Let's goooooooo!!! Starting off this journey into the Hamilton Auxiliary Content with a BANG on this one!! If you have certain Hamilton content you'd like me to react to make sure to leave that in the comment section down below!! 👇🦁 Edit: Guys I know who Barack & Michelle are (*obviously*) 😭. What I said was "Is that Michelle's Mama?" not "Is that Michelle Obama?". The woman I was asking about was the woman sitting on the far side of Pres Obama (she's wearing white & black hence my "in the snazzy, not zebra print" comment). If you follow my cursor you'll see I even swirl it on her to specify who I meant.
I hope you check out the unreleased/different version songs from Hamilton: - First burn (the original version of burn) there's also a youtube video called "All deleted songs from Hamilton" that compiles the rest of the songs
Yes, thats Michelle’s mom, RIP. She moved into to White House to help care for their young daughters after the first election. Her dedication to the family is moving ❤
Ok, so you just saw/heard President Obama use his first name, and then you ho back to shortening it. It's almost like you want people to take your treatment of Lin-Manuel as an example and start calling LeBron James "Le." I know that you don't MEAN to disrespect him, but I think you do accidentally.
Also, hey, did you know that if you don't pause the video, and try to comment while it's playing, the advertisement deletes everything you typed? I mention this to explain why there's no 🏠 in my other comment...
His joke about Lin doing something about congress haunts. That's that piece of shit era that decided they'd block his court appointment leading to today's f'd court.
The first White House performance was an amazing display of cojones by LMM. He only had the one song done, and he debuted it in front of the President and a whole lot of big important people.
Lil fun fact but in the 2nd video the cast said that most of them were rly hungover that morning so it’s pretty funny to rewatch knowing that little bit of information lol
I was looking for this exact comment! Their description of it is so funny. That was a choice too lol. I've seen Diggs perform live and he was hungover (or drunk) then too. Makes them even more human, I think
In Dec. 2016, Obama’s last momth in office, he recorded the Hamildrop. He did One Last Time with Chris Jackson (George Washington) where he delivered Washington’s final address. Obama delivering Hamilton’s parts. The Obama White House was different-
@@AmariLeone it is incredibly dense & detailed- but he picked it up (supposedly) because it was the biggest book in the gift shop & he needed something for the plane/beach.
And there is an iconic photo of Lin reading the book on the beach. Always fun to hear Chernow talking about his point of view with how Lin approached him and all of this came to be.
I think it's really cool that you highlighted Alex Lacamoire. Composers don't always get their due. The entire musical, when analyzed as a cohesive composition is incredibly sophisticated.
and watching “One Last Time” knowing Obama was just about to leave office was honestly heart breaking 💔😢 you should find that one specifically and then do the mixtape version where obama joins Chris on the track
This was 2 visits. If a great deal of the music wasn't written they had no cast to bring. If my memory is working this was a Night Celebrating Poetry. The other bits I have heard, once again if the cells are working, was toward the end of Obama's Administration. I know he was moved greatly by Washington's final song, especially,
"I think the date on this said 2009" why does this feel like it was 100 years ago now 😭😭😭😭 yo if anybody got a time machine PLEASE let me use it, I promise not to paradox anything I just WANNA BE BACK THERE AGAIN.
It was final. This was just the FIRST TIME he performed it. He had performed from In The Heights at the White House and he got a call asking “they want you back, what do you have new?” 80% of the play wasnt written yet but THIS was finished.
A friend of mine was a fan of "In the Heights" and told me about Hamilton being in development about 5 or 6 years before it hit stage. Stage shows are in production and rehearsals for YEARS before anyone sees them. This is something I learned from watching the TV show "Smash," which is about a (fictional) musical about Marilyn Monroe's life. GUESS WHO ELSE IS IN IT?! Leslie Odom Jr aka Burr!
Woohoo more Hamilton content!! So Alex Lacamoire is a frequent collaborator with Lin, he’s an orchestrator and music director- so basically Lin wrote all the music, and Alex arranged it for the full band/orchestra. He also conducted the pit during the original run (that guy popping out at the bottom of the stage that they hand a Reynolds pamphlet to and who waves to the audience at the end- that’s him). He was also music director for Wicked, In The Heights, and Dear Evan Hansen 🏠
There is a CBS Morning video here on You Tube ('Hamilton Creators On Crafting a Revolutionary Musical") interviewing Lin, Alex, stage Director Thomas Kail and Choregrapher Andy Blankenbueler and they talk about their history working together both prior and through the development of the show. And yes, that was Michelle Obama's mother sitting next to her and the President. She lived with them at the WH when Obama was in office to help with their daughters. And I may be getting ahead of myself as I am typing this after just listening to you listen to the poerty jam performance: the lyrics you talk about not being in the final song in fact are, it's just that they are sung by the company not Burr. Okay, am now in the second part: the reason Lin had been invited to the first poetry jam was because of his writing and Tony award for "In the Heights" which I believe the Obamas saw on a trip to NY. So it's not a surprise to see the Hamilton cast brought in once that show also won a Tony --- not to mention as Obama noted, the bi-partisan appeal of the show! 🏛🏠
He also has pretty significant hearing loss, which blows my mind! I saw an interview once where he said being hearing impaired actually helped him focus on individual parts of music, which helped him become such a good arranger and orchestrator 🥰
Here is the key from this first cut: WHEN he raps ‘Alexander Hamilton’ for the first time the crowd at the White House laughs - BUT now in the play that moment gets the some of the Loudest cheers.
That part always gets me tbh. Before Hamilton exploded as a musical, no one would have expected a musical about the founding fathers to be so popular. But in hindsight after that, the laugh to cheers shift is so powerful and I love it.
@@Caterfree10 take me with you. When Obama was elected President I wrote in a journal I kept for my kid who was little then about how much hope I had and how monumental a time we were living in. And that he was gonna grow up in a better more equitable world. Now that kid is 18 and about to graduate high school and those feelings of hope and community are hard to come by and I feel like we’ve handed those “kids” a shitstorm future that they will have to sort out and that really sucks. Sorry to be such a downer
The idea that an 18th century white guy who was obsessed with creating a complex financial system could embody 21st century hip hop culture is both totally absurd and completely dead on correct.
Please please please watch Chris Jackson's performance of One Last Time at the White House! I think it is the best recorded performance he did of the song.
