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

My current fave is "Say No To This" though my all-time is "Satisfied"

just posted for the laffs as i have avoided everything to do with this show so far

America is a place where the poor, through “sheer force of will”, can rise to prominence, and Hamilton has diversity in it. That means you can feel good about seeing it: no guilt for seeing dead white men in a positive light required. It contains hip-hop, an edgy, up-and-coming genre with only 37 years of mainstream exposure. It only costs $1,200 a ticket if you can stand bad seats.

Kings George I and II of England were barely able to speak English and spent more time dealing with their own failsons than ruling the Empire — but they gave patronage to Handel. Ludwig II of Bavaria was believed to be insane and went into debt to compulsively build castles — but he gave patronage to Wagner. Obama deported more immigrants than any other president and expanded the drone program in order to kill almost 3,500 people — but he gave patronage to a nerdcore musical.

https://medium.com/@lowenaffchen/you-should-be-terrified-that-people-who-enjoy-hamilton-run-our-country-a67f4ad11f2b#.9xod1g8jk

God forbid anyone enjoy anything jfc

written equivalent of the phrase "WELL ACTUALLY..."

well i did vomit at your fannish mention of the Obamas nodding so

Hamilton was the literally the original big bank capitalist. He would definitely be pro free trade agreements today.

Since the live stream I've been obsessed with My Shot. The last verse is probably the most impressive lyric in the musical, just the way it goes: where I come from some get half as many' for example. And the way it develops from introspection into pure energy with 'I'm past patiently waiting / I'm passionately smashing every expectation'

xpost you vomit when anyone says their name in a sentence, let's be real

hamilton was a pro-manufacturing pro-tariff protectionist, arguing that he would favor free trade today is about as silly as trying to decide how he would vote in this poll

he would vote for Hurricane imo

Morbs has beliefs, ILX has none

if we stand for nothing what will we fall for?

Manti Te'Os hot g/f

the Hamilton OF THIS MUSICAL would vote for "Room Where It Happens" bcz it's all about watching Burr squirm

say what you want about the oval office performance; i for one thought it was a nice oment to have the Obamas REQUEST omseone come in and sing "Lock up your daughters and horses, of course/It’s hard to have intercourse over four sets of corsets…" in front of some hardscrabble teens
a moment for libertine history

http://the-toast.net/2015/12/17/report-on-alexander-hamilton-written-by-a-kid-who-has-only-listened-to-the-musical/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O4EKucKv7w

I can't believe how hard all of you are sleeping on "Take a Break."

it makes me want to go on vacation so bad

i voted for Satisfied in the end

the "i know my sister like i know my own mind" refrain gets me right in the feels, the song is a v succinct sketch of an oldest/middle sister dynamic, while also underlining the power of intellectual attraction ... and i like how it works structurally w/r/t helpless

Yeah, "Satisfied" is probably the best overall, especially in the live show (braggin: I was incredibly lucky and was able to see the show in October and I've listened to the soundtrack pretty much constantly since, save a two-week break for Bowie). I have a new favorite every few days.

xpost By Simpsons parody I just meant it seems like such a surreal subject for a hip-hop musical. Sure, I guess all musicals are sort of surreal, but I thought the combination of genre and subject was particularly random. Glad it's doing well, looking forward to seeing it, loved "In the Heights."

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Treasury or State?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1mYfsNFtGI

so good

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I can't believe how hard all of you are sleeping on "Take a Break."

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p sure i am stealing this from an Abbs facebook post, but every time i get really stressed out at work, i start muttering to myself, i cant stop till i get this plan through congress.

say no to this is a well-constructed song, and i love jasmine cephas-jones's voice, but i can't listen to it.

p sure i did not vote because i cannot choose.

also p sure angelica having such a minimal role is supposed to feel janky and off because it's supposed to reflect the mismatch between her talents + potential and her opportunities

these are the things about which i am p sure

also p sure if you don't like musicals, that's fine and valid but gtfo of this thread

GUYS I SAW THIS MUSICAL (don't hate me) AND CAN I JUST TELL YOU THAT CHRIS JACKSON RADIATES GOODNESS AND LIGHT AND THAT "ONE LAST TIME" MADE ME CRY?

