Ron Chernow
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176 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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It seemed like a very unlikely topic for a Broadway musical.
I said yes to him because I'd been a lifelong theater goer.
And I thought, wouldn't it be fun to watch the development of a show from the other side of the footlights?
And it was one of the greatest experiences imaginable.
And during the seven years that I worked with Lynn on this show, every single person we thought, without exception, thought it was the single silliest idea for a musical they had ever heard.
And as Lynn likes to say, they're not laughing now.
Well, yes, you know, because I write, as you can see, long books.
The longer the book, you better make it interesting because no one wants to read a long book.
But you have to make this so interesting, so exciting that people will keep turning the pages.
And so, you know, the way that I tried to do that was,
is by humanizing Hamilton as a character, that he seems like such an extraordinary figure leading these very dramatic events that you want to find out what happened next and what happened next.
If I can't make him interesting, I can't make a living doing what I do.
The hardest part of writing the book was that Alexander Hamilton was a human word machine.
His papers fill 32 very thick volumes, and I had to read all of them.
And it was sort of difficult to keep up with just the massive amount of material.
It was a little hard on my ego, Clark, to write about a writer who was a much better writer than I was.
That made me laugh the most.
I don't know in Hamilton that there were a lot of laughs exactly.
Can you think of one, Matt?
Remind me of that.
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