I just want to but in here to say that musicals really aren't culturally relevant or impactful anymore. Maybe the people who lead the nation watch them, but ultimately those people are bound to the will of the mass population, who watch easily consumed Hollywood films that don't require live actors and only cost twenty dollars to get a ticket for. Whatever the messages are in this musical, it doesn't matter. Wait, seriously, they turned the founding fathers black? That's fucking hilarious. Edit: The article actually covers this point pretty well: Wow, I came into this being very cynical and expecting a big stupid rant about things that don't matter, but this article is very interesting.Yet because a large fraction of these people are elite taste-makers, Hamilton becomes a topic of disproportionate interest, discussed at unendurable length in The New Yorker and Slate and The New York Times Magazine, yet totally inaccessible to anyone besides the writers and members of their close social networks.