Hamilton - Show of the Week #42
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
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Show of the Week is the weekly segment where I'll babble about what I'm listening to this week. You should listen along, too!
Hamilton
Music, Lyrics, & Book by Lin-Manuel Miranda
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One of my favourite Easter eggs is that everything bad that happens to Hamilton and everyone else takes place after he says Macbeth in Take a Break
Emily Coates you're like the second person i've ever see point this out. i love that lil easter egg
Lin Manuel Miranda has honestly change the modern musical and everything that goes with it. Hamilton is seriously a game changer and I can not wait to see this new type of art just be birthed and metamorphisize into something amazing and I have so much faith with this generation of performers and writers. Hamilton just leaves you inspired to do what you love and put all of yourself in the thing you believe in and love and that's so beautiful. I saw hamilton on my 16th birthday last month it was my present and my first Broadway show ever. I am so glad it's one of lins shows. In the heights spoke to me on a very deep level(second generation Hispanic) and made me really excited about acting and know that there is a role for someone like me. I'm just amazed at everything Lin does and really hope he doesn't stop. He is one of our brightest modern artist. I'm rambling but I love the video I look forward to these every week! please keep them going there aren't many Broadway obsessed vloggers out there (at least ones that are intresting and give fresh commentary) hope you have a great day musical mash guy
Lin Manuel Miranda has done in Hamilton what Shakespeare did in his history plays. He took the history and made it relevant and put it in the language on the people. Hamilton also breathed life into Broadway and musicals, making people who were previously opposed to them interested. It is absolutely a game-changer and I cannot wait to see and hear the amazing works of art that this phenomenon has inspired.
This everything I've wanted to say about Hamilton but couldn't bc I was fangirling all over the place. Idk, I think it it was eloquent.
same oh my god
elegant and eloquent :D
candywrapper14 but, the elephant is in the room
The bad thing about Hamilton is that you can't just listen to one song. You have to listen to it all. I guess it's not that much of a problem. At least for me. :)
Every time I listen to the album I find another song/line that makes me fall even harder for the show.
Your review perfectly reflects the way I feel about it.
I just finished listening, and it was amazing. I'm not a hip hop or rap fan, but this transcends the style of music. I hope I get a chance to see it performed someday. Thank you for giving me the impetus to listen to it.
I listened to this because you told me to, and thank you so much for that.
I'm Scottish, I have family by the name of Hamilton, and that is the only connection I have here - I don't know the history. I had half an idea that he might be a president / vice-president and I remembered reading in a cracked article that he was a dueller, but that might have been someone else.
So I'm not invested in the history, but that doesn't matter - I've been a huge fan of musicals since the Sound of Music when I was 5, and this is like nothing I've heard before, but like everything too. As you say, there are a hundred references throughout it that ground it in a lot of other things (the first one I noticed was the phrase "you've got to be carefully taught").
But it sounds so different, so new. Exciting and lively. I was singing along to songs on the first time I was hearing them. I.. there are rap battles.
And The story... well, I'm just ruined.
Turns out I have no idea how to say what I want to say about it. I need like 12,000 words and a whole new vocabulary.
So, thanks for getting me to listen to this. Now brb while I force my husband to listen to the entire thing too.
Forgiveness... can you imagine?
Oh I can't wait to see you again. It's only a matter of time.
Ma, I'm so sorry for forgetting what you taught me.
Eliza! My love... take your time. I'll see you on the other side.
Shhhhh (from both Stay Alive (Reprise) and Best of Wives and Best of Women)
My father wasn't around, I swear that I'll be around for you.
Now I'm the villain in your history. I was too young and blind to see.
And when you're gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?
Philip, you would like it uptown, it's quiet uptown.
My life is going to be fine cuz Eliza's in it
After all that, and that last one? That's what's destroying me.
Hamilton seems so approachable! like you can grab a beer with it :)
If he was still alive.... He died over 200 years ago.
I have a question for you musical theater experts. In Act I of Hamilton, we have a startling flashback. We go from Angelica introducing Hamilton to Eliza, as seen by Eliza ("Helpless"), to Angelica toasting the groom and bride ("Satisfied") - then, in the middle of the song, "rewind": we go back to their original meeting, but this time as seen by Angelica.
