In this episode, we tackle Lin Manuel Miranda's 2015 Hamilton. We look at the Political moment that it found itself in the insane fandom that formed around it and the fact that it is just so good even when we try to be cynical about it.
LINKS:
Deadline review: https://deadline.com/2015/02/musical-hamilton-opens-public-theater-1201375233/
Guardian review: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/feb/18/hamilton-review-founding-father-gets-a-hip-hop-makeover
Tony nominations
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/theater/hamilton-tony-nominations-record.html
Tony wins
List of Pulitzer Prize Winning Musicals
https://www.bothsidesofthecurtain.com/post/pulitzer-prize-winning-musicals
Hamilton toping Hip Hop charts
Meta critic
https://www.metacritic.com/music/hamilton-an-american-musical-original-broadway-cast-recording
Synopsis
https://playbill.com/production/hamilton-richard-rodgers-theatre-vault-0000014104
Performance at the white house:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNFf7nMIGnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R5dKwvtjlg
Mike Pences Trip to Hamilton
Harriet Tubman on the 10 Dollar Bill
The Mixtape/ Found Tonight:
https://hamiltonmusical.fandom.com/wiki/Hamildrops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzE_HCK_gVo
https://marchforourlives.com/mission-story/
https://hamiltonmusical.fandom.com/wiki/One_Last_Time_(44_Remix)
The Album Sales
The Proshot
Lin vs Bottlegs
Hamilton documentaries
The books
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26200563-hamilton?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=MU0u57PjSK&rank=3
https://www.proquest.com/hnpnewyorktimes/docview/2309933185/8336E70B1EFC44ADPQ/3?accountid=9730
Fandom stuff and behaviour
https://www.mtv.com/news/rb4x2r/hamilton-musical-revolutionizing-fandom
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/22/hamilton-teenage-superfans-this-is-like-crazy-cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P_-UCjtU4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNyIuUixY6U