Hip-Hop and History: The Story Behind Hamilton (Theatre Documentary)
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The story of the hit musical that changed Broadway forever and brought the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda to the attention of legions of fans across the world. Featuring interviews with Miranda, as well as the cast and crew of Hamilton.
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Hamilton is one of my favorites (I got notified of a “like” on this comment. It was posted by my seven year old granddaughter. She will be over the moon! Thanks.
That’s so nice! I love Hamilton too!
RUclips knows me so well. You show me anything new about Hamilton and that's an instant watch lol.
I've watched the musical via released video. It, indeed, is a good musical!
Lots'a love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from tropical Philippines!
Lin did to Broadway what Alexander Hamilton did to America. He's truly the right man to have wrote this musical.
My daughter and I went to see this in London England to celebrate my BIRTH DAY in 2019 !!!
32:45 "it reminds us that this country almost didn't come together" 🥺🇺🇸 America is not a perfect country, but we're a great one! I'm proud to be an American and I'm proud of our progress thus far. Hamilton is one hell of a musical! I'm glad I got to witness something so epic! "Look around, look around! How lucky we are to be alive right now!"
I am also proud to be an American 🇺🇸
And it makes me think how " somebody" stated, and is followed by His Party, to fundamentally change America.
Great art! Which brings me to Spielberg's contention that the original West Side Story had but one real PR in it and he set out to change it.
Naive of me, but i thought they had just done an open casting call and the best voices/dancers, etc won the parts which i thought was brilliant. That's how is should be. I didn't realize it was deliberately cast that way. Everything in that show has so much meaning!
Bravo!
HE IS A GENIUS
This documentary is great! I wish they could lower down the level of the background music though.
Yes, it needs editing, both the volume of music and the fact that they keep showing Lafayette when they mean Jefferson and Milligan when they are talking about Madison.
We are lucky!!!!!!
Daughter is learning songs in Chorus class so we had to check it out. the word Cultural Appropriation came and quickly vanished as both daughter and i were in Awe. i had tears flowing, i was caught in the moment. reminds me of Robert Guillaume's Phantom of the Opera, i was a first opposed to the idea but there too i was in Awe!
Hamilton is American culture plain and simple. It's a combination of so many styles that cultural appropriation is a silly concept and contrary to the message of the play.
Encanto is what came next. 🎤
I am obsessed with Hamilton and now I wanna be part of Hamilton Broadway and the legacy but I have to wait until I am 20 year old
"he may become a director"
Tik Tik Boom says hi
I've got my Honolulu ticket..!!!!
Jesus Christ, Superstar was my first influence. I was blown away by the diversity of the cast! Yvonne Elliman being so striking, gentle and beautiful. I loved them arriving of a school bus with the cross tied to the top. Of course, when they left Ted Neely nor the cross were there.
I can remember, 10 years later, losing the role to a woman who had long, straight black hair. At least the revival saw the same director cast me as Mary. Was it because now I had hair extensions?
Not to come across of rude, but, Hamilton: An American. Is NOT a documentary, about a founding father of America: Alexander Hamilton.
Imagine if Lin never read the book💀
Grateful that, if he read the book, it has not ocurred to him( yet) to put hip hop to Das Kapital.
My thought exactly!
It was the best show in Rochester New York
Wesleyan. Is that the missing ingredient? 😍
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At that time was the place of one’s birth a hindrance to becoming president or were there other factors? His mentor was the first president and he was inspirational in Washington’s success.
Check "Wikipedia's "natural born citizen clause" page. It includes this under "history":
Constitutional ConventionEdit
The Constitution does not explain the meaning of "natural born".[34] On June 18, 1787, Alexander Hamilton submitted to the Convention a sketch of a plan of government.[35] The sketch provided for an executive "Governour" but had no eligibility requirements.[36] At the close of the Convention, Hamilton conveyed a paper to James Madison which he said delineated the Constitution that he wished had been proposed by the Convention; he had stated its principles during the deliberations. Max Farrand wrote that it "was not submitted to the Convention and has no further value than attaches to the personal opinions of Hamilton."[37] Article IX, section 1 of Hamilton's draft constitution provided: "No person shall be eligible to the office of President of the United States unless he be now a Citizen of one of the States, or hereafter be born a Citizen of the United States."[38]
yeah that was incorrect. Hamilton could have been president. usa didn't exist when he was born
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Hamilton could have been president, contrary to what one of the people in the doc said. The Constitution states: No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President. The key word being "at the time of the adoption of this constitution". Hamilton was an American citizen at the time of the ratification of the constitution.
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So many people talk about the veracity of Hamilton's views in slavery. Did he support it? Was he against it? But we need to understand that this is a theatrical piece and may have it's correct vs incorrect facts. It's like believing that Abraham Lincoln was really a vampire slayer! It's the little twists in the plot! :)
I think it is a interesting documentary, because all persons in there a outsider, but at some points not really accurate.
I read the book that the play was based on - all 720 pages. A little literary license was taken with the play but on the whole it was remarkably accurate, right down to Martha Washington naming her cat “Hamilton”. A lot of history to get down to three hours.
