The musical (and its creation) is the lens through which the audience sees Hamilton’s story. The project, produced by RadicalMedia for the public broadcaster's Great Performances series, tells the chronological story of the founding father’s life, relying on historians and political heavyweights from former president George W. The resulting documentary is PBS' Hamilton’s America (Friday, 9 ET/PT), which manages to tell the story of both the musical and the man. “I said, ‘Look I don’t care where you’re going with this, I think we’ve got a compelling story.’” “When (Miranda) said he was going to do this thing about Alexander Hamilton, I knew he wasn’t talking about doing a hip-hop Schoolhouse Rock,” Horwitz says. But he knew it was going to be something. It was impossible for Horwitz, his college roommate at Wesleyan, to know just how big the musical was going to be. That’s how director Alex Horwitz managed to get a camera on Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer and star of Broadway super-smash Hamilton, as he was conceiving the musical in 2014. Discovering the next big thing is easy when it's created by your friend.
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