What is Hamilton?

[knx9211]

Daaaaaaaaammit I won't get to see him!!!

[jennybee1018]

Jan 17, 2017 10:48:10 GMT -5 cbwm1 said:

James Iglehart (Genie in Aladdin on Broadway) is taking over as Lafayette/Jefferson!

www.theatermania.com/broadway/news/james-monroe-iglehart-leaves-aladdin-for-hamilton_79704.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=17jan2017

Just saw this!! So exciting! Too bad I won't get to see him. Pretty happy that we saw Andrew Chappelle do it :-) He was awesome!

Also, got my London tix for March 2018 :-) Fingers crossed that LMM decides to reprise his role :-)

[londoncalling]

Jan 17, 2017 13:16:46 GMT -5 c7 said:

Jan 16, 2017 6:38:42 GMT -5 londoncalling said:

Does anyone need a London sale code?

Do you still have it?

I do. Don't know if London sold out but I will pm you now.

[cinderbella]

It's finally here! We have had a Hamilton-filled three days...... It's been a bit ridiculous. And I just dropped $205 in the popup shop. Whoops. Lol

[jeaniebueller]

Jan 17, 2017 15:19:50 GMT -5 cinderbella said:

It's finally here! We have had a Hamilton-filled three days...... It's been a bit ridiculous. And I just dropped $205 in the popup shop. Whoops. Lol

Ha! On our trip, we ended up hitting Trinity church and the museum of american finance, so my trip ended up being a lot of Hamilton. It was fun though. Don't forget to order drinks and get your Hamilton souvenir cups at the show! Have fun! It was so amazing. 

[cinderbella]

You guys, I'm freaking out.

[otowngirl]

That's awesome you get to see Taran Killam's first performance!

[jennybee1018]

Jan 17, 2017 19:01:58 GMT -5 cinderbella said:

You guys, I'm freaking out.

Wooo hooo!!! Please report back :-) I feel like Taran Killam will be amazing - can't wait to hear all about it!

I'm also dying to hear how Wayne Brady is as Burr! Hope we have some Chicago ladies going soon!!!

[cinderbella]

So.

Taran was amazing. He started off a little shaky but definitely got in to his groove after his nerves called down. He was hilarious. I am a bummed because they did an all-day bow and they was it. I was thinking he'd come out for a solo bow since it was his first show but they didn't do any individual recognition.

Mandy Gonzalez is amazing. That girl can belt it out.

And Michael was a wonderful Hamilton - I really enjoyed his performance. Burr was so, so good. As was everyone else. It's so hard to pick out individual performances because they were all great.

One Last Time was....... Ugh. I cried. It's too relevant to our current state of affairs. Battle of Yorktown was also brilliant.

[blueberry10]

It's my turn one week from today - I'm excited to see how Wayne Brady does!

[jeaniebueller]

Jan 18, 2017 11:36:38 GMT -5 cinderbella said:

So.

Taran was amazing. He started off a little shaky but definitely got in to his groove after his nerves called down. He was hilarious. I am a bummed because they did an all-day bow and they was it. I was thinking he'd come out for a solo bow since it was his first show but they didn't do any individual recognition.

Mandy Gonzalez is amazing. That girl can belt it out.

And Michael was a wonderful Hamilton - I really enjoyed his performance. Burr was so, so good. As was everyone else. It's so hard to pick out individual performances because they were all great.

One Last Time was....... Ugh. I cried. It's too relevant to our current state of affairs. Battle of Yorktown was also brilliant.

I wondered how Chappelle was as Burr! Good to hear that he was great. 

[Vespasia]

Hamilton is coming to Baltimore for the 2018/2019 season. 

[jigsy]

Ok...so I just started listening to the soundtrack, and I am not wading through all 109 pages of this thread to see if this has been discussed - so, if you all don't want to talk about it, thats ok, lol.

George Washington is the only person I love more now than prior to listening to the soundtrack. Hamilton sounds like he was kind of a turd - and the affair stuff just cements by current feeling that no man should be in an office of power because apparently, all it takes is for a woman to spread her legs and all sense goes out the window.

Sorry for being a downer. I do love the music, and I am so excited to see it in LA this year...but I am not sure it has had the intended effect on me - Eliza and Angelica and Washington are the coolest people in the story.

[gretchenindisguise]

Jan 18, 2017 16:31:03 GMT -5 jigsy said:

Ok...so I just started listening to the soundtrack, and I am not wading through all 109 pages of this thread to see if this has been discussed - so, if you all don't want to talk about it, thats ok, lol.

George Washington is the only person I love more now than prior to listening to the soundtrack. Hamilton sounds like he was kind of a turd - and the affair stuff just cements by current feeling that no man should be in an office of power because apparently, all it takes is for a woman to spread her legs and all sense goes out the window.

Sorry for being a downer. I do love the music, and I am so excited to see it in LA this year...but I am not sure it has had the intended effect on me - Eliza and Angelica and Washington are the coolest people in the story.