🏡 I've never left an emoji, but I wanted to tell you I have thoroughly enjoyed all your reaction videos (all 17 of them before this one) on Hamilton, the musical. Thank you for teaching me about rap. I had used rap songs in my 4th/5th grade classrooms before to teach poetry and the power of spoken word, but learned so much more thanks to you. I also appreciated your depth and breadth of knowledge about music, dance and staging, as well as your authentic emotional reactions - the laughter and the tears. Thank you for giving me all this time with my favorite musical! I saw it in 2017, and bought tickets for my family in 2020.... which got canceled. But, since we had to wait 18 months to bring our adult kids, by that time some of my grandchildren were grown enough to see it. We also watched it on the Disney channel, thank goodness. Again, thank you for letting me re-live all the emotions and reactions.
The actress who plays the bullet (Ariana Debose) won an Oscar a couple of years ago for West Side Story, and she's a Disney princess now. Every time you call her the Bullet I smile because she's maybe one of the most famous from that musical nowadays.
Fun fact if hamilton was written as a traditional musical instead of hip hop and rap, it would be about six hours. Also, les miserables started as a mix tape. You also have to listen to hamilton Polka by weird al.
Jesus Christ Superstar also started as a Concept Album. Actually, Hamilton reminds me quite a bit of JCS, except instead of making the Founding Fathers into rappers, Jesus and his disciples were hippies who sing rock music. And Judas as the narrator = Burr as the narrator.
Definitely agree about the Hamilton Polka 😂😍 There's even a really cute video of Lin Manuel Miranda and Jimmy Fallon (I think over video call during quarantine?) listening to the Weird Al Hamilton Polka for the first time! 😂😊
@@jcompton8507 now that you said this I can totally see the similarities! I've never seen the OG version of Jesus Christ Superstar but I absolutely looove the 2012 Live Arena Tour version with Melanie Chisholm as Mary Magdalene! 😊😍 (And they went with modern day hippies on that one 🤣)
Absolutely love that you threw in the LMM "just you wait" gif because I have lost count the number of times I've sung that while watching your Hamilton reactions!
It was originally going to be a mixtape, but this performance helped change his focus. Also, Alex Lacamoire graduated from New World School of the Arts in Miami (a very big deal). And he has partial hearing in one ear.
I live in DC, and I remember how viral this video went when the White House posted it the next day. EVERYONE was talking about it. (And I definitely do not work in politics!) Think about it - if you're going to workshop something combining history, politics, and music/art, there may not be a better test audience ANYWHERE! Hahahaha (Also, how bold does a person have to be to workshop a project involving the Founding Fathers rapping to a room full of famous artists, politicians, and the President of the US?!?)
Hi Amari! Seeing baby you in the clip made me feel like a proud Auntie! The rest of the cast were to the right off camera. Life was so much more stable in day to day life then, I wish we were back there. One Last Time here is brilliant!
"Hi Amari! Seeing baby you in the clip made me feel like a proud Auntie!" I am glad to hear it Queen Liz! I was quite tiny in that clip lol! "The rest of the cast were to the right off camera." Yeah I ended up seeing them towards the end of the video "Life was so much more stable in day to day life then, I wish we were back there." I was a kid at the time this happened so for me life was A LOTTTTT less complicated back then but yeah I totally get you lol. "One Last Time here is brilliant!" Coming soon 🔜👀
Not sure how common it is, but fun fact: Hadestown, another really incredible (and award-winning) musical, also started out as a concept album. Might be an 'I'd have two nickels...' thing, but still cool.
There are a bunch of musicals that started as concept albums -- for some of them, that was the main goal all along, with the album as an intermediate step, but for others, the musical came years (or even decades) later.
I love the first WH performance so damn much. He comes out and everything about how he presents it shows he knows he’s doing something INSANE. He’s like a magician telling the audience “now I know you think physics is real, but here’s what I’m about to do” and it sounds like a joke, then he FUCKING. DOES. IT. He connects the room’s reverence for the founders to the audacity and vision of hip hop. And as the man says, the world will never be the same.
Ok, now that I’ve officially made it through the whole video! So good to see the reaction - I also appreciate the frustration with the camera person (me too 😂). I think what President Obama was talking about was less about scoring a visit to the White House for the students but the “EduHam” program that sets up actual Hamilton shows just for students that comes with cast chats and curriculum. Thanks for it as always! 🏠
Also, Alex Lacamoire was his go-to guy as he helped him create and produce Lin's first musical In The Heights, which you should also react to. (Find the Broadway clips if you can before the movie to see the OG cast) Lin is like the Adam Sandler of Broadway in that he works with a lot of the same people, in all of his projects.
I saw " In the Heights" randomly as a sophomore in hs in 2012.(My sister's dance team went & my mom was a chaperone & they had extra tickets) so I honestly didn't know what I was going to see... and fell in LOVE ! I had already been in the theater magnet /choir/ hip hop team at my school so in didn't necessarily turn me on to musicals but I had never seen a musical like that. While I'm glad I got to see that one live. I SO wish it had been hamilton! 😂
"Lin is like the Adam Sandler of Broadway in that he works with a lot of the same people, in all of his projects." Honestly I love that & the quality speaks for itself
@@AmariLeonehe really is, always, helping out his people. Him and chris jackson especially, who started their journey together with in the heights. I believe lin once said ‘as long as I have a job, you have a job’ and that just truely encapsulates their relationship.
LOL almost jumped out my seat at the semi-shoutout I got about Chris Jackson’s changeups 😭 so excited to see one last time, it literally brings me to tears especially now I also love the end part of Alexander Hamilton the most, I’ve seen it live twice and got goosebumps and tears in my eyes both times 🏠
I'm anxiously waiting for the reactions to the Tony Awards performance and "One Last Time" at the Kennedy Honors. Those are my favorites besides the entire show.
Yay more Hamilton. It’s one of my favorite musicals and I have loved all your reaction videos. And you’ve pointed out themes and musical knowledge bits I never saw. So thank you for that.
🏠 I loved how you got super intense about the cameraman. Lol This was super fun to watch, you giggled so much and I could tell how much you enjoyed it. I love that Lin is super freaking amazing but seeing him like bobbing back and forth like a kid waiting for his turn. Love it! 🦁 Thank you for doing these. Cant wait for more. And as many others have said I miss Obama. Talking about how we are ALL in this together feels so far away right now.
"🏠 I loved how you got super intense about the cameraman. Lol" Yeah haha big "you had ONE job" energy 😹 "This was super fun to watch, you giggled so much and I could tell how much you enjoyed it." Yeah it was good vibes for sure!! Glad you enjoyed it! "I love that Lin is super freaking amazing but seeing him like bobbing back and forth like a kid waiting for his turn. Love it!" He was feeling the genius of the music he created and honestly same!! "🦁 Thank you for doing these. Cant wait for more. And as many others have said I miss Obama. Talking about how we are ALL in this together feels so far away right now." Many more to come there are some more white house performances I am set to do as well!
