Hooray for Hamilton

Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in a filmed version of his blockbuster musical

- CAREN CLARK, ALISON SLADE, RICHARD MCCLURE

MUSICAL

Hamilton

From Friday 3 July, Disney+

A hip-hop musical set in the 18th century about how Alexander Hamilton battled against the odds to become one of America’s Founding Fathers and helped establish the country’s Constitution doesn’t sound a likely hit.

But when Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote Hamilton, he knew he had something special on his hands.