@@MrsEJV oh I don't mean the play, I mean the stuff the people talking about LMM
Evita is a Latino show
Hamilton? - One of the more obscure founding fathers? May I ask, who has not heard of Alexander Hamilton? Even the most ignorant person I know can at least name the figure on the ten dollar bill.
Obscure outside of America
@@chrish2277 LOL! Thanks.
@@robertgiles9124 I'm very grateful to the musical as I love this time in America and it's one more interesting personality to learn about. Fascinating man.
I think obscure because I know the name but don't think I knew anything about him except for being the treasurer. The musical made me look into history deeper
@@kelliegow9418 LOL, Kelly! I like to tease, I was just giving you a hard time, but my comment was eight months ago! EIGHT MONTHS! hahaha
When they talk about a musical to do with America's history in this way and they say it's gonna be only black and brown people... I say HELL YAH.... because I mean there weren't enough who got to participate in it in the past. (America would be nothing with out them... so u know what I mean. I'm referring to the government part of the making of america) There was ... what's his name. Like one (haha I'm sorry... Douglas? Shit. I can't remember) but he'll yah it should be that way. I think it's super important that they made it that way.
Idk man... cus when I hear or read the story of Hamilton it always makes my eyes well up a bit because it's such an important story in America's history. And the fact this was done the way it was makes my eyes go from welling up to having to wipe my eyes and have the sniffles. It's such a beautiful idea that they brought to the world in this way. This is to me important work.
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No disrespect intended and truly curious, if Hamilton the play has actors playing historic figures inaccurately, would that be considered cultural appropriation?
Not if it takes from white people. If it took from any other race, yes. Apparently you cannot be racist against the white race. It's not possible. 🙄
It's about present- day people telling a story.... the cast looks like our world today. That's why they don the clothing of the Era, but not the hairstyles or wigs (except for the king).
@@cicihoustonsudholt1452 Sounds like some mental gymnastics. I'd be willing to make a small wager that if it were white guys playing black historical figures- you'd be screaming "whitewash!" in the comments.
@@hw5091 nah, that's not my style. And I'm not making this up, it's present day Americans presenting a historical story. That's the premise. Why do you think Aaron Burr narrates to the audience throughout, and so often people break the 4th wall? "Who tells your story?"
@@cicihoustonsudholt1452 Broadway is a staunch liberal entity. As is Hollywood. Of course they would say that. It's an excuse. And you know that excuse does not go the other way around. If so, I would have eyes like saucers in astonishment if I saw it.
@Birte Pfleger if Hamilton was so happily married, why did he carry on an affair for a year? He was also blackmailed for it… lol
Not the first and not the last.
He was definitely a scum for that affair, but after his death, all of Eliza’s communication to her family and friends were about how considerate husband he was otherwise. So much so that on his deathbed, Eliza dragged a friend of Hamilton’s in the room and asked him to look after her children so she could die with her husband. She later on found peace and said since she has had such happy years with her husband, it was only fair that she now suffers without him. Given that she chose to remain unmarried and just salvage his legacy shows that he did at least some things right as a husband.
Don’t get me wrong. He was an absolute piece of shit for that affair, but given the kind of woman Eliza was, he definitely struck gold and was as happy with his wife as a man could be. Sad that he cheated on her and she still had enough love in her heart to spend an eternity waiting to die so she could be with her husband again!
Hamilton is FAR from an obscure Founding Father - unless, of course, you don’t read.
Most don't read. So definitely obscure.
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This cultural appropriation. Why is this ok if it's doing to whites? Alexander hamilton was not black or Latino. Iam of mixed race being Caucasian and Asian. But I find it offensive to race swap historical figures like this. It wasn't right for John Wayne to play ghengis khan, or whites to play native Americans in westerns. the woke cancel culture get upset if white actors do black face in comedies . But stufflike this is praised! The double standard of woke culture makes no sense. If they want to do something for diversity and people of color do a play that centers around events from thier culture . There is plenty of examples of contributions from every race and culture in this country. It in my opinion is just inappropriate to simply race swap people of color in historical roles that are meant to be white. In the the end it helps no one.
Why should race matter?
"Who tells your story. " There were more people of color influencing revolutionary times than you may think, they just aren't as documented or portrayed in our history lessons. Example one: although Hamilton's father was Scottish, his mother was native to the Caribbean.
Example 2: John Lawrens's first black battalion was a very real thing. 200,000 black people were living in the colonies not enslaved but as free people during the revolution. Ironically, the founding of our "free" nation started to make it harder to grant freedom to enslaved people, but it was more common in colonial days. The paintings you see are an incomplete snapshot of that world.
Example 3: long before the British colonized America, the Spanish were here; they just didn't take over the land in such an organized and dominant way.
Fully agree. Hey obama basically half white, let's have a white play him in a movie. HAHA, we all know how that would go down. And that would MORE historically accurate than this trash is throughout the play, with more than just Hamilton.
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Go sit down somewhere. If u watched the Broadway production u wouldn't care what color the actors were. It was incredibly done, that's all that matters
Hated it. Walked out the theatre after 20 minutes.
Boohoo u wasted your money. It was awesome
He’s mom is Mexican get it right
Bad Music! Bad History! Bigoted Broadway Blather!
Millions off ppl don't agree with u, go away😂