^^^We don’t know… no one else was there!
@rebeccar Touche!
Funny, guys and gals.
@Waiting2exhale #158 Yes, we would in fact disagree with that statement. I would also bet that most who would say that have have limited knowledge hip hop.
@CaliCash: I doubt very much that LMM would speak that way of his own work in relation to the soil out of which it was grown. Artists generally don’t.
Who is watching the Tony’s tonight?
I am!
I’m the one who sings and writes music; my wife is the theatre practitioner. So she has the Hamilton soundtrack on her phone and in CD form. I have, thus, heard the entire thing both in her car (she names her cars. this one is Chuck) and in our house. I must say, some of the songs are pretty good and, overall, there’s obviously interesting and provocative historical content and cool music.
Oops, sorry. Just realized the Tonys are NEXT week. I guess I can’t wait!
I made the same mistake earlier this week, @FallGirl, and feel the same way. Something to look forward to for next Sunday night! As mentioned upthread, we can get a little fix tomorrow night on James Corden’s show when LMM is part of the carpool karaoke.
I have a feeling that they will film this live and and show in theaters, but suspect not for a few years.>>>>
I wish they would for those of us who will otherwise never see it.
USA Today’s Life section has two articles about Hamilton going on tour. http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/theater/2016/06/05/broadway-smash-hamilton-hits-road-national-tour/32624331/
One note about people who will not be able to afford to see Hamilton: they will most likely be able to see a lot of things that will be influenced by Hamilton.
Those kids from Fun Home were lip synching in the video posted at #99. That really bothers me. I think it is blasphemy for anyone on Broadway to do that. I much preferred the video of the kids doing the spoof of the Schuyler sisters. Was it perfect? No, but that’s part of the charm.
Schuyler Sisters Miscast
https://youtu.be/vYmavCsp8Hs
And Joshua Colley … OMG he is a STAR! 
^^^They were AWESOME!
Here is something to ponder - in the future, when Hamilton hits high schools and community theatre, will it continue to be cast with people of color? Will it be like The Wiz or Hairspray, with the race of the cast seen as important, or a few decades from now, will suburban high schools end up staging the show w/o people of color? (I haven’t seen any of the local HS productions of In the Heights to know how they are being cast, but here in Texas it’s not at all difficult to find theatre kids with a Hispanic background.)
Interesting question, mp. FWIW when D’s middle school staged “The Wiz” the cast was mixed racially, but most were white as that is who went out for the musical. There were tryouts for the big roles, no one was cut and any student could be in the chorus.
It was the Easter Bonnet competition and these are children. Hardly blasphemy to prerecord their number, especially when it includes a substantial amount of movement. The other issue is that the sound is rarely good at the Easter Bonnets, and with kids, you want to be sure that the audience can hear them. This is more an industry event for BCEFA to celebrate the fundraising efforts done for six weeks by Broadway, off-Broadway and touring casts, rather than a performance for the public.
Carpool karaoke with some Broadway greats:
@missypie:
It totally depends on where the kids live. Given how segregated many schools are in this country, there are schools that unless they brought in kids from other districts, they likely would not have a diverse cast. If Morristown High (a town near where I live) put on Hamilton, they would have no trouble, given that the high school is diverse, but in other surrounding towns it is likely the cast might be mostly white with some Asian or South Asian kids in the cast, simply because the school itself has few non white kids…not about discrimination in casting, more like discrimination in how housing works in many places.