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Hamilton began in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s mind as a concept album. One May evening in 2009, Miranda was supposed to perform a piece from his current Broadway hit, In the Heights, for “An Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word� at the White House. It was early in President Barack Obama’s administration, and Miranda decided that this was the right night, and the right crowd, to try out a new project. Supported by Alex Lacamoire on piano, Miranda introduced the White House and the world to his newest project, The Hamilton Mixtape, a hip-hop piece “about the life of someone who embodied