About the different artistic choices: probably my favorite thing about live performances is that every performance is different. Whether it's intentional choices or just how things fall out, every performance is its own distinct work of art that can never be perfectly duplicated.
🏠 YAY!!! Amari’s back!!! These White House performances are amazing. We do owe the Obamas and the White House staff eternal gratitude for making this version of Hamilton possible. You are so right, Amari; seeing the cast “in the wild” performing without the Broadway trimmings but hitting just as hard is a gift to us all. I’m so happy you are bringing us your thoughts and insights on this raw presentation of our beloved jewel. Keep ‘em coming!! 😊
Aww, great personal footage, Amari!! Life-changing for sure. As for the curriculum, I've actually downloaded it all in the past and taught a high school course with it called Rise Up!
🏠 I love the White House performances - so glad you decided to watch them. Also love the baby Amari flashback - what a great experience and memory for your life!
🏠 You are the best observer and teacher. You brought out points in the video that I did not notice even after seeing the full version three times. Now you have done the same for this White House performance that I’ve also seen before. I look forward to more of your observations and commentary of the other parts of the White House performance. Big fan of yours and Hamilton. Keep doing it.
🏠 love all these reactions. I know there are still many to come but sad the Hamilton run is almost reached its conclusion. You've legit bodied everyyyyy video Amari!! 🫶🏼
OMG how did I miss this??? I need to be somewhere now but I will watch it this evening... thank you Amari! 🏠ok edited to add I lied, I couldn't wait to watch it later so I delayed where I was going so I could watch it now. Loved your reaction, like always. You're so funny and clever, so detail-oriented and so observant. Random thoughts: I loved your reaction to seeing the cast in the wild. Too funny. Also, Amari if you can, go back and listen for about 10 seconds starting at about 44:30, the drum beat on "do they know you rewrote the game" is SOO good... I've never noticed it before. Also speaking of never noticed, I don't know how but I have literally never heard the "shot him, shot him" echoes that you pointed out... how in the world did I miss that? I've only listened to that song 1000 times. Thanks again for another great video -- you have such a great vibe and make everything so enjoyable. Question, can I send you a direct message on instagram or twitter? I just have a business-type question to ask. Completely appropriate, I promise. Thank you so much for another entertaining video!
Oooh you came out swinging with this choice to combine the White House performances!! Just rewatched a few of them a couple of days ago and they never get old 😍
The Obamas also recorded the introduction for Hamilton at the Tonys as well! I think Michelle saw it on Broadway multiple times in those days. They were even interviewed for the documentaries about Hamilton that were coming out all over the place at that time. And Michelle went to see it on Broadway multiple times. It was a really fun time. Hahaha
🏠 this was so much fun! I loved seeing the progression of the song from its earlier iterations to the final product that got so many people hyped. Also, as someone who went to an arts school that was too small to get much recognition, I’m a tad jealous of baby Amari, but I’m really glad you got that experience. 😁🏠
🏠Oh boy with a treat! I actually just rewatched Key & Peele with Obama as the anger translator when he gave a speech and he had Keegan Michael key there with him live. There's a desire to revisit days with less fear right now. Thank you amari for sharing such great things with us, I'm really excited for all of the related material coming from you. Lynn was in the cold open last Saturday for Saturday night live. You should add it to your reactions if you want. It's a little bit Hamilton related. It definitely had me giggling, and he nearly broke at one point.
another cracking video 🏠 can't wait to see you react to the drunk history video, its a personal favourite of mine from this amalgamation of hamilton lore
Love that the Ham’ reaction journey continues! Those curtains would go great in my living room. Just sayin’! 😂😉🏠❤ Thanks for another great reaction. Love the comment on Chris Jackson’s timing and the explanation. I wondered about that in previous viewings. His performance of “One Last Time” here is just 🔥Can’t wait for that reaction!
Thank you! Apparently a lot of people haven't seen that first one. I have no idea what's popular or not or what the order should be, I'm just reacting to what I'm being told to react to lol
Love that you’re really reacting to all of it…like all. The whole musical, the live performances the speeches about the musical and I assume you’ll react to the mixtape as well. Appreciate that man. Love you videos. 🏠
5:03 - had to stop and comment - I literally was SAYING "Just you wait" and I looked at the screen - JINX!!! so looking forward to this - and everything else Hamilton-related! Love your reactions and energy!!!
Ok, probably couldn't do a whole video to it, but there is a video of Lin hearing Weird Al's Hamilton polka for the first time. Lin is a huge Weird Al fan. It's super fun, you should at least watch it.
One of the things I love about Lin's performance is that he *knew* people would think (at first) that it was a comedy song written for this specific White-House event, so he had to play into that a little bit to get them on his side. His delivery of "Alexander Hamilton... his name is Alexander Hamilton...." so completely deadpan the first time is 100% giving the audience permission to laugh at how ludicrous the whole idea of the "concept" is. (Because it is ludicrous. BUT. It's also genius. And he knew he'd have them by the end.) Re: Burr - originally Lin thought he would play Burr and they would have someone else as Hamilton. Ultimately (and thank everything) he took on Hamilton and had someone else play Burr. -- Oh, as far as other musicals being invited to perform at the White House while they were on Broadway - "1776," the first musical about the birth of America, was the first to be invited back in 1970. Gotta love coming full circle.
Yay! Thank you for doing these videos. 😃 also, you mentioned it being weird seeing the cast in regular clothes. If you haven’t watched any music videos from clipping yet (Daveed Diggs’ group), I highly recommend their music. 🏠
So, as a musical theatre fan I'm so excited for you doing other musicals, the way you listen and react would be so good for spotting the musical story telling, and keeping up with the lyricism. My pics for you would be Sweeney Todd, Book of Mormon, Avenue Q and Legally Blond. Love your videos, first time commenting 🦁
the "his mother went quick" line always gives me chills and makes me tear up. so succinct. edit: i think the rest of the cast is seated to the right of the main stage. also it's so delightful how much joy Daveed has when Leslie goes into his second verse (when the camera is slow to pan back over to him).
I loved your Hamilton reaction and would love to see you react to more musicals, especially Les Miserables, Anastasia (Broadway), Phantom of the opera, Jekyll & Hyde musical, Bonnie & Clyde Musical and/or Kinky Boots musical. 🤩🤩
I love these videos sooo much! I'd love to see you react to Hamilton's America, the PBS documentary about the making of this musical. The Molloy Musical Theater youtube channel has it! Apologies if this is a repeat request.
