Hamilton writer morning night book7/9/2023 ![]() At what point did the scope of the book expand for you beyond just the behind the scenes of the show? This is where a different writer would have done a very different book. The book delves into gay marriage (by including a rap written by a high school student after they saw Hamilton) and race in America (through casting and exploring how it uses hip-hop) and deals with those and other broader topics in really interesting ways. And if that book existed, and I wasn't sure that I would be the right person to write it. But I couldn't quite see a way of doing a book that would be worthy of standing alongside this show. They're really good they do a great job of accompanying a show. I had seen a lot of the Broadway books that you just mentioned. Lin came up to me out of the blue and said, "There should be a book about the show, and you should write it." And I didn't go for the idea right away. I had no thought in my brain about writing something about Hamilton until opening night at the Public Theater. How did you guys avoid falling into that trap? JEREMY MCCARTER: It might look from the book that the whole six or seven years that I spent around the project, I spent with a notebook on my lap, taking notes, for the sake of writing a book about it. a very expensive version of the libretto). ![]() GQ: First off, I love the book, and I love that it's not just your typical Broadway coffee table book (i.e. So I spoke to the book's co-author, Jeremy McCarter-journalist, director of The Public Theater's "Public Forum" series-about how he got involved with the book and what it was like seeing the Hamilton juggernaut take off. ![]() But now, as the world prepares to watch Hamilton take home every Tony Award possible this weekend, it's an exciting moment to sit down with a guy who's been around the show from the very beginning. Once booksellers re-stocked, the book returned to number one in its fifth week on sale. It then precipitously fell, but only because they ran out of books. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. This April, Hamilton: The Revolution-a book about the making of the record-smashing musical-debuted at No. ![]()
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