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Lin Manuel Miranda was born 16th January 1980 in Washington, New York. He graduated in 2002 from Wesleyan where ‘he studied theatre and then went onto perform and write his own shows and songs’(Britancia, 2021).

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Lin wrote ‘in the heights’ first draft when he was still in his sophmore year of college and had its broadway debut in 2008 after ‘performing for 2 years at a local theatre’ (linmanuel, 2020). Lin read a biography about Americas history and Alexsander Hamilton life this is when he started writing the musical Hamilton because he was inspired and interested in the history. In january 2015 Hamilton made its first performance off Broadway and then went to Broadway in the summer.

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Hamilton is set in the American revolution. Both Hamilton and Burr are up against each other as both of their aims is the rule the country. Hamilton is wanting to do anything to create a legacy for himself and is willing to hurt and lie to many of his friends in order to get to the top and have his shot at changing history.

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Lin fist set a deadline and would perform whatever he had at a concert.

when Lin was at this concert he got a piece of advise from John Wideman  to not focus on the entire book but just pic out the parts that wuld look good in a musical.

They also reference their use of venn diagrams to show the type of bond that they each have as directors and very much appreciate that each of them has different ideas and different interpretations.

The 4 of them got on so well and said that their ideas all blended together and that there was very little time where their ideas wouldn't fit together and have to rework ideas.

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Hamilton's America - Interview with Lin Manuel Miranda - PBS

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When Lin started to co-write bring it on , the experience taught him how tricky it can be to blend pre recorded samples and live instruments in a theatre and I’m guessing that’s one of the reasons why Hamilton is all done live

In Hamilton everyone wears a mic- even the people who don't have a line including all the instruments in the band so the sound director has full control of the musical.

Hamilton is the hardest show he has ever done as he only wants one mic turned on at a time of stage so he has to go back and fourth quickly.

All the echoing effect are done live on stage which is very are in musicals and typically they are prerecorded.

Burr and Hamilton wear two microphones just incase one breaks and they have a replacements immediately.

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Adam Savage Explores the Sound Mixing of Hamilton!

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Hip hop was seen as a way to get people of colour's thoughts and own experiences with racism. They were upset and angry because they were abused and ignored by the middle and upper class white people as they were denied in society which resulted in unfair treatment due to the colour of their skin.

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A sample is a section of song which is used in the practitioners own way. A sample can be anything from the rhythm, pitch or even the exact copy which is slightly changed and manipulated

Lin sampled music from different rap and Hiphop artists in his production Hamilton.For example, Lin sampled Notorious B.I.G's song " the 10 crack commandments " which is heard in Hamilton as " the 10 duel commandments"

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Lin was inspired to write Hamilton after reading a biography about Alexander Hamilton and America during the revolutionary war.

129 spring clothing store- the basement of this store is the involved location in the Levi weeks murder case . The woman who was accused was then found in the well of the building and has had many reports of hauntings . The location isn’t in the musical however it is mentioned on the song “non stop “ because the murder trial was defended by H and B .

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The majority of politicians were rich white males and issues of segregation were still apparent. Opportunities were very hard to get as the white people would move out to the suburbs with their businesses causing major issues for the poorer people who had to travel long distances to get a paying job.

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Hamilton and Motifs: Creating Emotional Paradoxes

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Legacy/history- Something that consumes Hamilton his entire life. He was willing to do anything as long as it made him look good/ meant something to him.  The idea of history having its eyes on you haunts many of the characters as Hamilton was willing to even ruin his reputation in order for him to rewrite the history books and have his last chance to have "his shot" at making a name and legacy for himself.

war and conflict- Hamilton is set in the American revolution. Hamilton believes that war will help prove the countries independence but also his reputation and to help him stand out in history. In the performance Hamilton and Burr are constantly at war with each other as they are both wanting to rule the country and Burr gets tired of Hamilton's lies and secrets which causes an uproar between the two.

Time- Hamilton is in constant fear that he doesn't have enough time and that his time is running out and going to quick for him to create a legacy.

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A motif is a reoccurring theme, idea or musical phrase in a performance.  In Hamilton many of these happen throughout the production .​

An example of a  recurring motif which was explored a lot throughout the video was “wait for it” which appears numerous times throughout the show and its woven into other songs done by the ensemble as well. What I found interesting was the song Hurricane and how “wait for it” was included in the song. Halfway through the song Hurricane H sings “write my way out” whilst the ensemble sings “wait for it” which represents the voices going through H head and Burr’s advice going through H subconsciousness which he decided not to follow because he knows how hypocritical it would be to listen to Burr. ​

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Lin had many influences when he was creating and designing Hamilton.