Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda Talk About Bringing Hamilton to Life

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton has taken off-Broadway by storm, and the Great White Way isn’t too far off. The musical’s scribe and star sat down with Mo Rocca for CBS News to chat about giving the founding father a new beat at the Public Theater. “We take it as a given that hip-hop music is the music of the revolution,” Miranda explained, saying the unexpected genre “is writing your way out of your circumstances; all my favorite hip-hop songs are really good musical theater ‘I want’ songs.” Take a look below as Miranda discusses transforming cabinet meetings into rap battles, the Schuyler sisters into Destiny’s Child and more, and catch Hamilton off-Broadway through May 3 and at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre beginning July 13.