I've been listening to the soundtrack to Hamilton for quite a while. I live in the city where it is being done, but I'm not rich enough to go see it. My son went to see it with his school, and he was really disappointed because inferior actors were playing the parts, compared to the sound track.
I'm listening to the audio book of the biography of Hamilton. Of course a Broadway play is more about mythmaking and drama than history, so to compare the two is absurd. The Broadway show will not be historically accurate.
Somehow a hip hop Broadway show about a founding father is amazing in the hands of Lin-Manuel Miranda. I'm looking forward to In The Heights too. I haven't mustered the attention to listen to the whole thing, but some like that more than Hamilton. Outside how enjoyable this show is, America loves someone who has become fabulously wealthy. He's become a superstar. What you can do in America. Create perhaps the best Broadway show of all time, and you don't need to get parts in movies, you make them for yourself. The perfect self made man.
Of course nobody does anything in a vacuum. He's had some help, and acts in a show with many others. One thing to notice is that the founding fathers are minorities! It's a cool way to rewrite the myths, to include everyone.
The first thing I notice about the movie, I watch at 7am the day it comes out on Disney Plus, is that it's slower than the soundtrack. Where I have to rush to sing along with the soundtrack, I have to slow down.
The audience is a big help, they laugh at the bursar joke. They love the "The Schuyler Sisters" sass.
Seeing it is different in many ways. The words are so evocative, I almost think seeing the faces and choreography and performance are a kind of distraction. It's the opposite of opera where I really need all the cues to understand what is going on. It is like an opera that is goes through so many moods, and is long. Sitting in the seat of a live performance guarantees you will sit through the whole thing. At home I stop it many times to do things for my daughter who is 4.
Injecting the hip hop aesthetic into the Revolutionary War is perfect, it is a time when putting yourself forward boldly will pay off, and you can socially advance through heroism in war.
I love the line, "when push comes to shove/ I will send a fully armed battalion/ to remind you of my love."
I listened to the soundtrack while I worked overnight at Amazon, lifting heavy packages and sorting them so we could put them in vans to send out to people's houses. Without that job, I might never have gotten through the whole thing. When I do dishes, I usually stop much earlier. Imagine me crying at the sadness of various aspects in the second half of the show, in the early hours of the morning, working away. I listened through all the amazing moods from youthful ambition to love to marriage to society to douls to affairs, to politics, to building a country.
The first thing added, not in the sound track, and probably developed along the way in collaboration was to have Hercules Mulligan be the flower girl. The Wiki has 455 entries.
My daughter didn't like the dress colors in "Satisfied". Did you know there were tracks that have their own entry on Wikipedia? She was telling me I was singing too loud. I bellow through this stuff, and she can't stand it. I get goose bumps.
The French also like hip hop music, so it's cool there is an early French revolutionary as well. Lafayette's full name is Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette. "He became convinced that the American revolutionary cause was noble, and he traveled to the New World seeking glory in it."
Thomas Jefferson is a gas. Cabinet meeting as a rap off is great!
Christopher Jackson sings that song about letting go of power so well.
This version was done in 2016. In a way I'd like the track the success of this show the way you track a hurricane. It's 2020 now and we're in the midst of a world changing pandemic. Many lives have been changed or lost. I was just reading that a Buddhist author lost her brother to Covid-19. You can feel her grief through the interview.
It's no small thing that one of my best friends from high school was named Hamilton. He had a massive heart attack and passed away 6 months ago. Reading his wife's grief on facebook is heartbreaking. Thinking about his children and his brothers and his parents in their grief is heartbreaking. My friend was a true American like Hamilton, and had the same last name. I don't think there was a known connection to him, but you know, we can all trace our genes through Hamilton of the Broadway Show (and we're all Skywalkers too).
What a cast:
Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton
Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr
Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton
Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson
Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler
Jonathan Groff as King George III
Christopher Jackson as George Washington
Jasmine Cephas Jones as Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds
Okieriete Onaodowan as Hercules Mulligan and James Madison
Anthony Ramos as John Laurens and Philip Hamilton
Reading Lists:
Left Bank Bookstore
Publishing Conglomerate
Danvers Library (Danvers Massachusetts)
Kids List
Adam Gopnik
Wikipedia
I'm listening to the audio book of the biography of Hamilton. Of course a Broadway play is more about mythmaking and drama than history, so to compare the two is absurd. The Broadway show will not be historically accurate.
