Our Cast Looks Like America Looks Now Analysis

Hamilton is an incredibly popular, highly awarded musical and its had this much success for a reason. Not only is it an incredibly well written piece of work, it deals with so many issues in today’s world. But it does this through the lens of a historical story. By addressing how the world looks now by observing how the world looked then we can see how far society has come and also see how far it still needs to go. This play address politics, race, and culture, and it works to advance society by uniting historically white dominated theater with the culturally diverse hip hop and rap genres of music. It also calls attention to the way the world looks today with so many more races then just white.
If this musical was trying to be ascetically
New York Times has quoted him explaining this choice by saying, “Our cast looks like America looks now, and that’s certainly intentional. It’s a way of pulling you into the story and allowing you to leave whatever cultural baggage you have about the founding fathers at the door.” And I believe this is one of the aspect that makes Hamilton such a powerful tool in fixing society. If you were to suddenly stop using race blind casting for this play it would not only go against Mr. Miranda’s vision for this play, but it would steal some of the power from this play. No matter what America looks like this play needs to be race blind because once you start choice actors for these roles based on the color of their skin, whether your specifically choosing colored actors or white actors, you break from the message of the play. Even if the world changes to make white the minority if your casting to