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You\u2019d be hard-pressed to find any greater pop-culture rebuke of the anti-immigrant, anti-DEI messages promulgated by the Trump administration than in the big-screen spectacle<\/a> of Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical \u201cHamilton\u201d as it plays in theaters for the first time.<\/p>\n On opening night Friday at Hollywood\u2019s historic El Capitan Theatre, devoted fans donned powdered wigs and Colonial coats and belted out every song along with the cast. \u201cImmigrants, we get the job done,\u201d was, of course, the biggest applause line of the night.<\/p>\n The line always gets a huge roar, but it hits differently in a city in the midst of ongoing ICE raids<\/a>. The entire show, for that matter, resonates at a higher pitch in 2025 when the government is eliminating diversity efforts at arts institutions and universities across the country. There is a reason, after all, that the creators of \u201cHamilton\u201d pulled an upcoming engagement of the musical at the Kennedy Center after Trump fired its board members<\/a> and installed himself chairman, all the while claiming that the organization was too \u201cwoke.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAt its heart, \u2018Hamilton\u2019 celebrates American diversity,\u201d Miranda said in a statement to The Times<\/a> in March about his decision. \u201cThe recent shift in the Kennedy Center\u2019s ideology and board leadership has made it untenable for a production like \u2018Hamilton\u2019 to celebrate and be celebrated there today.\u201d<\/p>\n The genius of Miranda\u2019s \u201cHamilton,\u201d which first premiered off-Broadway at New York\u2019s Public Theater in 2015, was that he told the story of the country\u2019s Founding Fathers using a cast made up almost entirely of actors of color. Miranda, who is of Puerto Rican descent, played Hamilton, Leslie Odom Jr. was Aaron Burr, Christopher Jackson was George Washington and Daveed Diggs was Thomas Jefferson.<\/p>\n The music was vibrant, historically fortified hip-hop. The rich performances were flush with emotion, and the actors\u2019 words ebbed and flowed on lyrical waves of Democratic ideals. In Miranda\u2019s \u201cHamilton\u201d audiences saw what America could be if it were truly an egalitarian, enlightened society unhindered by the ugly racism that scarred it from the very start.<\/p>\n \u201cHamilton\u201d is playing on the big screen for the first time.<\/p>\n (Jessica Gelt \/ Los Angeles)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n Next year marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Trump has established a task force to organize a full year of festivities culminating in a grand celebration on the National Mall for the Fourth of July. But Trump\u2019s plans extend beyond marking the occasion \u2014 he wants to transform the complex narrative that has evolved over many decades about the ugly role slavery played in the country\u2019s founding and its rise to world dominance.<\/p>\n To that end, Trump is in the midst of a pressure campaign against the Smithsonian Institution \u2014 claiming that it puts too much focus on \u201chow bad slavery was\u201d<\/a> and directing Vice President JD Vance to root out \u201cdivisive, race-centered ideology\u201d<\/a> from its 21 museums. One of the first casualties of Trump\u2019s crusade against DEI was the Smithsonian\u2019s office of diversity, which closed soon after he took office.<\/p>\n Seeing \u201cHamilton\u201d on the big screen \u2014 with its powerful Black Washington and anti-slavery ideals \u2014 amplifies its message of inclusivity the way that only a darkened movie theater filled with cheering people can. \u201cHamilton\u201d was made for the stage, but it has taken on a towering cultural resonance that allows it to thrive onscreen. Urgency is added to the words delivered by beloved actors who loom larger than life in flickering projector light. Plus, you can watch it in the movie theater for a fraction of what it costs to see it onstage, lowering the barrier to entry.<\/p>\n \u201cHamilton\u201d tells the story of the Founding Father, beginning before the Revolutionary War and ending with his untimely death at the hands of Jefferson\u2019s vice president, Burr, during an early-morning duel in New Jersey.<\/p>\n Hamilton was born out of wedlock on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies. He was later orphaned and immigrated to the North American colonies in 1772. Poor and deeply ambitious, he rose to become a military officer in the Revolutionary War, and later, the nation\u2019s first secretary of the treasury under Washington. He advocated for the abolition of slavery, but like many of the Founding Fathers, he also benefited from the institution and even bought and sold slaves for his in-laws.<\/p>\n The story of Hamilton is the story of America: a country that achieved superpower status largely because it was a place welcoming of immigrants, where anybody willing to work hard enough could become whatever they wanted \u2014 even president of the United States \u2014 cronyism be damned.<\/p>\n Or so the story goes. The narratives of Black, brown and Indigenous people, as well as of women, LGBTQ+ and disabled people, many of whom were enslaved, denigrated, murdered and otherwise made unwelcome, were largely erased in the legend surrounding the country\u2019s founding.<\/p>\n Through its structure, casting, music and lyrics, \u201cHamilton\u201d interrogates the dominant, whitewashed narrative of America. It succeeds because it isn\u2019t a message coated in a musical \u2014 it is an organic exploration of the stories that have come to define us. One of its most compelling lyrics is, \u201cyou have no control: who lives, who dies, who tells your story.\u201d \u201cHamilton\u201d feels politically explosive because politics are baked into it by virtue of its subject matter, not added after the fact. It illustrates the great promise of a messy, fledgling democracy striving to achieve a certain kind of equality and to establish a new form of government responsive to the will of its people.<\/p>\n Two hundred fifty years in, the American experiment has gone horribly awry, although there is plenty of controversy surrounding the \u201cwhy\u201d of it. Trump and his acolytes would like to return the country to its mythical roots, seemingly wiping out any discussion of the injustices that plagued its founding and growth over the centuries.<\/p>\n \u201cHamilton\u201d is arriving on the big screen just in time to remind audiences that there is another way. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You\u2019d be hard-pressed to find any greater pop-culture rebuke of the anti-immigrant, anti-DEI messages promulgated by the Trump administration than in the big-screen spectacle of Lin-Manuel Miranda\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical \u201cHamilton\u201d as it plays in theaters for the first time. 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