Somehow a hip hop Broadway show about a founding father is amazing in the hands of Lin-Manuel Miranda. I'm looking forward to In The Heights too. I haven't mustered the attention to listen to the whole thing, but some like that more than Hamilton. Outside how enjoyable this show is, America loves someone who has become fabulously wealthy. He's become a superstar. What you can do in America. Create perhaps the best Broadway show of all time, and you don't need to get parts in movies, you make them for yourself. The perfect self made man.
Of course nobody does anything in a vacuum. He's had some help, and acts in a show with many others. One thing to notice is that the founding fathers are minorities! It's a cool way to rewrite the myths, to include everyone.
The first thing I notice about the movie, I watch at 7am the day it comes out on Disney Plus, is that it's slower than the soundtrack. Where I have to rush to sing along with the soundtrack, I have to slow down.
The audience is a big help, they laugh at the bursar joke. They love the "The Schuyler Sisters" sass.
Seeing it is different in many ways. The words are so evocative, I almost think seeing the faces and choreography and performance are a kind of distraction. It's the opposite of opera where I really need all the cues to understand what is going on. It is like an opera that is goes through so many moods, and is long. Sitting in the seat of a live performance guarantees you will sit through the whole thing. At home I stop it many times to do things for my daughter who is 4.
Injecting the hip hop aesthetic into the Revolutionary War is perfect, it is a time when putting yourself forward boldly will pay off, and you can socially advance through heroism in war.
I love the line, "when push comes to shove/ I will send a fully armed battalion/ to remind you of my love."
I listened to the soundtrack while I worked overnight at Amazon, lifting heavy packages and sorting them so we could put them in vans to send out to people's houses. Without that job, I might never have gotten through the whole thing. When I do dishes, I usually stop much earlier. Imagine me crying at the sadness of various aspects in the second half of the show, in the early hours of the morning, working away. I listened through all the amazing moods from youthful ambition to love to marriage to society to douls to affairs, to politics, to building a country.
The first thing added, not in the sound track, and probably developed along the way in collaboration was to have Hercules Mulligan be the flower girl. The Wiki has 455 entries.
My daughter didn't like the dress colors in "Satisfied". Did you know there were tracks that have their own entry on Wikipedia? She was telling me I was singing too loud. I bellow through this stuff, and she can't stand it. I get goose bumps.
The French also like hip hop music, so it's cool there is an early French revolutionary as well. Lafayette's full name is Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette. "He became convinced that the American revolutionary cause was noble, and he traveled to the New World seeking glory in it."
Thomas Jefferson is a gas. Cabinet meeting as a rap off is great!
Christopher Jackson sings that song about letting go of power so well.
This version was done in 2016. In a way I'd like the track the success of this show the way you track a hurricane. It's 2020 now and we're in the midst of a world changing pandemic. Many lives have been changed or lost. I was just reading that a Buddhist author lost her brother to Covid-19. You can feel her grief through the interview.
It's no small thing that one of my best friends from high school was named Hamilton. He had a massive heart attack and passed away 6 months ago. Reading his wife's grief on facebook is heartbreaking. Thinking about his children and his brothers and his parents in their grief is heartbreaking. My friend was a true American like Hamilton, and had the same last name. I don't think there was a known connection to him, but you know, we can all trace our genes through Hamilton of the Broadway Show (and we're all Skywalkers too).
What a cast:
Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton
Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr
Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton
Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson
Renée Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schuyler
Jonathan Groff as King George III
Christopher Jackson as George Washington
Jasmine Cephas Jones as Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds
Okieriete Onaodowan as Hercules Mulligan and James Madison
Anthony Ramos as John Laurens and Philip Hamilton
Reading Lists:
Left Bank Bookstore
Publishing Conglomerate
Danvers Library (Danvers Massachusetts)
Kids List
Adam Gopnik
Wikipedia
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