Making Of 'Hamilton' Documentary To Be Screened At Morris-Jumel Mansion

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A documentary chronicling the creative process behind the super-hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" will be screened at Washington Heights' Morris-Jumel Mansion. The colonial mansion, marketed as "Manhattan's oldest house," played a role in the creation of the musical.

"Be in the house where it happened as we screen “Hamilton’s America,” the PBS documentary chronicling the creative process behind the hit musical "Hamilton" (portions of which were filmed at Morris-Jumel)," an event listing on the mansion's website reads.

Washington Heights native Lin-Manuel Miranda was given a writing space inside the Morris-Jumel Mansion where he scribed portions of the musical, according to a New Yorker profile.

"I met with the head of the Museum of American Finance, and he showed me the plaque on the side of an office building that says, ‘This was Thomas Jefferson’s residence in New York,’" Miranda told the New Yorker. "I love that we are just a bunch of layers above where all this s--t went down."

Tickets to the documentary screening will cost $30 for the general public and $20 for museum members and students, according to the event listing. After the screening there will be a question and answer session with the documentary's director Alex Horwitz

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