EXCLUSIVE: Compare Hamilton (2015) with Hamilton (1917): First Publication of Lin-Manuel Miranda's L by Robert Viagas

One of the biggest hits of the spring is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Off-Broadway musical, Hamilton, which is scheduled to move to Broadway this summer. But it will not be the first time a show of that title and subject has appeared on Broadway. Nearly a century ago dramatic actor George Arliss starred as the Founding Father in Hamilton, a play he co-wrote with Mary P. Hamlin.

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