Many of the actors and actresses playing these roles can relate to the characters that they themselves are playing. In act 1, scene 1, of Hamilton, the opening song “Alexander Hamilton” is about Hamilton’s life. Lines 5 and 6, which were sung by Aaron Burr, reads “ spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished” ,talking about how Hamilton was an orphan from the Caribbean and came to the United States. This shows that he was an immigrant who came to seek better opportunities in the United States with nothing and worked his way up to where he wants to be. The actor(s) who play Alexander Hamilton can relate to him, many of the identifying with the fact that he was an immigrant that had to work his way up to be a respected person, since most
