You dumdums haven't polled the delight cast recording of Hamilton yet; let me help

Abbs, I have a theory about why we like George Washington so much (Chris Jackson does have a beautiful voice, though). In his scenes with Hamilton he so often sounds like a teacher talking to a student. Like, the best, kindest teacher ever.

The Washington-Hamilton dynamic reminds me of Jay-Z and Bleek on Coming of Age

one last time is fkn beautiful, i love it

I love Lin and Chris Jackson. I saw In the Heights with the almost original cast (a few regulars had been subbed, but mostly originals), and Lin/Chris autographed my playbill. Lin came out with a Pac-Man shirt on.

wishing I voted for Wait For It

can this be a weekly poll, my fave keeps changing

I'd rather be divisive
than indecisive
drop the niceties!

Lately I've been listening for all the little themes in the music, where they reoccur and how they change. The Duel theme for instance (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, niiiiine) is also Phillips theme, which makes sense in a cynical sort of way, but it's also repeated in the first cabinet battle. It's a theme, both for violence and competition, but also for education and codification. Civilization just as a more regulated way of doing violence.

2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama

:D

and if you can name two of the 5 winners before that, you work in theatre.

LMM uploaded some demo recordings to Soundcloud--kind of nuts to hear him singing "Satisfied" and "My Shot" has a bunch of extra Hercules Mulligan lyrics

@tinyrevolution
“A free people ought to be constantly awake” -- actual 1796 Farewell Address of George "Woke" Washington

@dick_nixon
Hamilton was more of a son of a bitch, and thus more interesting, than they make him out to be.

Hamilton was more of a son of a bitch whore and a Scotsman

My wife's the reason anything gets done.
She nudges me towards promise by degrees.
She is a perfect symphony of one.
Our son is her most beautiful reprise.
We chase the melodies that seem to find us
Until they're finished songs and start to play.
When senseless acts of tragedy remind us
That nothing here is promised, not one day
This show is proof that history remembers.
We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger.
We rise and fall, and light from dying embers
Remembrances that hope and love last longer.
And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love;
Cannot be killed or swept aside.
I sing Vanessa's symphony; Eliza tells her story.
Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.

that was fkn beautiful, my face was made of tears

xxpost fyi that's not really nixon

wait so ilx likes this? it just seems like the worst thing i've ever heard of

it's fucking great get on board

fight me xp

otm

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h97V3O1jlLw/UQ_qKHtscqI/AAAAAAAAJrA/QNTG7Ebb5LU/s1600/tumblr_lxcv3hSIUo1qlll6ko1_500.png

i'm not really interested in getting into it, i'll leave the thread and you can all enjoy it and i'll continue to watch clips of it on youtube and wonder what the fuck is wrong with everyone

good idea, it was designed to be seen via mobile phone bootleg on youtube, so you're definitely getting a legit understanding of why it is bad and terrible

also when you hate something it's smart and healthy to keep watching it over and over. you can prove how right you are, to yourself!

I really really like Hamilton but don't like the lyrics Frederick B posted, so who do I fight?

lin

it's the sonnet he wrote as his Tony acceptance

earnest note to morbs who prob doesnt care: complaining about historical accuracy wrt hamilton is missing the point.

it's like saying that les miz isnt an accurate portrayal of the french revolution to the ppl bawling at "I dreamed a dream"

it's the sonnet he wrote as his Tony acceptance

Oh that's why it didn't sound familiar!

Don't care for it but I mean obviously my standards for award acceptance speech are a lot lower than my standards for actual writing so I withdraw my objection. Lin lives to fight another day.

I'd go if this actually happens.

it me

http://youtu.be/4mrN_Bx9H2Q

It's not the best sonnet ever, it's really not even a sonnet, but he wrote it in a day, where he also had a lot of other things to do. So, like, points to him. I think the punctuation is off in what I quoted, btw. Or, I can't really get all the lines to make sense at once.

ilx takes a break from GoT teleplay workshopping to try out some Award Show poetry workshopping

it's really not even a sonnet

otm

Here's the link I took the transcription from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/playwrights/the-english-poet-who-inspired-lin-manuel-mirandas-tonys-sonnet/ Even though it's kinda not strictly speaking their 'content', I should probably still have offered up the link. The writer argues, that it's a 'literary masterstroke', because the wrong way Miranda writes the sonnet is like some other poet, who wrote about love differently. So it's 'subversive' or something. Honestly, I think he just wrote 16 lines because it's easier, and he did it in one day.

It didn't help the form that LMM just started repeating "and love" in the middle of the poem

But you know maybe he'll polish it up and read the revision when the adaptation wins an Oscar

No no, you don't see, he repeated love because it's so important that it breaks the meter of the sonnet!

more likely he did it because it made the audience whoop

(I suspect that he got lost and repeated it a few times to many, though. We'll see. There's talk of using it on prints to raise money for charity, somehow, then we can see how it's supposed to read)

And love cannot be killed or swept aside.
I sing Vanessa's symphony; Eliza tells her story.
Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.

scans a bit better than:

And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love;
Cannot be killed or swept aside.
I sing Vanessa's symphony; Eliza tells her story.
Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.

Yeah, but:

This show is proof that history remembers.
We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger.
We rise and fall, and light from dying embers
Remembrances that hope and love last longer.
And love cannot be killed or swept aside.
I sing Vanessa's symphony; Eliza tells her story.
Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.

Seems quite lacking.

I suspect it's meant to be:

And love is love is love is love is love is
Love cannot be killed or swept aside.
I sing Vanessa's symphony; Eliza tells her story.
Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.

We'll see. Or better: Poll!

sometimes you guys really are the fucking worst

pull off the wings and peel away the layers and "well it's not really very good at all is it"

i mean fuckin god forbid it moves someone in its imperfect form

It moved me! And not 'in spite of' but kinda because of it's imperfections. I love how spontaneous, how honest, how in the moment Lin-Manuel Miranda always is. He is one of my very big idols at the moment.

sorry, that was a pre-coffee rant lol

I taught kids how to write sonnets last year and some went the lazy route of literally writing like
dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog dog
friend friend friend friend friend friend friend friend friend friend
frog frog frog frog frog frog frog frog frog frog
end end end end end end end end end end end

so the "love is love is love is love" part made me giggle to myself a little for seeming at first to channel a lazy seventh grader
but in the end I think it worked and it's in the SMALL POWERFUL WORDS and STRENGTH THROUGH REPETITION categories

also why am I not married to that romantical fucker

i'd see this if it were possible for reg'lar humans to get/afford tix

I have to live with it through cast recording like all us yokels in flyover country do w/Broadway

me too

soundtrack is closest thing to seeing it most of us can get