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In his 1978 biography T he Young Hamilton, historian James T. So close, in fact, that there’s a great seam of speculation about them being lovers. What you should Google after the show: Hamilton’s relationship with John Laurens (played by Marty Alix). If someone on stage is adding to the scene and I catch a word, sometimes it gets stuck in my head and the word almost comes out of my mouth. Hardest thing about playing him on stage: “Switching my brain off, and not thinking about what I’m doing,” says Arrow. We don’t really know what he’s like when he’s outside of a high-pressure situation.” , you never really get the benefit of seeing him in a natural setting, like just hanging out. Would you be friends with him? “Probably not,” says Arrow, laughing. So when I’m thinking about him, I always think of Icarus or someone who will run over everything in his way to get to the end goal. “He knows what’s happening around him every minute. How would you describe him? “He’s incredibly intelligent,” says Jason Arrow, who plays Hamilton in the musical. He rose to the top of American society through the sheer force of his wit and intelligence and ambition.” “This gave him the opportunity, as he invented the country, to reinvent himself. What you should know before seeing the show: “Alexander Hamilton was the only born in the Caribbean and he didn’t know a soul when he arrived in the North American colonies as a teenager,” says Chernow. He was also the chief architect of the American financial system and one half of one of the first sex scandals to shock US politics. Who is he: One of seven Founding Fathers of the United States, Hamilton helped draft the Constitution and was the first secretary of the treasury. I probably shouldn’t brag, but dang, I amaze and astonish.

Ahead of the show’s opening in Melbourne, here’s a rough guide to the real-life history of Hamilton and its larger-than-life characters. Miranda has not followed a strict historical timeline, with many events and character histories shuffled around or altered for storytelling purposes. While many of the characters in the musical are well-known to US audiences, anyone else with no more than a passing knowledge of US history may struggle sorting fact from fiction. “You learn that in high school and that was about it.” “I knew that he was on our $10 bill in the States and I knew that he died in a duel,” Miranda told CNBC in 2017. Little did Miranda know, he was about to change not only his life, but Hamilton’s life as well, by writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Tony Award-scooping, Broadway-busting musical Hamilton. It is said history is written by the victors, but what about musicals? When Lin-Manuel Miranda picked up Ron Chernow’s book Alexander Hamilton before he went on holiday in 2008, he thought he was getting an interesting beach read. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size