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Hollywood Flashback: In 2008, a Beach Read Led to the Creation of 'Hamilton'
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hollywoodreporter.comHamilton — the musical phenomenon set to premiere July 3 on Disney+ — began, humbly enough, in a hammock. That's where Lin-Manuel Miranda was lounging on a 2008 jaunt to Mexico, engrossed in Ron Chernow's 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton.
Sensing that the story of the first treasury secretary would lend itself to a musical, Miranda, then 28, started work on "The Hamilton Mixtape" — a loose collection of hip-hop verses and melodies.
The project only came to life, however, in the White House. In May 2009, then-President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama invited Miranda over for "An Evening of Poetry, Music and the Spoken Word," requesting that he perform a number from his Tony-nominated musical In the Heights.
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