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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.

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