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Old 07-09-2020, 12:16 AM  
Mephistopheles Janx Mephistopheles Janx is offline
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Hamilton

Currently out on Disney+. The film is performed my the original cast and was recorded in 2016. Has anyone here watched it? Thoughts?

I think that this is going to open a door for Broadway to make itself more accessible to the masses. How they took a stage production, put it to film, and still having the end product feel like a stage performance was outstanding to me.

As for the musical itself... I thought LaFayette/Jefferson stole the show. The dude was phenomenal in both roles and I hope he gets more opportunities in he future. The guy, who as my wife pointed out is apparently from Glee, was AMAZING as King George.

I found that Miranda's rapping and singing was the least memorable of the main cast. His story telling abilities, though, outweigh his deficiencies as a performer and I found his use of rap, among several others styles, to tell the story of Alexander Hamilton to be inspired.

I watched an interview he did where he speaks to how Hamilton's writing prowess has lead there to be more documents written by him than any other founding father. Rap has more words per measure than any other genre of music and he chose it so he would be able to fit in so much more information to tell a more complete story.

It was excellent and not at all preachy as you might expect from a main cast that is 87% POC on the subject of the slave owning forefathers.
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Old 09-22-2020, 09:58 AM   #61
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Just happened to stumble onto this little song that got cut from the play (truncated to a couple lines in The Reynolds Pamphlet, more accurately).



Couple of good lines in there - "You're the only enemy you ever seem to lose to" really needed to be in there somehow, that's an excellent summation of Hamilton as a historical figure really.

Curious if Miranda just couldn't make the story flow off it.
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Old 09-22-2020, 07:48 PM   #62
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It’s entirely rap with varying degrees of speed.
No it isn't.
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Old 09-23-2020, 03:38 AM   #63
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I enjoyed the production. Very entertaining..
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Old 01-20-2022, 08:52 PM   #64
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An insult to the Founding Fathers.
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Old 01-21-2022, 08:10 AM   #65
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My daughter was a huge fan so I took her to see it on Broadway back in 2018. Great father/daughter trip. Went to The Met, MOMA, saw Book of Mormon as well (for the fifth time), enjoyed restaurants all over Manhattan, did some sight-seeing; good times. Nostalgia kicking in...
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