My question is: is this the first time in musical theater history that this storytelling device, flashing back to a part of the story we've already seen, is used?
I can think of a few musicals which flash back to a time before the start of the story, but none revisiting a scene of the actual show.
Apologies if my English isn't the clearest. I would love to hear your thoughts.
I remember when Wicked was the "big musical" and the "game changer" show of the century (like the new phantom or rent) but then Lin came and blew it all out of the water. Hamilton, in my opinion, is the best musical this world has seen. Nothing can compare to it, honestly.
You embodied everything I felt about this musical. It has changed the game. Nothing coming out of Broadway this year will touch it, I'm sure.
Mr. Mash,
Thanks to you, I have been listening to Hamilton for 2 whole months and I think I can proudly say that I have an obsession. The only word I can use to describe Hamilton is "genius". Thank you, Mr. Mash (and Lin-Manuel Miranda) for introducing me to the life and times of Mr. Alexander Hamilton. Thank you.
Your Obedient Servant,
M. Hayes
Hamilton = genius
Just rewatched this show; since seeing this video in September I joined the legion of Hamilton fans.
Best part. I capped of a holiday in NYC with paying a exorbitant amount of money to get a ticket to see the actual show when Lin-Manuel Miranda was still performing.
All I can say is if you the the soundtrack is awesome, the show itself is awesome-squared.
God, all your words just agghhh hamilton is the first musical I ever really got into and honestly itss probably changed my life. I love it soo much, its so well crafted AND I UST LOOOOOVEEEE ITTTT
I have been listening to this musical and I can't seem to stop. It's been over a month since a song came across my pandora and I looked into it and bought the soundtrack. I don't know that I want help to stop because holy cow every time you hear it it sounds better.
Too quote Devon Sawa in the family classic Casper...”Can I keep you?” Swoon you are so adoreable! Love your videos.
I love the Macbeth referance in take a break. I got so excited when I found it!
Are you saying you realized three metaphorical contexts at the exact same time?
It´s really fun to see someone who often talks about musicals and seems to know what they´re talking about struggle what he wants to say just because the subject is so hard to define ... but that´s excactelly how i felt when i first listened to the soundtrack.... and i´m so obsessed about it that everytime you say: It´s a work of genious, i have to think: I couldn´t undo it if i tried ... and i tried
He's fangirling so hard I can't 😂
When I watch this first I was reluctant to like it.. Since then I forced myself to sit through the whole soundtrack, and I am now totally in love it!!! ❤️❤️❤️
You in this video is like a remake of me after I listened to the soundtrack six months ago. Yes, I'm still as obsessed as ever.
I just discovered your channel this week and have liked and subscribe to quite a few of the videos. Hamilton is a show about which I am passionate. So I looked up your video on Hamilton. You did a marvelous, eloquent job of expressing my feelings about the show. I never have gotten past my jaw-dropping. Thank you so much!
THIS MUSICAL IS AMAZING! It's nearly flawless. The only thing I would change it that they didn't take out "Dear Theodosia Reprise". We don't get the idea that Theodosia has died and it's easily skipped over when the only mention is "this man will not make an orphan of my daughter" in "the world was wide enough". But besides that, it's magical and beautiful and just insane
I'm so excited that Hamilton is going to come to Chicago. Can't wait to see it.
I got the soundtrack for Christmas and I'm loving it, my mom hates it but it's easily became one of my favorite musicals of all time
Exact same situation!
you should do a show of the week on in the heights!
I didn't think I'd like Hamilton when I first heard about it... I don't (generally) listen to hip hop and I'm not American, so the history lesson isn't as relevant to me. And then... Well, first I got caught up in the few videos there are - the choreography, the costumes and the stage are wonderful. I then fell in love with the passion, both from the creators' and the fans' side. Suddenly I realized I absolutely love the music too. I agree with you, Hamilton truly is a work of genious.
And I very much look up to you for doing a review that is so uncloudedly positive, and yet seems controlled and objective and smart. You're great!!
I just weeped because I love it so much, and am happy you feel the same.
I live in the uk, so I can't go along with the story to well because I don't know about american history, but I still loved it
I have been waiting sooooo long for this!!!
Alex Ross says that Mozart achieved a "golden mean" with his music. By that he means that Mozart was able to appeal to seasoned art lovers and the uninitiated at the same time. Mr. Miranda has achieved the same thing.