If you need more love affair material for Washington, get his biography by Chernow. I'm about 4/5 through right now and it's just as amazing as Hamilton's. I've learned so much and have so much more respect, love and admiration for him now than I did when I started, and I thought he was a pretty rad guy when I started.

[hopecounts]

Jan 18, 2017 16:31:03 GMT -5 jigsy said:

Ok...so I just started listening to the soundtrack, and I am not wading through all 109 pages of this thread to see if this has been discussed - so, if you all don't want to talk about it, thats ok, lol.

George Washington is the only person I love more now than prior to listening to the soundtrack. Hamilton sounds like he was kind of a turd - and the affair stuff just cements by current feeling that no man should be in an office of power because apparently, all it takes is for a woman to spread her legs and all sense goes out the window.

Sorry for being a downer. I do love the music, and I am so excited to see it in LA this year...but I am not sure it has had the intended effect on me - Eliza and Angelica and Washington are the coolest people in the story.

You aren't wrong.
LMM even says as much in the Hamilton's America behind the scenes show.
Hamilton is fascinating because he is such an idiot/asshole considering how smart he actually was.

[jigsy]

Jan 18, 2017 17:02:05 GMT -5 incogneato said:

Jan 18, 2017 16:31:03 GMT -5 jigsy said:

Ok...so I just started listening to the soundtrack, and I am not wading through all 109 pages of this thread to see if this has been discussed - so, if you all don't want to talk about it, thats ok, lol.

George Washington is the only person I love more now than prior to listening to the soundtrack. Hamilton sounds like he was kind of a turd - and the affair stuff just cements by current feeling that no man should be in an office of power because apparently, all it takes is for a woman to spread her legs and all sense goes out the window.

Sorry for being a downer. I do love the music, and I am so excited to see it in LA this year...but I am not sure it has had the intended effect on me - Eliza and Angelica and Washington are the coolest people in the story.

Oh, Angelica, Eliza, and Washington definitely are better people than Hamilton. Hamilton's kind of a tool. It's still a beautiful show, though, because the characters are flawed and real. Angelica is the most brilliant, Washington is noble, and Eliza's a Saint.

Hercules Mulligan was awesome IRL, too, and Laurens.

Hamilton was brilliant and talented and he threw away his chance to do even more great things because he was impulsive and self centered, no question. Lin doesn't want to hold him up as some wonderful guy. He has some admirable traits, but maaaany flaws and his mistakes hurt his wife, killed his son, and ultimately killed him, too.

You should watch the PBS documentary- soooooo good.

I'm glad that Lin meant for him to be flawed. I just felt like maybe I missed the point while listening to the final song with Eliza - I was like, Eliza, dude, YOU did a lot of awesome things, you should be telling your own story, not Hamilton's!

And gretchenindisguise, thanks for the rec - One Last Time is my favorite song, and I like to think that Washington was really that amazing, so maybe I should read some like, real literature to cement that in.

[hopecounts]

jigsy no I am almost certain LMM said somewhere that the final song being Eliza's was to make that point.
She in life didn't see it but he wanted to show that SHE was even more amazing then Alexander in what she accomplished.

[sharknado]

Jan 18, 2017 17:08:29 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

Jan 18, 2017 16:31:03 GMT -5 jigsy said:

Ok...so I just started listening to the soundtrack, and I am not wading through all 109 pages of this thread to see if this has been discussed - so, if you all don't want to talk about it, thats ok, lol.

George Washington is the only person I love more now than prior to listening to the soundtrack. Hamilton sounds like he was kind of a turd - and the affair stuff just cements by current feeling that no man should be in an office of power because apparently, all it takes is for a woman to spread her legs and all sense goes out the window.

Sorry for being a downer. I do love the music, and I am so excited to see it in LA this year...but I am not sure it has had the intended effect on me - Eliza and Angelica and Washington are the coolest people in the story.

If you need more love affair material for Washington, get his biography by Chernow. I'm about 4/5 through right now and it's just as amazing as Hamilton's. I've learned so much and have so much more respect, love and admiration for him now than I did when I started, and I thought he was a pretty rad guy when I started.

But...did you watch the documentary? Even Chris thought Washington wasn't that great. He owned slaves, he believed only smart, white, educated MEN should be able to participate in government.

[jigsy]

Jan 18, 2017 17:22:04 GMT -5 hopecounts said:

jigsy no I am almost certain LMM said somewhere that the final song being Eliza's was to make that point.
She in life didn't see it but he wanted to show that SHE was even more amazing then Alexander in what she accomplished.

Ok...so now I am supposed to REALLY love LMM.

I am starting to see why there is a 109 page thread about this, lol

[gretchenindisguise]

Jan 18, 2017 17:23:01 GMT -5 sharknado said:

Jan 18, 2017 17:08:29 GMT -5 gretchenindisguise said:

If you need more love affair material for Washington, get his biography by Chernow. I'm about 4/5 through right now and it's just as amazing as Hamilton's. I've learned so much and have so much more respect, love and admiration for him now than I did when I started, and I thought he was a pretty rad guy when I started.

