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I’m a FAN of Star Trek, not that stupid thing that has Amanda Grayson die instead of accompanying Sarek to the Babel Conference.
Tell them to make it again, and this time, use the REAL Spock and Kirk and Scotty, and Checkhov, and Uhura.
And Sarek.
Real time lyric updates during an intense rap to call out an audience member filming the show. Yowza!
I’ll be seeing Hamilton in NYC on Thursday night: second time, but my first Broadway show. Can. Not. Wait.
Wow! That took some serious brainpower on Miranda’s part…not that we didn’t already know he had the goods. 
Some historians aren’t fans of the show: Historians irked by musical 'Hamilton' escalate their duel | KOMO
What a bunch of morons.
My favorite is this:
How dare Miranda bamboozle me into thinking that Thomas Jefferson was black! Next she’ll be telling us that the Founding Fathers didn’t rap.
I’ve just started Chernow’s book, and it is made very clear that Hamilton’s mother (and about every white person on the island) owned slaves. And that Hamilton as a kid was involved in the slave trade.
It’s mentioned in the very first song.
Although it isn’t touched on much throughout the rest of the play. And Hamilton is aligned with John Laurens in the first act who is mostly talking about abolishing slavery. I wasn’t really expecting the play to be precisely historically accurate, but I can see possible room to include some additional lines if it is ever revised. I like the idea of the companion exhibit to flesh out the complex lives of the founding fathers.
The criticism - and I read an article about the play in the Times a while ago - seems to be around them objecting to Miranda not condemning Hamilton for not having opinions from the next century, and perhaps for compromising.
There are plenty of inaccuracies for the sake of drama. My favorite that the musical makes Angelica selflessly give up Hamilton for Eliza. Actually she was already married. In the musical she gets married later.
Somebody’s parents must’ve liked the guy: Hamilton Hamilton - Wikipedia
We saw the touring production here in Columbus a few weeks ago. I have never read the book nor had I ever heard a song from the broadway production before seeing Hamilton in person - I knew the hype and my wife had seeing Hamilton on her bucket list so I got tickets (Orchestra, Left Center, 3rd Row. It only cost a mortgage payment and my youngest child) I was completely and totally blown away. I am not a regular patron of musicals and Broadway-type shows. Hamilton is beyond any doubt in my mind the greatest performance of any type that I have ever seen in my life. I have attended the ballet at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow twice, once with Putin in attendance. I have seen a handful of theatrical performances over the years including Wicked, Phantom, The Nutcracker, The Producers, etc. I have seen some of the legendary musical performances/tours of bands/artists. Nothing, and I mean nothing I have seen in the category of performance arts prior to Hamilton compared. My wife jokes that I’m now a Hamilton Fan Boy and she is right. I can’t get the music out of my head and I regularly find myself replaying in my memory some of the scenes (the use of the concentric rotating circular sections of the stage was genius!). I purchased the soundtrack and I play it all the time around the house. I sincerely hope the rumors of a DVD of the theater performance does come to market as I’d buy it immediately.
RISE UP!!!
MeanJoe
Okay, to be honest, nowadays when someone mentions Aaron Burr, even not in the context of the musical, I’m picturing this and not this.
Something tells me you’re ready for this polka.
(It’s been posted earlier in the thread, but this way is easier than making you go look for it.)
Can anyone ever truly be ready for this? LOL - Thanks!
'Tis genius! Thanks, kaylasdad.
I saw Hamilton last night, and I’m glad I didn’t listen to the polka before I did, or else I would have had Weird Al in my head the whole time.
As good as I expected, by the way. In the top 4 of the many, many musicals I’ve seen stretching back from the original Man of La Mancha.
Just listened to it again. Love it! I think the bullet-ricochet noises are my favorite bit.
Miranda’s performance at the White House of an early version of a song from the musical, and the Obamas’ later contact with him, are mentioned in Michelle Obama’s new memoir, Becoming. There’s no index in the book, but you might want to take a look at pp. 358 and 415 in the first edition. Good stuff.
After years of waiting I finally saw Hamilton last night.
Several times during the perfromance I caught myself involuntarily shaking my head and verbalizing “wow”.
I’ve never been so entertained in my life.
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My wife and I saw it last Thursday, on Broadway.
We thought it was fantastic, even though it was absurdly expensive.
Now we need to get the soundtrack…
I was going to bump, but looks like I don’t need to.
My daughter Anya turns 14 today. She has been a gigantic fan of Hamilton since it came out. Posters, books, hoodies, soundtrack memorized, etc. It sparked her interest in musical theater.
Tonight, she is opening her gift: clandestinely-bought tickets to Hamilton. So, if you hear a giant scream around 7pm Hawaii time, do not be alarmed.
We’ll be seeing it in London during our summer vacation.
Nitpick: You have to get the CAST RECORDING.
Movies have “soundtracks.” Stage musicals have “cast recordings.”
This is a big bug with me, and millions of other stage musical devotees.