I just realized something when Obama was giving his remarks during the second performance. When he said he wanted to bring Hamilton to the White House, I realized that Hamilton never got to see Washington D.C. come to life.
I highly recommend watching the PBS documentary Hamilton's America ... ( If not for your channel, just for yourself!). It is amazing. Chris Washington & other cast members visiting the slave quarters at Mount Vernon is transformative.
@@AmariLeoneDon’t confuse it with Scamilton. An evangelical church performed the show, poorly, and rewrote parts to spread their evangelical message. They got a cease and desist. Also they ended it with an anti-LGBT altar call. And I know that Broadway is not just for gays anymore, but it’s still pretty gay.
I always enjoy your thoughts and commentaries of these songs, performances, and their meanings with the context. Since you enjoy motifs and lyrical composition, I would highly recommend you looking at Into the Woods. The songs are written by Stephan Sondheim (RIP) who is known for these types of techniques. He has written other musicals, but this is one of his more well-known works and overall, a great musical.
I'm kinda jealous you went to an art school so young, but seeing baby!Amari was so cool! You were (and are, lest you think otherwise) so cute! I don't think I know of other Ham stuff that others haven't already suggested and I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions! 🏚
Alex Lacamore is the Music Director and in charge of the orchestration, which is the arrangement of the instrumentation. Lin is the composer AND lyricist, but Alex brings the music into its fullness. Someday, when the production rights become available to other companies, the orchestration will be sent out to the Music Director, who generally selects the musicians. Every question you have is answered in the “Hamiltome,” or the gorgeous book available everywhere.
Oh, wow! I don't remember ever seeing this one before. I think I saw a different version where the Broadway show had started and he brought a bunch of the players to the White House to perform for Obama. But I'm getting chills - chills! - listening to him performance solo! EDIT: and of course, that video is at the end of yours. Which I would have known if I had actually looked at the thumbnail instead of just saying "ooh! Amari! new video! yay!" and clicking on it 😊
Thanks for sharing your days of student Amari. Not surprised that you attended school for arts and,yes,the song is “ It’s a hard knock life” from Annie. and you were a cutie patootie. Love that ,like the rest of us Hamilton lovers your enjoyment just contnues to rise as well. I started rewatching your reactions from the beginning again,so was over the moon to see another reaction.Appreciate the pencil to the brain you have .Seeing Obama though really helps/ hurts but-thank you.🏡🤩
Let's goooooooo!!! Starting off this journey into the Hamilton Auxiliary Content with a BANG on this one!! If you have certain Hamilton content you'd like me to react to make sure to leave that in the comment section down below!! 👇🦁
Edit: Guys I know who Barack & Michelle are (*obviously*) 😭. What I said was "Is that Michelle's Mama?" not "Is that Michelle Obama?". The woman I was asking about was the woman sitting on the far side of Pres Obama (she's wearing white & black hence my "in the snazzy, not zebra print" comment). If you follow my cursor you'll see I even swirl it on her to specify who I meant.
It was Michelle's Mama. RIP.
I hope you check out the unreleased/different version songs from Hamilton:
- First burn (the original version of burn)
there's also a youtube video called "All deleted songs from Hamilton" that compiles the rest of the songs
Yes, thats Michelle’s mom, RIP. She moved into to White House to help care for their young daughters after the first election. Her dedication to the family is moving ❤
Ok, so you just saw/heard President Obama use his first name, and then you ho back to shortening it. It's almost like you want people to take your treatment of Lin-Manuel as an example and start calling LeBron James "Le." I know that you don't MEAN to disrespect him, but I think you do accidentally.
Also, hey, did you know that if you don't pause the video, and try to comment while it's playing, the advertisement deletes everything you typed? I mention this to explain why there's no 🏠 in my other comment...
Obamas in the White house feel like a different timeline... I want to be back there. =(
A lot of things have changed since then that's for sure
Pleeease...take us back to when we had peace.
It feels like they left office & we fell into the upside down. 😢
miss them fr
His joke about Lin doing something about congress haunts. That's that piece of shit era that decided they'd block his court appointment leading to today's f'd court.
The first White House performance was an amazing display of cojones by LMM. He only had the one song done, and he debuted it in front of the President and a whole lot of big important people.
Facts but when you have a banger like that, the world needs to see it! Even the leader of the free world
Lil fun fact but in the 2nd video the cast said that most of them were rly hungover that morning so it’s pretty funny to rewatch knowing that little bit of information lol
Something definitely seemed off. It looked as if they were maybe being a bit more reserved or changing bits for the White House, but that adds up.
I was looking for this exact comment! Their description of it is so funny. That was a choice too lol. I've seen Diggs perform live and he was hungover (or drunk) then too. Makes them even more human, I think
In Dec. 2016, Obama’s last momth in office, he recorded the Hamildrop. He did One Last Time with Chris Jackson (George Washington) where he delivered Washington’s final address. Obama delivering Hamilton’s parts. The Obama White House was different-
Needs to react to that as well, the gospel feel is just 👩🍳💋
You mean 2017.
The whole “picked up the Chernow biography for some light beach reading” is even funnier if you’ve seen the book. It is a CINDERBLOCK of a book.
I feel like LMM reads fast, he has hyper energy which usually results in fast reading (or no reading at all) lol
@@AmariLeone it is incredibly dense & detailed- but he picked it up (supposedly) because it was the biggest book in the gift shop & he needed something for the plane/beach.
His mother said he was reading in preschool.
And there is an iconic photo of Lin reading the book on the beach. Always fun to hear Chernow talking about his point of view with how Lin approached him and all of this came to be.
🏡😊👏🏾
I think it's really cool that you highlighted Alex Lacamoire. Composers don't always get their due. The entire musical, when analyzed as a cohesive composition is incredibly sophisticated.
That man is for sure a musical genius, gotta give him his credit!! 😤🫡
Baby Amari is too darn cute!!!
I know right, my goodness what happened 😭 Kidding, appreciate that! ☺️❤️💛
We got baby Amari and young Lin in the same video!
the whole cast was there, even Jonathan Groff who didn’t get to perform. they did a lot of songs!
and watching “One Last Time” knowing Obama was just about to leave office was honestly heart breaking 💔😢 you should find that one specifically and then do the mixtape version where
obama joins Chris on the track
Yeah I ended up seeing that part towards the end
This was 2 visits. If a great deal of the music wasn't written they had no cast to bring. If my memory is working this was a Night Celebrating Poetry.