I love this channel it's pretty awesome!
After listening to this musical and almost nothing else for two month I have found a flaw. I'm astonished that it exists at all. There should have been 47 songs. Laurens needed his own intro song worse than anyone other than Hamilton. From the musical we don't know that he is a southern child of a slave owner. Like many young slave owners he knew it was wrong. He wasn't willing to see slavery as a necessary negative. The first 40 in his black battalion would have been men who would have left his father's rice plantation to work on his plantation when he was ready. I think it's an important part of the period that shouldn't have been overlooked.
+hena1937 I think it that case it wouldn't have furthered the story. It would just be an anecdote...because it was history and a part of who laurens is but it doesn't change his relationship to Hamilton in any way...so it would just be filler.
+hena1937 He does have a song. It's called Lauren's interlude. It's not on the album though.
its possible that that info was part of a cut song or changed lyric? might be on the upcoming album!
I don't think it would just be filler. Both of them were abolitionists. His perspective is more intense and interesting because he is Southern. This aspect is ignored. I wonder how different history would have been if a great economist and his Southern abolitionist friend had not died before their time.
It's definitely not stressed that he is Soulthern but his Abolitionist beliefs seemed to be portrayed as his second rap he takes the time to mention slavery and his opposition (until those in bondage have the same fight as you and me) and the mention in Yorktown (we will never be free until we end slavery) even his line in My Shot...
Hamilton isnt genius. its PURE genius.
I always think it is a mistake that you are hesitant to break down a musical and discuss what the small things you're able to draw out from it.
There are so few accessible places for people to discuss and explore musicals theatre. That being said it is your show so take my view as a non-creator with a grain of salt
Thanks for introducing this show to me
+Brent Waddington I totally feel ya. Show of the Week started as a kind of "book club" idea for musicals: "Let's all listen to this thing together!" But it's still sort of missing the: "and now let's all talk about this thing together."
BUT NEVER FEAR! I've got some ideas in the works...watch this space... 😜
+Musical Theatre Mash
I'd definitely be down for donating to the Patreon if there was a regular Google hangout where we discussed a given show
I JUST LISTENED TO THIS WHERE HAVE I BEEN?!
You mean a painting by John Trumble?
Courtney Harrington A full on rumble
I absolutely love Hamilton!!!!
Anyone else actually paused the video and went to listen to the album on spotify? I assume I'm the only one who hasn't heard it yet.
I did
+Vitor Lee I am currently listening to it and have the video paused. I'm enjoying it so far!
Jojo Scotia sooooooo did you become hamtrash
Hamilton was my first and I thank it for slowly dragging me into a ditch and now I'm becoming a musical freak. :) (If I offended you, I'm sorry)
Children of Eden
How can one express their thoughts this way?
Have you done a review of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812? I believe you would enjoy this show as well.
"My Shot" reference in the background. :'
I would've loved to have seen Hamilton but it's IMPOSSIBLE to get tickets - literally IMPOSSIBLE!!! I tried to get tickets for August 4th, 2018 and I COULDN'T!! It was booked well over a year in advance! So your choice if you want to see Hamilton is to try to get the rush tickets, which might not work, book a LOOOONNNGGG time in advance, or wait until the Hamilton craze dies down. Good luck!
I have such an insane crush on this guy :'D
*6 years
My one gripe with Hamilton - and yes this may just be a huge nitpick - is that Miranda completely left out the real life Hamilton's biggest and most interesting character flaw - that being that the dude was a huge, and arguably most vocal, elitist of any of the founding fathers despite coming from the most under privileged background of any of the founding fathers. I know a musical can focus on so much but it just seems a shame that this aspect of hamilton's character was so completely left out of the musical altogether.
I would LOVE to hear your opinion on the new School of Rock musical. There are some clips of it on broadway.com's channel. It looks promising! Andrew Lloyd Weber + Julian Fellowes! Also, I want to know more about YOU! Could you maybe make an "About Me" video? I would love to hear where you grew up, how you discovered your love for theatre, where you went to school...
