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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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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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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