But...did you watch the documentary? Even Chris thought Washington wasn't that great. He owned slaves, he believed only smart, white, educated MEN should be able to participate in government.

I haven't watched the documentary. I should.

He was not a perfect man by any means, either before, during or after the war, and Chernow's biography doesn't hold him up as a perfect man. He goes into his history as a slave owner and how he treated them. And talks about the mistakes he made prior to, during and after the war, including his conciliatory opinions on slavery. He benefitted from them, full stop.

[feistypants]

Jan 18, 2017 14:43:40 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

Hamilton is coming to Baltimore for the 2018/2019 season. 

Where did you see this?! I'm hoping it might come here but haven't seen new tour dates.

[Vespasia]

Jan 18, 2017 17:46:08 GMT -5 feistypants said:

Jan 18, 2017 14:43:40 GMT -5 Vespasia said:

Hamilton is coming to Baltimore for the 2018/2019 season. 

Where did you see this?! I'm hoping it might come here but haven't seen new tour dates.

Our local paper posted on FB and luckily one of my friends commented.

I finish my degree in December 2018 and now I know what I am getting myself to celebrate!

[jennybee1018]

Jan 18, 2017 11:53:30 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

Jan 18, 2017 11:36:38 GMT -5 cinderbella said:

So.

Taran was amazing. He started off a little shaky but definitely got in to his groove after his nerves called down. He was hilarious. I am a bummed because they did an all-day bow and they was it. I was thinking he'd come out for a solo bow since it was his first show but they didn't do any individual recognition.

Mandy Gonzalez is amazing. That girl can belt it out.

And Michael was a wonderful Hamilton - I really enjoyed his performance. Burr was so, so good. As was everyone else. It's so hard to pick out individual performances because they were all great.

One Last Time was....... Ugh. I cried. It's too relevant to our current state of affairs. Battle of Yorktown was also brilliant.

I wondered how Chappelle was as Burr! Good to hear that he was great. 

Is there anything Chappelle can't do? He's been a lifesaver for them! I think he's played almost every single role (except I think for A. Ham - correct me if I'm wrong on that)!

Glad Taran was awesome! I think this is such a good role for him. You really need a comedian like that to play the role!

Seriously, everyone in the cast is amazing. It's clear they have high standards for their casting!!!

[knx9211]

Jan 19, 2017 0:29:40 GMT -5 jennybee1018 said:

Jan 18, 2017 11:53:30 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

I wondered how Chappelle was as Burr! Good to hear that he was great. 

Is there anything Chappelle can't do? He's been a lifesaver for them! I think he's played almost every single role (except I think for A. Ham - correct me if I'm wrong on that)!

Glad Taran was awesome! I think this is such a good role for him. You really need a comedian like that to play the role!

Seriously, everyone in the cast is amazing. It's clear they have high standards for their casting!!!

I saw him post a few weeks ago that the first time he played Burr meant he had played every party he was "understudied" for. I think that includes Burr, Lafayette/Jefferson, Madison/Mulligan, Laurens/Philip... I think that's all of them, but damn!

WAIT did he play King George once, too? The internet says yes!

[mysticmuffin]

Jan 19, 2017 10:10:58 GMT -5 knx9211 said:

Jan 19, 2017 0:29:40 GMT -5 jennybee1018 said:

Is there anything Chappelle can't do? He's been a lifesaver for them! I think he's played almost every single role (except I think for A. Ham - correct me if I'm wrong on that)!

Glad Taran was awesome! I think this is such a good role for him. You really need a comedian like that to play the role!

Seriously, everyone in the cast is amazing. It's clear they have high standards for their casting!!!

I saw him post a few weeks ago that the first time he played Burr meant he had played every party he was "understudied" for. I think that includes Burr, Lafayette/Jefferson, Madison/Mulligan, Laurens/Philip... I think that's all of them, but damn!

WAIT did he play King George once, too? The internet says yes!

Yes, he did. The Hamilcast podcast did an interview with him a couple weeks ago (Episode 48) that was great. He talked at length about playing all of those different roles, the first time he almost went on for Burr and then when he did.

They also did a 2-part interview with Michael Luwoye (Episodes 50 & 51) that was great too.

[blueberry10]

I'm going this afternoon! Looking forward to a brief escape from all of the Cheeto bullshit.

[georgeglass]

Just bought tickets for June!

[jennybee1018]

Jan 25, 2017 11:13:49 GMT -5 blueberry10 said:

I'm going this afternoon! Looking forward to a brief escape from all of the Cheeto bullshit.

Squeeeee!!! Have fun!!!!

[thebulldog]

we are coming up on the year anniversary of this thread.

[krystee]

I'll help keep it going! We booked Chicago tickets for only $62! Sadly, the show is not until October.