It's hard trying to be a musical theater fan in Finland, we mostly get just Mamma Mia! revivals year after year, so thanks a lot for bringing these shows to my attention and with interesting commentary. The album sounds great, something to dig into for at least weeks, a lot went straight over my head and I only got 2 references to rap songs on the first listening. Is it one of the first big hip hop musicals? It seems to me that Hamilton couldn't have been done 10-15 years ago when hip hop was still viewed (a little) as youth/counterculture? Are there more good musicals that utilize hip hop music?
this is one of the first big hip hop musicals. check rap genius for annotated lyrics that detail the historical and hip hop references
+krupu Lin had another show back in 2008 that was hip-hop/Latin inspired. Treat yourself to "In the Heights."It won four Tonys and a Grammy, and (in my opinion) it is _just_ as good as Hamilton!
+Alana D Thanks! Found the Tony performance on RUclips, sadly it's not on Spotify. I had no idea Hamilton was created and starred by this one guy, he looks to be a genius! edit: ...lol of course, on the video Mr. Theatre Mash did say Lin-Manuel Miranda is a genius.
+Alana D yes!! no one seems to know about that musical, it's just as good as Hamilton!!! ☺
WANNA TALK ABOUT GENIUS SHOWS THAN DO RAGTIME AS YOUR SHOW OF THE WEEK ... TALK ABOUT MOVING...
i knew it i K N E W it
I hate to be the person to say this, but Hamilton is overrated. Not incredibly so, it is a wonderful creation. But there were so many other musicals that deserved recognition (especially at the 2016 tonys) Tuck Everlasting , Waitress, School of Rock, The Color Purple. And BRIGHT STAR! That show means the worlddd to me and almost nobody ever gives it recognition. It conveys sadness and heartbreak and love in a way I've yet to see on Broadway.
Please do a miscast Angelica Schuyler!!
Aaron Burr made five accounts to dislike this
Alright it's been a year has anyone found Hamilton at least slightly annoying yet
All of this is right. I still don't care for Hamilton. I have tried--just not for me.
which is better Evita or Hamilton? @musicaltheatremash
As musicals or as political figures?
+Musical Theatre Mash musicals
+Julianna Goodwin Hamilton. But they're difficult to compare. They're both products of different times in musical theatre history and just about the only thing they have in common is that they're musicals about historical fixtures.
+Musical Theatre Mash okay.
I like Hamilton but I don't think that it's the best musical ever made. To be honest it's kind of overrated but I'd still listen to the songs and I'll probably see it (if I ever have the money)
I DISAPPROVE!
I didnt really think Hamilton was that amazing. Like yes its new and has very talented actors, singers, and dancers but I found it honestly kind of boring. I know he took a lot of care to right it but it was just too many words. Also Hamilton and all those people were real people who did despicable things so maybe its just harder to feel like they're characters in a story. I just don't get the following but maybe its just not for me
Honestly I listened to the album and I don't see the big deal. It's not for me.
+WEIRD Totally cool! People like different things - that's the fun of being human. 😊
Given all the hype about this show, I wish I could agree with you. Sorry, no.I found it well-written but not the groundbreaking masterpiece everyone says it is. Miranda is good, but let's be real here: he's no Sondheim. He slaps together a number of genres, and everyone goes, Oooo - but cut through it all and it's a pretty basic Broadway score, just kitted out with more modern stylings. I hesitate to say this, but it's a gimmicky show, and the gimmick wears out pretty fast.
I know, I know, huge hit, sold out for the next couple of centuries, gonna make a ton of cash. Know what? So did CATS.
I agree. I like the score, I like the show, but for me it is not a groundbreaking masterpiece. It is definitely new, but it is not amazing, not a show that will stay with me for the rest of my life, such as A Chorus Line or Into the Woods.
It might also have to do with the fact that I'm not American, that I did not really know anything about the American civil war, about Alexander Hamilton himself (I did not know about the Reynolds Pamphlet or that he was shot), so it did not really bring back memories for me, it did not resonate with me.
The hype (especially when it comes to teenage girls) seriously reminds me of Wicked, and that might not be a compliment.
Again, good show, but for me, it's not a masterpiece.
(Also, I love your little jab at Cats. I always try to find at least one good thing about every show I listen to, but I just can't when it comes to that one. I hate Cats with a passion).
It's awful.
Hamilton one of the worst shows I've ever heard. In the heights is worse