Colin Sheridan: Go and see Hamilton with eyes wide open

Trust me, this could be a show about the Lehman brothers' selling sub-prime mortgages, and, such is the power of the experience, you’d come out rooting for them

Hamilton the musical is a genuinely powerful artistic experience. 

“Immigrants? We get the job done!” Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton. 

How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence impoverished in squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar? Well, if you’re heading to Hamilton in Dublin over the next seven weeks, you’ll find out.