The other bits I have heard, once again if the cells are working, was toward the end of Obama's Administration. I know he was moved greatly by Washington's final song, especially,
"I think the date on this said 2009" why does this feel like it was 100 years ago now 😭😭😭😭 yo if anybody got a time machine PLEASE let me use it, I promise not to paradox anything I just WANNA BE BACK THERE AGAIN.
Date came up so quick I wasn't 100% sure but then I saw the Obamas and was like oh okay that makes sense
It was final. This was just the FIRST TIME he performed it. He had performed from In The Heights at the White House and he got a call asking “they want you back, what do you have new?” 80% of the play wasnt written yet but THIS was finished.
“they want you back, what do you have new?” Now THIS is an incredible compliment to a performer! My guy Lin must've killed it in the last performance
@@AmariLeoneIn the Heights is very good. I’m one of those that liked the movie, which definitely suffered from a Covid premiere.
A friend of mine was a fan of "In the Heights" and told me about Hamilton being in development about 5 or 6 years before it hit stage.
Stage shows are in production and rehearsals for YEARS before anyone sees them. This is something I learned from watching the TV show "Smash," which is about a (fictional) musical about Marilyn Monroe's life. GUESS WHO ELSE IS IN IT?!
Leslie Odom Jr aka Burr!
Leslie Odom was once a guest star on Gilmore Girls. He played Pompous Princeton Guy.
@PelafinaLievre he sure did!!
Omg a fellow SMASH fan!!
Phillipa Soo is in it too! (Barely. I think she only had one line, but she was in the ensemble of both shows.)
Woohoo more Hamilton content!! So Alex Lacamoire is a frequent collaborator with Lin, he’s an orchestrator and music director- so basically Lin wrote all the music, and Alex arranged it for the full band/orchestra. He also conducted the pit during the original run (that guy popping out at the bottom of the stage that they hand a Reynolds pamphlet to and who waves to the audience at the end- that’s him). He was also music director for Wicked, In The Heights, and Dear Evan Hansen 🏠
There is a CBS Morning video here on You Tube ('Hamilton Creators On Crafting a Revolutionary Musical") interviewing Lin, Alex, stage Director Thomas Kail and Choregrapher Andy Blankenbueler and they talk about their history working together both prior and through the development of the show.
And yes, that was Michelle Obama's mother sitting next to her and the President. She lived with them at the WH when Obama was in office to help with their daughters.
And I may be getting ahead of myself as I am typing this after just listening to you listen to the poerty jam performance: the lyrics you talk about not being in the final song in fact are, it's just that they are sung by the company not Burr.
Okay, am now in the second part: the reason Lin had been invited to the first poetry jam was because of his writing and Tony award for "In the Heights" which I believe the Obamas saw on a trip to NY. So it's not a surprise to see the Hamilton cast brought in once that show also won a Tony --- not to mention as Obama noted, the bi-partisan appeal of the show!
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He also has pretty significant hearing loss, which blows my mind! I saw an interview once where he said being hearing impaired actually helped him focus on individual parts of music, which helped him become such a good arranger and orchestrator 🥰
AHA....so that's an extra layer to why he's there on that collab single Found/Tonight with Lin-Manuel and Ben Platt.
Thanks for more Hamilton content! Really enjoying it all! 🏠
Here is the key from this first cut: WHEN he raps ‘Alexander Hamilton’ for the first time the crowd at the White House laughs - BUT now in the play that moment gets the some of the Loudest cheers.
That part always gets me tbh. Before Hamilton exploded as a musical, no one would have expected a musical about the founding fathers to be so popular. But in hindsight after that, the laugh to cheers shift is so powerful and I love it.
@@Caterfree10not just that but many people didn’t even know who Alexander Hamilton was. Now everybody knows. 😆
@@elianwolfert3879 so true.
When it was performed in San Juan, PR, it got a 2-min standing ovation!
17:07 aaaaaand now I’m crying missing Obama in the White House. Someone take me back, we didn’t know how good it was.
Amen!
@@Caterfree10 take me with you. When Obama was elected President I wrote in a journal I kept for my kid who was little then about how much hope I had and how monumental a time we were living in. And that he was gonna grow up in a better more equitable world. Now that kid is 18 and about to graduate high school and those feelings of hope and community are hard to come by and I feel like we’ve handed those “kids” a shitstorm future that they will have to sort out and that really sucks. Sorry to be such a downer
The idea that an 18th century white guy who was obsessed with creating a complex financial system could embody 21st century hip hop culture is both totally absurd and completely dead on correct.
Please please please watch Chris Jackson's performance of One Last Time at the White House! I think it is the best recorded performance he did of the song.
Stay tuned
🏡 I've never left an emoji, but I wanted to tell you I have thoroughly enjoyed all your reaction videos (all 17 of them before this one) on Hamilton, the musical. Thank you for teaching me about rap. I had used rap songs in my 4th/5th grade classrooms before to teach poetry and the power of spoken word, but learned so much more thanks to you. I also appreciated your depth and breadth of knowledge about music, dance and staging, as well as your authentic emotional reactions - the laughter and the tears. Thank you for giving me all this time with my favorite musical! I saw it in 2017, and bought tickets for my family in 2020.... which got canceled. But, since we had to wait 18 months to bring our adult kids, by that time some of my grandchildren were grown enough to see it. We also watched it on the Disney channel, thank goodness. Again, thank you for letting me re-live all the emotions and reactions.
The actress who plays the bullet (Ariana Debose) won an Oscar a couple of years ago for West Side Story, and she's a Disney princess now. Every time you call her the Bullet I smile because she's maybe one of the most famous from that musical nowadays.
Fun fact if hamilton was written as a traditional musical instead of hip hop and rap, it would be about six hours. Also, les miserables started as a mix tape. You also have to listen to hamilton Polka by weird al.
One of the benefits of rapping instead of singing is being able to get a ton of lyrics into a short amount of time
Jesus Christ Superstar also started as a Concept Album. Actually, Hamilton reminds me quite a bit of JCS, except instead of making the Founding Fathers into rappers, Jesus and his disciples were hippies who sing rock music. And Judas as the narrator = Burr as the narrator.
Definitely agree about the Hamilton Polka 😂😍
There's even a really cute video of Lin Manuel Miranda and Jimmy Fallon (I think over video call during quarantine?) listening to the Weird Al Hamilton Polka for the first time! 😂😊
@@jcompton8507 now that you said this I can totally see the similarities!
