The Wizard of Oz (1939) made me think about how we (as a society) are much more accepting of race changing in stage shows or movies when it's done across the board than when it happens to just one or two established characters. The Wiz (1978) is an example - no one really had a problem with an all-black version of a movie that originally had no black actors. Same with Hamilton (I'm assuming since I haven't seen it).
Where this doesn't work is where you're dealing with historical fact and the topic or point of the story is race. You could not, for instance, swap the races of the officers and the soldiers in the movie Glory (1989) - which tells the true story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union Army's earliest African-American regiments in the American Civil War.
Where this doesn't work is where you're dealing with historical fact and the topic or point of the story is race. You could not, for instance, swap the races of the officers and the soldiers in the movie Glory (1989) - which tells the true story of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, one of the Union Army's earliest African-American regiments in the American Civil War.