and feeling the music it inspires you to continue to go down the right place, lin-manuel miranda, thomas kail, skrillex and diplo. >> funding for charlie rose is provided by american express. >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: alexander hamilton is the unlikely founding father who wrote his way into the pages of early american history. theodore roosevelt called him the most brilliant american statesman whoever lived. he is the subject of a musical "hamilton" which opened this week on broadway to rave reviews. writer and composer lin-manuel miranda takes the legacy to new heights using hip-hop, r&b and rap music. he calls the play the story of american then told by america now. and here's a look ♪ i'm past patiently waiting ♪ ♪ i'm passing every expectation ♪ ♪ every action. i'm laughing in the face of casualties ♪ ♪ the first time i'm thinking past tomorrow ♪ ♪ you're not throwing away my stuf

earlier we had talk toed writer, composer and star of hamilton lin manuel miranda and its director thomas kailtion. >> you sit in a room for six years making somethingment and you have the wildest dream's version of how you think a show will be received. and we're experiencing that. so we are just trying to hang on while we can. i started writing this in 2008 while i was still in my show, in the heights. i was on vacation, my first vacation from the show and i picked up ron chernow's book at random at borders just knowing that-- . >> rose: you went up and said i will take this one. >> it had great reviews in the back. i knew he died in a dual and so i knew it would have a bang ending. and fell in love with the story, really, that, the dic- ensian nature almost from the second chapper. >> rose: at the point you say dickens, dickens and dickens, what was the dickensian aspect of his life. >> alexander hamilton was born in neves, possibly out of wed lock. he was-- his father split by the time he was ten years old. his mother died in bed with him a few short years later. his brother was apprentice