105Z Summer 2026 Hamilton: Man and Musical

Alexander Hamilton has always been known as a central player in America’s early history, but the smash Broadway musical Hamilton has focused renewed attention on this fascinating individual. The instructor will be returning to OLLI with a multimedia presentation combining Hamilton’s biography with excerpts from the show to demonstrate its richness and its place among Broadway musicals. It will update the talk he gave in 2017 and fit well into the time we commemorate the American Revolution. And yes, you may want to (quietly) sing along. 

Dan Sherman is a (mostly) retired economist who earned his Doctorate from Cornell University. Dan has given talks and classes to many groups in the area on musical theatre, opera, film and film music, and even mathematics. He gave some of the first of these talks at OLLI Mason in 2011.