The cast members of 'Hamilton' remixed songs from the hit show's soundtrack to encourage voter participation this election — laying out the stakes and the nitty-gritty of casting a ballot.
with roughly a dozen cast members as part of a virtual voter turnout event hosted by former first lady Michelle Obama and the nonprofit group When We All Vote.The group, co-chaired by Obama, Miranda and other celebrities, launched before the 2018 midterms with the aim of boosting voter turnout among young voters and people of color.
"Alexander Hamilton," the show's opening number, is reworked to center on"Ordinary Citizen" and tells the story of voter turnout in recent elections — and the people who stayed home."A third of us weren't willing to choose a direction and 80,000 voters across three states was all it took to swing the whole election," actor Daniel Yearwood, a member of the current Broadway cast, sings about the 2016 election.
"Then the midterms came and isn't it a shame," she sings."A quarter of young people let the election go right past them. They might have made a difference — but the registration deadline came and went and some didn't register because no one asked them."
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