One recent Sunday morning in Brisbane, the American Broadway superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda joined me for an interview on stage in front of 2,000 people. Thirty thousand people had entered a lottery to attend.
Think about that for a second: 30,000 Australians were prepared to travel from wherever they lived to listen to an actor-composer discuss a hip-hop musical about one of America's founding fathers. And not one of the most famous ones, either, like George Washington or Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin.
