#I have no idea who this guy is but for the past 800 pages Brandon’s been trying to remind me
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nemmiril · 19 days ago
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Wat chapter 81 spoilers:
Oh look. The Bridge four member without a single spoken line nor perspective shot is fighting under another Bridge four member and reminiscing.
Oh look, he’s seen the known Bridge four betrayer and member killer and is engaging anyway.
I wonder what’s going to happen to him…
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thefederalistfreestyle · 7 years ago
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[. . .] Six years later, what started that night as Miranda’s ‘Hamilton Mixtape’ opened on Broadway as an utterly audacious hip-hop musical about the immigrant experience and the birth of America. That was in 2015. By 2016 ticket sales had passed the $100 million mark and Hamilton had become a cultural phenomenon percolating into everyday life from music to fashion to politics to classrooms. It was the smartest, most unobtainable ticket in town, had won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as a Grammy and 11 Tony Awards. Seats were being touted for as much as $10,000. The show is to begin a London run in December, and there has been a stampede for seats at the newly refurbished Victoria Palace Theatre. Some tickets are rumoured to have already changed hands for up to £2,500 apiece, such is the excitement surrounding the biggest West End opening of the year. Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who is bringing Hamilton to the UK, is confident it will all translate for a British audience. ‘I didn’t feel it was any more American than Les Misérables is Parisian,’ he says. ‘It feels entirely contemporary. You realise that nothing much has changed – a bunch of American politicians fighting to create a country are not so very different from a bunch of American politicians fighting to run it now, or indeed our own British politicians.’ Yet the genesis of Hamilton predates the current global controversy about immigration, stoked in the US by the presidency of Donald Trump and by Britain’s Brexit vote. In fact it began back in 2008, when Miranda picked up historian Ron Chernow’s definitive 800-page biography of the founding father at an airport bookshop to read on holiday in Mexico. There’s a now famous picture of the composer lying in his hammock with his head buried between the book’s covers. ‘That biography is incredible,’ Miranda says. ‘It out-Dickenses Charles Dickens, the improbability of where this guy started from and where he got to. He was someone who, on the strength of his words and ideas, pulled himself from unbelievably humble circumstances to the top of the nation. ‘The second Hamilton writes a poem to get himself off the island, I was like, “Well, that’s very hip-hop.” To literally write verse that gets you out of your circumstances, verse that’s about how terrible your circumstances are. I mean, that’s everyone from Jay-Z and Marcy [Marcy Houses in Brooklyn, where Jay-Z grew up] to Lil Wayne writing about Hurricane Katrina. He transcends the struggle, and if you look at your favourite rapper, that’s most likely what they did.’ Miranda himself comes from a comfortable background in north Manhattan – though he is only one generation away from the hardship faced by many Hispanic immigrants. His father arrived speaking no English as a teenager from Puerto Rico, eventually rising to become a political consultant to New York Mayor Ed Koch. His mother, also originally from Puerto Rico, is a psychologist. He still lives in his native city, married to his long-time love Vanessa, a corporate lawyer, with whom he has a toddler son, Sebastian. He has been a musical polyglot since boyhood, as fluent in salsa, R&B and the Broadway tradition as he is in the hip-hop genre that has now made both his name and his fortune. So, for example, his early scene-setting song, My Shot, which establishes Hamilton’s brilliance and ambition, draws on Going Back To Cali by The Notorious BIG, the Rogers and Hammerstein classic You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught from South Pacific and, finally, a little bit of Busta Rhymes. [. . .] Unsurprisingly perhaps, Donald Trump has not been to see it. But he did get involved in a Twitter war with the cast after Brandon Dixon, who played vice president Aaron Burr on Broadway, addressed the then vice president-elect Mike Pence from the stage when he was in the audience. Referring to the cast’s ethnic diversity and the musical’s celebration of immigration, Dixon called on the Trump-Pence administration to ‘uphold American values’. This ambushing of a senior Trump administration politician caused a storm of controversy in the US, where Hamilton’s creation and successful run had been so closely aligned with President Obama’s time in the White House. The former president is, of course, himself the son of an immigrant. Whether the London cast will pull a similar move on any British politicians remains to be seen. So far the drama has been limited to fan fury over a start date that has been pushed back for the most prosaic of reasons: building work at the Victoria Palace, home to Billy Elliot for the past 11 years, has over-run. Due to begin in November, previews will now take place in December. The anticipation is building, and Miranda himself is among those who love the idea of Hamilton opening in Britain, the country whose 18th-century dominance of America gave way to the creation of a new nation, crafted by the hands of Alexander Hamilton. ‘The support we have received from our British fans has been incredible, he says. ‘I’ve been reminded of their love, which is just as our King George would want it to be.’   [. . .]
A hip-hop musical about an illegitimate dandy who helped America defeat George III and England? Yo, bro! As Hamilton lands in the West End, the show’s creator reveals how he turned revolutionary rap into Broadway gold (Daily Mail)
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