Hamilton

[Mik]

..is on Disney streaming. Well worth paying for a month. Absolute brilliance.

[Aqua Letifer]

[Ignorance]Here's my problem with most musicals: there are many, many exceptions to this, but as a general rule, I don't find the songs clever. At all. The rhyme scheme is so obvious and the way they're sung a lot of the time—with so much damn emphasis—it's like the theatre equivalent of the not-as-funny-as-he-thinks bar buddy who repeats his joke's punchline because it didn't land the first time. It's grating as shit.[/Ignorance]

I wish DivaDeb were still around. I'm sure I'm missing a lot.

[Mik]

OMG no. See this if you can.

[Rainman]

Mik, is this different than the Broadway production?
I thought the Broadway musical was biased, they kill Trump, something like that.

Why do you recommend it? Plot, characters, quality of the songs, etc.?

[Mik]

@Rainman

All of the above. It in fact is the original Broadway cast.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in Hamilton:

OMG no. See this if you can.

Hamilton (mostly) gets a pass in my book. I don't like Lin-Manuel Miranda very much, but he's a damn savant and that's undeniable.

I just mean generally.

[Mik]

The rap battle between Hamilton and Jefferson alone is worth the price of admission. There’s just never been anything that encompassed history and culture like this show.

[jon-nyc]

I suppose I need to see it one of these years

[LuFins Dad]

I thought we weren’t allowed to watch actors of one race play characters of another? Especially actual historical figures?

[George K]

@LuFins-Dad said in Hamilton:

I thought we weren’t allowed to watch actors of one race play characters of another? Especially actual historical figures?

Bravo!

[taiwan_girl]

I really like musicals. Maybe I was born about 30 or 40 years too late, past the "golden" musical age.

In fact, I just received a couple of days ago a recommendation from Amazon to buy a 5 DVD set of the Golden Age of Musicals for only USD$12!!!

[Copper]

@LuFins-Dad said in Hamilton:

I thought we weren’t allowed to watch actors of one race play characters of another? Especially actual historical figures?

I believe the skin color has been approved for general audiences

[Loki]

Mik is on point. This musical is different. The next generation is firmly in place. Hamilton is brilliant, although I did find The Book of Mormon more entertaining.

Hamilton is a must see.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Loki said in Hamilton:

Mik is on point. This musical is different. The next generation is firmly in place. Hamilton is brilliant, although I did find The Book of Mormon more entertaining.

Hamilton is a must see.

Hamilton is a must-see as soon as Sir Gawain becomes a must-read.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

Miranda might be our only hope. Instead of destroying all the statues, we might be able to sneak by just by giving them wider noses.

[George K]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hamilton-is-the-very-model-of-a-modern-fast-paced-musical/

[Mik]

You should see Aida or Turandot. 45 minute intermissions, two apiece.

[Copper]

@George-K said in Hamilton:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_(musical)

Rutgers University professor Lyra Monteiro criticized the show's multi-ethnic casting as obscuring a complete lack of identifiable enslaved or free persons of color as characters in the show.[186] Monteiro identified other commentators, such as Ishmael Reed, who criticized the show for making Hamilton and other historical personages appear more progressive on racial injustice than they really were.[186] According to Reed, "[Hamilton's] reputation has been shored up as an abolitionist and someone who was opposed to slavery," which Reed stated was untrue.

Wokeness in the service of a dead white slave-owner, evil

[Mik]

I'm very happy that Sondheim's (whom I love dearly) Company (which I also love dearly) has a faster song.