Hamilton And Spring Awakening: Character Analysis

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Everyone has heard of the hit musical Hamilton and the ingenious strategy of casting people of color in the roles of our nation's, very white, founding fathers and mothers. The Deaf West Theatre Company’s version of Spring Awakening also addressed the need for social change by casting both hearing and deaf actors who used sign language to tell the story, as well as the first person to appear on Broadway in a wheelchair. Shows like Hamilton and Spring Awakening illustrate how far we have come in making the already diverse theatre community an accurate representation of the diversity of America today.
I feel strongly that the importance of representation onstage is critical to the mission of broadening the types of people that can be influenced

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