History and political art come to life in new hit Broadway play featuring hip-hop Hamilton and Burr: Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

When composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda (“In the Heights”) began reading “Alexander Hamilton,” the 700-page historical biography by Ron Chernow about one of America’s Founding Fathers, he immediately wondered if anyone had turned it into a musical. He also saw an unlikely contemporary figure in the brash and verbose immigrant orphan from St. Croix who fought for American…