The hit musical “Hamilton, ” well into its long Broadway run, was the still the hottest ticket in town during my 2016 visit to New York City. The show was playing just across the street from my hotel, offering me a chance to photograph its entrance at various times of day. Early one morning, I found two young women already claiming the first spots on the theatre’s front steps. They camped squarely in front of the building’s locked doors, well before the throngs of anxious potential ticket buyers would join them. Their relaxed body language contrasts to the larger than life size animated silhouettes of the 18th century Hamiltonian characters emblazoned upon the theatre's locked doors. A huge banner proclaiming the show as the “Musical of the Decade” hangs over the scene while the two women chat and the play’s symbolic characters dance behind them. The colors are symbolic as well. This hit rap musical about the turbulent life of America’s first Treasury Secretary is packaged in gold and black, the colors of power, wealth, and eventually grief.