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Lin-Manuel Miranda attends the 2025 National Board of Review Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on January 07, 2025 in New York City. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Trump crashes "Hamilton" on "SNL"

Alex Galbraith
"The Little Mermaid" 2023 (Disney)

Panic over "woke" Little Mermaid lyrics

Alison Stine
Encanto (Disney)

Forget "Bruno" & give us "Dos Oruguitas"

Dr. Jodi Eichler-Levine
Leslie Grace and Corey Hawkins in "In the Heights" (Warner Bros.)

A miraculous New York "In the Heights"

Jose Solis
"Queer Eye;" "RBG;" "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" (Netflix/Magnolia Pictures/Focus Features)

A feel-good cheat sheet to survive 2018

Mary Elizabeth Williams
'Weird Al' Yankovic (Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

Weird Al takes on "Hamilton"

Matthew Rozsa
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Getty/Matt Winkelmeyer)

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Puerto Rico single

Rachel Leah
The Hamilton Mixtape: Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) (Youtube/Hamilton: An American Musical)

See "Hamilton's" "Immigrants"

Gabriel Bell
Mike Lee (AP/Molly Riley/Penguin Random House)

Mike Lee's bad history

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
(Comedy Central)

"Hamilton" on "Drunk History"

Melanie McFarland
Mike Pence leaves the Richard Rodgers Theatre after a performance of "Hamilton," in New York, Nov. 18, 2016. (AP/Andres Kudacki)

Pence draws fire

Max Cea
Lin-Manuel Miranda in "Hamilton’s America" (PBS/Joan Marcus)

In the rooms where it happened

Melanie McFarland
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Salon Staff
"Hamilton" actors bow to the audience (Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Hamilton is the new Star Wars

Jeanna Lucci-Canapari
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