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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 14 Jul 2020

      We finally watched Hamilton the past two nights. I have no especially novel insights: it's that good. It's highly historically literate, despite a few dramatic liberties. The score is musically varied, by no means all rap, & highly witty. Gets at the human dynamics.

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 14 Jul 2020

      I was only really irked by casting a big, burly guy as James Madison. Washington was appropriately commanding. Election of 1800 glosses the procedural fights in favor of the human elements. I was surprised it played down how Hamilton's troops at Yorktown were black.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 14 Jul 2020

      The funniest scene-stealing, scenery-chewing lines all go to George III and Lafayette/Jefferson. The Lee/Laurens duel was an especially strong foreshadowing choice involving 2 prominent men now little-remembered. Making the assumption of state debts a winning musical number: A+

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 14 Jul 2020

      The dual-casting of multiple roles seems odd until you remember that this was by no means expected to be a commercially successful show when it was first put together.

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 14 Jul 2020

          If you have family members who have issues with rap: my 84 yo mother in law enjoyed it. Granted, she'd read Chernow's book, so she was able to follow the story even when she could not follow the singers.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 14 Jul 2020

          Aaron Burr, Charles Lee, John Laurens, and Hercules Mulligan get exactly the commemoration in the show that they deserve.

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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 14 Jul 2020

          Washington is always the most important casting decision in any dramatization of the American Founding. A talented performer can bring Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, etc. to life. But GW had a *presence* you can't fake.

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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 14 Jul 2020

          And I definitely nerded out watching the scene detailing who wrote how many Federalist Papers.

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        2. Jake Tapper‏Verified account @jaketapper 14 Jul 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank

          Nah there’s more to it than that when you consider the dual roles and the lines in the opening song: We, fought with him Me, I died for him Me, I trusted him Me, I loved him...

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 14 Jul 2020
          Replying to @jaketapper

          @adambonin I see it as kind of a dual thing, like how economizing on his traveling band forced Springsteen to make Clarence Clemons his horn section.

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        1. Adam Bonin‏ @adambonin 14 Jul 2020
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          no it was an intentional dramatic choice. LMM has discussed.

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        1. Robert A George  🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇹🇹‏Verified account @RobGeorge 14 Jul 2020
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          I'm not so sure about that, Dan. LMM's prior show, "In The Heights," was a commercial smash. His follow-up was much anticipated. He teased "Hamilton" at WH poetry slam in 2009 in a clip that went viral. Folks knew this was going to be successful. HOW successful was a a shock.

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        1. Alan Cole‏Verified account @AlanMCole 14 Jul 2020
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          There are some good dramatic reasons for it; it's directly replacing the people who love and support him with people who hate him or engineer his failure, which fits with the dramatic arc

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