Hamilton: Surprisingly Not Overrated!

[rachelmanija]

Lin Manuel Miranda performing the opening number of Hamilton - his history geekiness is so endearing.

The whole thing on Spotify for free.

I am slowly listening to this. It's very dense, especially since I'm not familiar with that period of history other than reading Gore Vidal's Burr and getting briefly obsessed with the duel and the question of who shot first (Burr. Also, Hamilton's shot went wild because he'd been hit, not because he deliberately fired into the air, give me a break) and I just have the album - there doesn't seem to be a video available. It's pretty great though. If you like Sondheim, you would like this. I'd say listen to the first three tracks (through "My Shot") and see if you like it. I love the way it combines hiphop with Broadway, both lyrically and musically. It's really clever and catchy.

Comments

[rosefox]

There's no film version of the show (yet), but the 60 Minutes pieces on the show have a lot of clips, if you want to get a sense of the visuals:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hamilton-broadway-musical-60-minutes-charlie-rose-2/

And here's ten minutes of B-roll footage (shh) from those pieces:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f5xrgi1dubiv0a3/Hamilton%20Musical%20-%20B-Roll%20Video.mp4?dl=0

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[rmc28]

Thank you for sharing these. (Now I *really* want to see it performed ... holding on for it reaching London eventually)

[rosefox]

A London production has been announced! For 2017, I think.