Hamilton isn’t that good and is like 7 songs too long
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Anonymous
This response is a bit much. Take a beat, hon. |
Anonymous
Not PP, but this is not a mark of quality. Andrew Lloyd Weber has produced numerous long-running, hit musicals despite many of them being absolutely awful. Cats ran for 18 years. Broadway audiences are loaded with tourists who just want to go to a show someone back home will have heard of (or see a star they'll have heard, thus the long-running trend of casting big name Hollywood actors in shows, whether they have the chops or not), and are not known for their good taste. Yes, there are also successful shows that are genuinely good, but Hamilton has several trademarks of a very overrated show -- a gimmicky premise, heavy exposure in mainstream (non-Broadway) media, and the the original cast was legitimately wonderful and produced a number of real stars. People will continue to line up for it for years to come, whether it's good or not, because it has the aura of being a Broadway hit that their Aunt Janet will be jealous they saw. |
Anonymous
“Somehow” Entemann’s sells lots of donuts, too. Doesn’t make them good. And the “somehow” isn’t hard to pinpoint: the masses have bad taste. |
Anonymous
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Hamilton was the first musical my teens connected with and after listening as a family thousands of times to to the point we all knew every word it was .magical when we all saw it together on Broadway.
And it sparked an interest in American history in my kids. Different shows have different effects on folks. My favorite show ever was Matilda.... |
Anonymous
Well, thank god we have so many sophisticates here on DCUM to correct the tastes of the common folk. |
Anonymous
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Earlier poster here. Everyone who's got their nose in the air about Hamilton is a snob. Can we only like the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein or Sondheim to be accepted into the upper echelons of good taste? Get over yourselves.
Theater, and specifically musical theater, has room for all of us. And as far as Hamilton goes, I loved the original cast recording. Wore it out. Memorized the whole thing. We went to see it on stage and I deeply disliked it. The bare set was great, but the lines were lost in a poor sound system and everything about the choreography was so busy and distracting that, IMO, it nearly sunk the entire experience. I've also stayed away from watching it on TV via streaming. |
Anonymous
OMG, what would we unwashed peasants here do without you??? |
Anonymous
Sondheim said he liked Hamilton. (Of course, he also had a rule not to criticize the work of his living colleagues.) |
Anonymous
How dare you |
Anonymous
Wow, chip on your shoulder, much? I loved Hamilton for several of the songs, plus Daveed Diggs. More than that, what I loved was pushing the boundaries of a Broadway show, something that hadn't been done before, and wasn't considered possible. The words per minute. Hamilton, 144/minute Phantom as an example was 68/minute They also told an expected story in an unexpected way. Basically, they pushed the envelope. |
Anonymous
| I've read through the thread. You've got every kind of snob posting. |
Anonymous
| What are the 7 songs you would cut? |
Anonymous
| Eliza and the last song always make me cry. |
Anonymous
Really intrigued by this question… |
Anonymous
Hello Rip Van Wrinkle! The musical came out in 2015! Have you been sleeping all this time? |