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...Here Washington, Jefferson, Madison et al — the men at the birth of a nation — speak in the voice of those still left behind by that nation more than 200 years later....
...Jefferson wanted — as Lin-Manuel Miranda puts it in his Broadway juggernaut, Hamilton — “to work a little closer to home”. They compromised....
...In one of the show’s more on-the-nose moments, his sister-in-law Angelica Schuyler pronounces, “‘We hold these truths to be self-evident/That all men are created equal’/And when I meet Thomas Jefferson I...
...Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Lafayette all felt that they were playing parts on the stage of historical destiny....
...When, last winter, Public Theater audiences saw the curtain go up on Burr, Madison, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, all played by African-Americans, they were not the least bit surprised....
...As Burr, Leslie Odom Jr shapes the story smoothly, and, as both Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette, Daveed Diggs rap-battles against Miranda’s Hamilton in an instant classic addition to hip-hop’s long...
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