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Season 3, Episode 14

Cosmopolitan Magazine Photoshoot for Hamilton, the “Hottest Ticket on Broadway”

For a founding father, Alexander Hamilton was a bit of a badass: Dude is born into poverty, becomes fabled revolutionary, dies by duel. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tony-winning writer and star of Broadway smash hit In the Heights, thought so too. So he did what anyone — wait, make that no one — would think to do: bring the story to the stage via a hip-hop/R&B musical that has Hamilton (Miranda) spitting verses like, “We are meant to be a colony that runs independently / Meanwhile, Britain keeps on shitting on us endlessly,” and rap battling Thomas Jefferson. Cue the rave reviews and sold-out crowds. Fast-forward six months: The show has moved from NYC’s Public Theater to Broadway’s big leagues. Here, Hamilton’s cast members hit the streets and share their own stories.

Hamilton Hijinks @ the National Portrait Gallery