10 Best Moments from Hamilton’s America

CHICAGO, IL – SEPTEMBER 23: Lin-Manuel Miranda attends the 2016 Chicago Humanities Festival at the Lyric Opera Of Chicago on September 23, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images)

10. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tweets

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a gift to Twitter on the regular. His good morning tweets inspire you for the day ahead and goodnight tweets make you smile. You can count on him for fun gifs, stories about his son and his dog and his wife, and pictures of whatever amazing thing is going on in his life on any given day.

During the #Hamildoc, he live tweeted with the rest of us, answering questions, providing commentary, and, re-living memories of both the show and the making of the doc itself.

No one is a bigger fan of Alexander Hamilton and the cast of the play than Miranda. He has so much pride and gratitude for his friends and what they have all created. It is so much fun to see him geeking out over the history and the play itself along with the rest of us.

The best part of all of this is how genuinely sincere Miranda is about the whole Hamilton experience. He is almost tweeting as if to say, “You guys can see this too, right?” This what social media is all about. The documentary aired on PBS and streamed live on Facebook. Throughout the stream more than 17,000 people tuned in (via the view counter). And yet watching it and interacting with other fans and even just seeing Miranda’s tweets on social media made the documentary feel smaller. It seemed almost as if you were watching it in a room with your closest friends, laughing and crying and marveling over these two men who helped shape America.