You can do better than a Trump musical - a Neronic tragicomic farce If you want to work in the Hamilton vein, do what Miranda *should* have done: the Toussaint L'Ouverture musical. Les Misérables but with a slave revolt that took over half of Hispaniolahttps://twitter.com/Timber_22/status/1188102518393327621?s=20 …
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it's a heroic story for sure, it's epic, yeah. But whatever; I really could care less about all the propagandistic national mythology the Americans need. They are a big, mythic country and empire and they need big heroic founding myths. Their Aeneid.
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And those myths want to be retold, and Miranda successfully retold it in a fresh new way that felt exciting, stimulating and also inclusive for non-neo-Confederate aligned audiences in the '10s.
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