so did "Immigrants! We get the job done." it's been a rough campaign season.

i have no use for the historical George Washington but Lin-Manuel Miranda's version, as played by Chris Jackson, is my model for living.

no lie i cried a lot while watching this musical

I cried through much more of Fiddler on the Roof than I expected to, I think there's something about musicals

"ONE LAST TIME" MADE ME CRY

every time I hear this song I feel like MAN, the dude just GAVE UP his seat, how often does that happen
did not like that one at first but now "everyone must sit under their own vine and fig tree" makes me get all sniffle-misty basically every time

washington is my favorite minor-ish character on the whole album, I think
or maybe i jusgt like his voice the best

also i watched red tails recently, after years of telling myself an aaron mcgruder/george lucas collab had to be worth SOMETHING
and i was like 'omg arron burr!'

http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/466505/466505_full.jpg

"Hamilton" makes me cry because my mom just spent my inheritance on two tickets.

I cried like the tiniest baby all through the 2nd act. Giant, snotty tears.

Also, not a single vote for King George?

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

there's a lot going on in encanto but perhaps even more fatally it doesn't support anything substantial. there's magic, it goes away, it comes back. the climax is a quiet conversation! which maybe in one way is an admirable change from an epic action setpiece but it's not really compelling viewing.

xp, i thought frozen ii was a trying-too-hard mess.

Yeah, really didn't like Frozen II.

More importantly, how did "You'll Be Back," the best song in Hamilton, not get a single vote in this poll?

I mean, even Frozen I is better than Moana... (IMO, of course)

Just saw a group of elementary school kids singing "We Don't Talk About Bruno," in unison... the guy can write a hit.

Fwiw, I don't hate the "swole sister" song; it's kind of fascinatingly grating (...it's a choice, anyway). It also apparently hit #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week(!):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErY3eeRFTFg

Speaking of which, you guys also gotta hear the big showstopper from Vivo (just as I had to hear it, about 10x/day last month):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lPPysB6bGA

(seems there's also a remix w/Missy Elliott)

I think the Surface Pressure song is great.

I dunno, I don't get the hype over "Bruno", tbh. I thought "Surface Pressure" was the best song in that flick by a wide margin.

"Bruno" is kind of its "Agatha All Along."

The opening song was really busy, and I wasn't sure I'd like the movie, but "Surface Pressure" and Isabella's song were better, and I got more into it. I really liked that the story and the conflict were almost entirely within the house, within the family. But it's still a lower tier Disney movie - Frozen 2 is the only recent one I recall liking less

So, "Bruno" is the first Disney song to hit number one in 30 years, and the first number one song in four years with only one songwriter. And, needless to day, Lin-Manuel's first number one. Also apparently a record for most number of credited performers on a number one, too (6). Add it to the list.

The opening song was really busy

It always makes me think of the "Tiny Toons Adventures" theme! (rapidly listing off the characters and their attributes, etc.)

otm, a lot of cartoon theme songs did that. I think I was probably overwhelmed by those songs the first time I heard them too - probably more fun the second and third time you watch it

I was just talking in the music theory thread about how Waiting on a Miracle represents everything a lot of things I hate about modern broadway composition, the melody sounds so noodly and random. We Don't Talk About Bruno is certainly catchy but I can't really say it's *good*, same with the Family Madrigal song. Overall agree that the movie was kind of a mess but the kids loved it. Definitely underwhelming. A lot of the family seemed like assholes tbh.

I guess in that sense it was a realistic portrayal of a family, except then it set itself up for the impossible resolution that everyone in the messed up family just learns to stop being messed up.

Ooof, 72k in sales is all it takes ...

it says 11k in the bit you quoted!

except then it set itself up for the impossible resolution that everyone in the messed up family just learns to stop being messed up.

Yeah that bothered me a bit. I mean it's a kid's movie whatchagonnado but I couldn't believe in particular that the grandma would do such a 180

xpost I think it said "had the equivalent of 72,000 sales," whatever that means.

150 streams is the equivalent of one song sale. So like 10.8 million streams.

Wtf

https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/a-texas-church-illegal-performed-hamilton-to-spread-anti-gay-bigotry/