VIDEO: Hundred-Dollar Founding Father Benjamin Franklin Tries Getting An Audition For HAMILTON

Broadway has been pretty good to Benjamin Franklin. Back in 1964, no less than Robert Preston portrayed him in the musical BEN FRANKLIN IN PARIS and less than five years later Howard Da Silva made an indelible impression as America's first genius in 1776.

So perhaps it's understandable that the hundred-dollar founding father might feel slighted a bit by not being included in Lin-Manuel Miranda's revolutionary smash, HAMILTON.

In the very clever video, actor Brian Patrick Mulligan, who has made a career out of impersonating Benjamin Franklin on stage and at personal appearances, imagines the inventor of the stove getting a bit hot under the collar when given a rough time at an audition for the 16-time Tony-nominated hit.

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HAMILTON opened on August 6, 2016 at Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre. The cast of Hamilton is comprised of Lin-Manuel Miranda (Alexander Hamilton), Daveed Diggs (Marquis De Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson), Renée Elise Goldsberry (Angelica Schuyler), Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Rory O'Malley (King George), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler, Maria Reynolds), Javier Muñoz (Hamilton alternate), Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan, James Madison), Leslie Odom, Jr. (Aaron Burr), Anthony Ramos (John Laurens, PhilipHamilton) and Phillipa Soo (Eliza Hamilton).

With book, music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler and musical direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow's biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.

HAMILTON is the story of America's Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the West Indies who became George Washington's right-hand man during the Revolutionary War and was the new nation's first Treasury Secretary. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B, and Broadway,HAMILTON is the story of America then, as told by America now.