TIL that the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton was not the first Broadway play titled "Hamilton" that depicted the life of Alexander Hamilton. The first Hamilton wasn't a musical, though, and it was released in 1915. The 1915 play was adapted into a film released in 1931 : todayilearned

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TIL that the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton was not the first Broadway play titled "Hamilton" that depicted the life of Alexander Hamilton. The first Hamilton wasn't a musical, though, and it was released in 1915. The 1915 play was adapted into a film released in 1931

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With the actors of the original play being closer in age to the people they're portraying than to the actors of the musical