The task at hand is to take this show about the Founding Fathers on the road, and be able to portray a group of largely aristocratic slave-owning European white men as the "true underdogs" in a way that is relevant to a 21st century American audience.

IRL this "Revolution" merely replaced one such aristocracy with another, a Platonian slave-empire Republic with a very clearly defined upper-class. You see this when you walk around DC and everything is impersonation Ancient Greece, and when you consider that they decided to call the US Senate the US "Senate," after the institution that the Roman Empire had ("Senate" not otherwise being a particularly popular word in the late 18th century).

Our Founders mashed together English Liberalism with Classic European Antiquity. They wrote things like "Life, Liberty, and Estate the Pursuit of Happiness" and hoped no one would recognize their quick cross-outs. They also hoped no one would notice that whole slavery thing, and that they went ahead and built giant penises in the middle of the national mall. This shit really makes no sense, and is self-contradictory all over the fucking place.

Hey, how about that Whiskey Rebellion? Oh, look, now it makes even LESS sense.

But that's not a good evening of entertainment.

It needs to look like the Founders were scrappy underdogs that were each individually internally consistent for the show to work, the Hamilton character especially.

That is made about 100 times easier if they are persons of color. Which brings us right back to self-contradictory all over the place and trying to make that make sense to a 21st century American Audience.