I've never seen the OG version of Jesus Christ Superstar but I absolutely looove the 2012 Live Arena Tour version with Melanie Chisholm as Mary Magdalene! 😊😍 (And they went with modern day hippies on that one 🤣)
@@AmariLeone Speaking of words - Hamilton has more words in it than any of Shakespeare's plays, with the exception of Hamlet. Yay Hamlet! (IYKYK)
My God, I miss him.
I miss them both 😢
@@ItsLexyI miss that time...
The "Loyalist Royalist" guy is Thayne Jasperson -- he's the only member of the original cast who's still in the show.
@@callalily3994 thayne jasperson of high school musical and newsies “fame” haha 🙌
Absolutely love that you threw in the LMM "just you wait" gif because I have lost count the number of times I've sung that while watching your Hamilton reactions!
I am now in the "I will be referencing Hamilton in my Hamilton" phase 😤😌
I loved hearing your own story and seeing the footage of you as a young performer. inspiring stuff
Hahaha appreciate that! That story will be super cool if I ever *make it* for now just a fun fact about ya boy
Bro one last time from the white house performance brings me to tears when i need to make sure i still can feel.
Appreciate your passion keep going
It was originally going to be a mixtape, but this performance helped change his focus. Also, Alex Lacamoire graduated from New World School of the Arts in Miami (a very big deal). And he has partial hearing in one ear.
I think it's due to that last line, "I'm the damn fool that shot him."
I live in DC, and I remember how viral this video went when the White House posted it the next day. EVERYONE was talking about it. (And I definitely do not work in politics!)
Think about it - if you're going to workshop something combining history, politics, and music/art, there may not be a better test audience ANYWHERE! Hahahaha
(Also, how bold does a person have to be to workshop a project involving the Founding Fathers rapping to a room full of famous artists, politicians, and the President of the US?!?)
Hi Amari! Seeing baby you in the clip made me feel like a proud Auntie! The rest of the cast were to the right off camera. Life was so much more stable in day to day life then, I wish we were back there. One Last Time here is brilliant!
"Hi Amari! Seeing baby you in the clip made me feel like a proud Auntie!" I am glad to hear it Queen Liz! I was quite tiny in that clip lol!
"The rest of the cast were to the right off camera." Yeah I ended up seeing them towards the end of the video
"Life was so much more stable in day to day life then, I wish we were back there." I was a kid at the time this happened so for me life was A LOTTTTT less complicated back then but yeah I totally get you lol.
"One Last Time here is brilliant!" Coming soon 🔜👀
Not sure how common it is, but fun fact: Hadestown, another really incredible (and award-winning) musical, also started out as a concept album. Might be an 'I'd have two nickels...' thing, but still cool.
Oooh that's super cool! Maybe many do & I just didn't know about it
Hadestown ❤❤
@@AmariLeone Jesus Christ Superstar was a concept album too, one that sold well enough to get the show funded.
There are a bunch of musicals that started as concept albums -- for some of them, that was the main goal all along, with the album as an intermediate step, but for others, the musical came years (or even decades) later.
baby lin!
edit: baby Amari!
Lion cub era 😹
THAT IS A BAR!!!! " No company to accompany him" FIRE!!
You see what type of time we on over here Coach! 😤
Definitely add First Burn to your list.
It's on there, stay tuned
@@AmariLeone oh man....
. I was ready to move on to a new RUclips adventure and you brought me back with wit and charm and a home video. Haha. The best.
Appreciate that King Roger! I have a lot more Hamilton Content coming down the pipes, keep an eye out for me some of it might be to your tastes! 😤👍
They also performed “My Shot”, “The Schuyler Sisters” and “One Last Cry” at the WH.
One last cry ❤❤❤
I love the first WH performance so damn much. He comes out and everything about how he presents it shows he knows he’s doing something INSANE. He’s like a magician telling the audience “now I know you think physics is real, but here’s what I’m about to do” and it sounds like a joke, then he FUCKING. DOES. IT. He connects the room’s reverence for the founders to the audacity and vision of hip hop. And as the man says, the world will never be the same.
Oh yeah! Another one so soon, what a treat. Love that you’re now diving into these extras!
WokNinja in the house!!!! Yep wanted to get started on the Ham auxiliaries a bit before I dive into the next musical!
Ok, now that I’ve officially made it through the whole video! So good to see the reaction - I also appreciate the frustration with the camera person (me too 😂).
I think what President Obama was talking about was less about scoring a visit to the White House for the students but the “EduHam” program that sets up actual Hamilton shows just for students that comes with cast chats and curriculum.
Thanks for it as always! 🏠
Also, Alex Lacamoire was his go-to guy as he helped him create and produce Lin's first musical In The Heights, which you should also react to. (Find the Broadway clips if you can before the movie to see the OG cast) Lin is like the Adam Sandler of Broadway in that he works with a lot of the same people, in all of his projects.
I saw " In the Heights" randomly as a sophomore in hs in 2012.(My sister's dance team went & my mom was a chaperone & they had extra tickets) so I honestly didn't know what I was going to see... and fell in LOVE ! I had already been in the theater magnet /choir/ hip hop team at my school so in didn't necessarily turn me on to musicals but I had never seen a musical like that. While I'm glad I got to see that one live. I SO wish it had been hamilton! 😂
"Lin is like the Adam Sandler of Broadway in that he works with a lot of the same people, in all of his projects." Honestly I love that & the quality speaks for itself
@@AmariLeonehe really is, always, helping out his people. Him and chris jackson especially, who started their journey together with in the heights. I believe lin once said ‘as long as I have a job, you have a job’ and that just truely encapsulates their relationship.
LOL almost jumped out my seat at the semi-shoutout I got about Chris Jackson’s changeups 😭 so excited to see one last time, it literally brings me to tears especially now
I also love the end part of Alexander Hamilton the most, I’ve seen it live twice and got goosebumps and tears in my eyes both times 🏠
Lin was wearing the suitiest suit that ever suited.
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This made me laugh, that was cute 🤣☺️
And Amari's remarks suited well! 😂
Yesssss!!! Loved the previous reactions and 100% HERE for any and all auxiliary content!! Thank youuuuuuu 🏠
I am having so much fun watching everything with you! You’re doing such a fantastic job!!! 👏🏻
I'm anxiously waiting for the reactions to the Tony Awards performance and "One Last Time" at the Kennedy Honors. Those are my favorites besides the entire show.
It's on the list for sure!
Yes! That Tony performance of Yorktown was awesome!🔥
I miss this President so much!!! And thank you for including Lin's first performance at the White House. I had never seen that before.
