Utah students take their shot, rapping and singing about history on the ‘Hamilton’ stage

It took about three weeks for Alton Phonepraseuth and his classmates at West Valley City’s Granger High School, Ivan Padilla and Bailey Beacham, to write their rap about the Boston Massacre — and another week to memorize it.Annsheri Reay, a student at Monticello High School south of Moab, picked Abigail Adams’ name because it was first on a list of prominent figures of the Revolutionary War, and wrote a rap in about an hour.And Kiysa Gorley, a student at Delta High School in th