such as King George III's love songs to his colony all being styled as British Invasion pop.

Meet Me Inside" contains elements of " Party Up (Up in Here)" written by Kasseem Dean and Earl Simmons. The Story of Tonight (Reprise) - By Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, JR 1. HAMILTON" has book, music and lyrics by Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer Lin Manuel Miranda, who also plays the title role. My introduction to this musical was seeing people on social media raving about it, so I decided to give it a shot.

Hamilton's debut was the second-biggest first week sales of a Broadway cast album, just behind the cast album for the musical Rent. I sigh, resigning myself to having lost again and an afternoon of random sound clips playing through my mind. The musical is directed by Thomas Kail, with choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and music direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire. The score is densely packed with fantastic and clever lyrics and at no point are you left guessing about the story.