Yay more Hamilton. It’s one of my favorite musicals and I have loved all your reaction videos. And you’ve pointed out themes and musical knowledge bits I never saw. So thank you for that.
🏠 I loved how you got super intense about the cameraman. Lol
This was super fun to watch, you giggled so much and I could tell how much you enjoyed it.
I love that Lin is super freaking amazing but seeing him like bobbing back and forth like a kid waiting for his turn. Love it!
🦁 Thank you for doing these. Cant wait for more.
And as many others have said I miss Obama. Talking about how we are ALL in this together feels so far away right now.
"🏠 I loved how you got super intense about the cameraman. Lol" Yeah haha big "you had ONE job" energy 😹
"This was super fun to watch, you giggled so much and I could tell how much you enjoyed it." Yeah it was good vibes for sure!! Glad you enjoyed it!
"I love that Lin is super freaking amazing but seeing him like bobbing back and forth like a kid waiting for his turn. Love it!" He was feeling the genius of the music he created and honestly same!!
"🦁 Thank you for doing these. Cant wait for more.
And as many others have said I miss Obama. Talking about how we are ALL in this together feels so far away right now." Many more to come there are some more white house performances I am set to do as well!
About the different artistic choices: probably my favorite thing about live performances is that every performance is different. Whether it's intentional choices or just how things fall out, every performance is its own distinct work of art that can never be perfectly duplicated.
🏛️🏠 Loved all your Hamilton reactions!
🏠 YAY!!! Amari’s back!!! These White House performances are amazing. We do owe the Obamas and the White House staff eternal gratitude for making this version of Hamilton possible. You are so right, Amari; seeing the cast “in the wild” performing without the Broadway trimmings but hitting just as hard is a gift to us all. I’m so happy you are bringing us your thoughts and insights on this raw presentation of our beloved jewel. Keep ‘em coming!! 😊
🏠 thank you for continuing the journey! I haven't seen some of these, so I'm excited!
Aww, great personal footage, Amari!! Life-changing for sure. As for the curriculum, I've actually downloaded it all in the past and taught a high school course with it called Rise Up!
🏠 I love the White House performances - so glad you decided to watch them. Also love the baby Amari flashback - what a great experience and memory for your life!
The very first WH performance gives me goosebumps every time. Utterly extraordinary.
🏠 You are the best observer and teacher. You brought out points in the video that I did not notice even after seeing the full version three times. Now you have done the same for this White House performance that I’ve also seen before. I look forward to more of your observations and commentary of the other parts of the White House performance. Big fan of yours and Hamilton. Keep doing it.
🏠 love all these reactions. I know there are still many to come but sad the Hamilton run is almost reached its conclusion. You've legit bodied everyyyyy video Amari!! 🫶🏼
OMG how did I miss this??? I need to be somewhere now but I will watch it this evening... thank you Amari!
🏠ok edited to add I lied, I couldn't wait to watch it later so I delayed where I was going so I could watch it now. Loved your reaction, like always. You're so funny and clever, so detail-oriented and so observant.
Random thoughts: I loved your reaction to seeing the cast in the wild. Too funny. Also, Amari if you can, go back and listen for about 10 seconds starting at about 44:30, the drum beat on "do they know you rewrote the game" is SOO good... I've never noticed it before. Also speaking of never noticed, I don't know how but I have literally never heard the "shot him, shot him" echoes that you pointed out... how in the world did I miss that? I've only listened to that song 1000 times.
Thanks again for another great video -- you have such a great vibe and make everything so enjoyable. Question, can I send you a direct message on instagram or twitter? I just have a business-type question to ask. Completely appropriate, I promise. Thank you so much for another entertaining video!
Love this aux reaction. Looking forward to the next one! 🏠
Oooh you came out swinging with this choice to combine the White House performances!! Just rewatched a few of them a couple of days ago and they never get old 😍
The Obamas also recorded the introduction for Hamilton at the Tonys as well! I think Michelle saw it on Broadway multiple times in those days. They were even interviewed for the documentaries about Hamilton that were coming out all over the place at that time. And Michelle went to see it on Broadway multiple times. It was a really fun time. Hahaha
🏠 this was so much fun! I loved seeing the progression of the song from its earlier iterations to the final product that got so many people hyped.
Also, as someone who went to an arts school that was too small to get much recognition, I’m a tad jealous of baby Amari, but I’m really glad you got that experience. 😁🏠
🏠Oh boy with a treat! I actually just rewatched Key & Peele with Obama as the anger translator when he gave a speech and he had Keegan Michael key there with him live. There's a desire to revisit days with less fear right now.
Thank you amari for sharing such great things with us, I'm really excited for all of the related material coming from you.
Lynn was in the cold open last Saturday for Saturday night live. You should add it to your reactions if you want. It's a little bit Hamilton related. It definitely had me giggling, and he nearly broke at one point.
another cracking video 🏠 can't wait to see you react to the drunk history video, its a personal favourite of mine from this amalgamation of hamilton lore
Coming soon my friend! 😤
You are correct, fashion police was not on my bingo card, but I am loving every bit of it.
Maybe that can be your next project. 🤣🤣🤣
Lin's followers on Twitter gave him crap for wearing jeans to the White House. 😃
YAY Amari’s back! Loved this…great job! BTW… if you’re in Southern California (USC hat) hope you and your family and friends are doing well…🏠🏠🏠🏠
Love that the Ham’ reaction journey continues! Those curtains would go great in my living room. Just sayin’! 😂😉🏠❤ Thanks for another great reaction. Love the comment on Chris Jackson’s timing and the explanation. I wondered about that in previous viewings. His performance of “One Last Time” here is just 🔥Can’t wait for that reaction!
So glad you did this in this order. Also loved the personal footage of you as a kid. Awesome work🏚️
Thank you! Apparently a lot of people haven't seen that first one. I have no idea what's popular or not or what the order should be, I'm just reacting to what I'm being told to react to lol
43:01 out of all things.. I did not expect you to pause it for this HAHAHAHH I'm in tears
Love that you’re really reacting to all of it…like all. The whole musical, the live performances the speeches about the musical and I assume you’ll react to the mixtape as well. Appreciate that man. Love you videos. 🏠
🏘️🏚️🏠🏡 love all the performances!
🏠the harmony at the end is my favorite too and I've never seen the first video, so thank you for that.
No problem! I have no idea what's popular or not, I'm just reacting to what I'm being told to react to lol
5:03 - had to stop and comment - I literally was SAYING "Just you wait" and I looked at the screen - JINX!!! so looking forward to this - and everything else Hamilton-related! Love your reactions and energy!!!
