Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network
Show Name: Hyperfixation Nation
Episode Title: All About Hamilton: The Musical
Episode #5
You are listening to Hyperfixation Nation, the podcast with your host Blake.
In this episode of Hyperfixation Nation the Podcast, I will talk about the musical Hamilton and how it broke all Broadway standards. I will cover how it is different from every other Broadway musical, where it was historically accurate vs. when an artistic license was taken, and my opinion on some of the characters' decisions.
Segment 1: Introduction to the topic
So we’ve got the music, the actors, and the politics in the show that are different from most Broadway musicals previously. We’ve got the creative license that Lin Manuel Miranda took because it made the story more interesting, it rhymed, or it was just easier to put in the show. And we’ve got the slightly controversial decisions of the characters like Burr shooting Hamilton and Washington serving the amount of time he did.
Segment 2: How Hamilton is different from previous Broadway musicals!
- Music
- Rap
- Hip-hop
- R&B
- Soul
- Traditional show tunes
- Black and brown actors were on stage but the story doesn’t depict any slaves
- Lin-Manuel Miranda, the person who wrote the music, is Puerto Rican and wanted to incorporate the feeling of being sidelined into the music and Alexander Hamilton's character but also wanted to go against the white-washing of history. There is a musical with an all-white cast that is a show about a similar time that portrays the story in a much different and could be called racist, way.
- Having people of color play white historical figures flips the tradition of white people in blackface being on stage.
- It showcases the good and bad things that these founding fathers did
- Sally Hemmings for example
- Say no to this
- The relationship between Angelica and Hamilton
- The politics/political stand that this musical represents
- Laurens especially being very for an all-black military force
- Black actors playing the all-white Founding Fathers
- The layers of the
