Thursday, April 7, 2016
‘Hamilton’ Tickets for Students and Wisdom From Its Creator
Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” spent a half-hour with about 40 students at Bronx Theatre High School.
On April 13, they will be among the first of 20,000 New York City public-school students given access to $10 ‘Hamilton’ tickets through a nearly $1.5 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Tickets, which are hard to come by at face value, went to high schools with concentrations of poor students...