Ok, probably couldn't do a whole video to it, but there is a video of Lin hearing Weird Al's Hamilton polka for the first time. Lin is a huge Weird Al fan. It's super fun, you should at least watch it.
Yes! Please! But the version with only Lin without Jimmy Fallon!
Yes!
yesss been waiting for this one!!
One of the things I love about Lin's performance is that he *knew* people would think (at first) that it was a comedy song written for this specific White-House event, so he had to play into that a little bit to get them on his side. His delivery of "Alexander Hamilton... his name is Alexander Hamilton...." so completely deadpan the first time is 100% giving the audience permission to laugh at how ludicrous the whole idea of the "concept" is. (Because it is ludicrous. BUT. It's also genius. And he knew he'd have them by the end.) Re: Burr - originally Lin thought he would play Burr and they would have someone else as Hamilton. Ultimately (and thank everything) he took on Hamilton and had someone else play Burr. -- Oh, as far as other musicals being invited to perform at the White House while they were on Broadway - "1776," the first musical about the birth of America, was the first to be invited back in 1970. Gotta love coming full circle.
Yay! Thank you for doing these videos. 😃 also, you mentioned it being weird seeing the cast in regular clothes. If you haven’t watched any music videos from clipping yet (Daveed Diggs’ group), I highly recommend their music. 🏠
He also did a really cute song called "Puppy for Hanukkah" for Disney a few years ago.
first hamilton auxiliary content video! excited to see more of these omg
🏠 loving your reacts!
jesus, can you believe its been so long ago since this man was the leader of our country.
Love this continued series! 🏠
So, as a musical theatre fan I'm so excited for you doing other musicals, the way you listen and react would be so good for spotting the musical story telling, and keeping up with the lyricism. My pics for you would be Sweeney Todd, Book of Mormon, Avenue Q and Legally Blond.
Love your videos, first time commenting 🦁
the "his mother went quick" line always gives me chills and makes me tear up. so succinct.
edit: i think the rest of the cast is seated to the right of the main stage.
also it's so delightful how much joy Daveed has when Leslie goes into his second verse (when the camera is slow to pan back over to him).
🏡 drunk history yesss!! Love your reactions!
I loved your Hamilton reaction and would love to see you react to more musicals, especially Les Miserables, Anastasia (Broadway), Phantom of the opera, Jekyll & Hyde musical, Bonnie & Clyde Musical and/or Kinky Boots musical. 🤩🤩
So happy the Hamilton journey with Amari continues!
Team Eliza will be here for all of it 🩵
🏠 thank you for being so thorough in your Hamilton content reactions!
I love these videos sooo much! I'd love to see you react to Hamilton's America, the PBS documentary about the making of this musical. The Molloy Musical Theater youtube channel has it! Apologies if this is a repeat request.
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Oh, I don’t see it there. Maybe they had to take it down?
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I just realized something when Obama was giving his remarks during the second performance. When he said he wanted to bring Hamilton to the White House, I realized that Hamilton never got to see Washington D.C. come to life.
I highly recommend watching the PBS documentary Hamilton's America ... ( If not for your channel, just for yourself!). It is amazing. Chris Washington & other cast members visiting the slave quarters at Mount Vernon is transformative.
Yes! Please!
I could just listen to this cast singing at me all day. So good! 🔥🔥🔥
That is a suit…
Hahahahaha.
Blue’s my favorite color and I love your take!
(Also, you’re making me feel old, kthxbai)
Yay, more Amari Hamilton! 🎉
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Much more coming soon Queen Juliana!
This was so fun!! Baby Lin and baby Amari 🥹 Can't wait to see the rest of your reactions! 🏠
Thanks again mate. Not sure if anyone has alerted you to the soundtrack of SPAMILTON the spoof of the show. It is very funny
I'll add it to my list!
@@AmariLeoneDon’t confuse it with Scamilton. An evangelical church performed the show, poorly, and rewrote parts to spread their evangelical message. They got a cease and desist.
Also they ended it with an anti-LGBT altar call. And I know that Broadway is not just for gays anymore, but it’s still pretty gay.
I always enjoy your thoughts and commentaries of these songs, performances, and their meanings with the context. Since you enjoy motifs and lyrical composition, I would highly recommend you looking at Into the Woods. The songs are written by Stephan Sondheim (RIP) who is known for these types of techniques. He has written other musicals, but this is one of his more well-known works and overall, a great musical.
🏠 another great reaction, as always. Looking forward to more and more.
I'm kinda jealous you went to an art school so young, but seeing baby!Amari was so cool! You were (and are, lest you think otherwise) so cute! I don't think I know of other Ham stuff that others haven't already suggested and I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions! 🏚
Thanks for sharing your school footage! Validated the importance of affirmation and pouring into the next generation!🦁🥳👏🏼
Alex Lacamore is the Music Director and in charge of the orchestration, which is the arrangement of the instrumentation. Lin is the composer AND lyricist, but Alex brings the music into its fullness. Someday, when the production rights become available to other companies, the orchestration will be sent out to the Music Director, who generally selects the musicians.
Every question you have is answered in the “Hamiltome,” or the gorgeous book available everywhere.
Oh, wow! I don't remember ever seeing this one before. I think I saw a different version where the Broadway show had started and he brought a bunch of the players to the White House to perform for Obama. But I'm getting chills - chills! - listening to him performance solo!
EDIT: and of course, that video is at the end of yours. Which I would have known if I had actually looked at the thumbnail instead of just saying "ooh! Amari! new video! yay!" and clicking on it 😊
Apparently a lot of people haven't seen that one. I have no idea what's popular or not, I'm just reacting to what I'm being told to react to lol
@@AmariLeoneAs you should. It was really interesting to see LMM singing it by himself, wasn't it?
Thanks for sharing your days of student Amari. Not surprised that you attended school for arts and,yes,the song is “ It’s a hard knock life” from Annie. and you were a cutie patootie. Love that ,like the rest of us Hamilton lovers your enjoyment just contnues to rise as well. I started rewatching your reactions from the beginning again,so was over the moon to see another reaction.Appreciate the pencil to the brain you have .Seeing Obama though really helps/ hurts but-thank you.🏡🤩
I have seen this a hundred times but I just realized that Lin (look at that lil baby!) says AH was "born an orphan" 😂🤣
Maybe "born and orphaned"? 😆
I always figured he meant he was illegitimate, mother was a prostitute, father was a John that took off.
So excited to see your reaction to this!!!