[Magdalen] Hamilton, Hamilton, Hamilton...

[Jay Weigel]

I would love to see "Hamilton". And one of my takes on it is that anything
that interests young people in history (and this seems to be doing it!)
can't be all bad.

I suspect if you were to actually SEE it, your opinion might change, Scott.
The little snippets of production that I've seen are delightful.

just my $.02,
Jay

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:46 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Today, it seems, the Broadway musical Hamilton has exploded here in
> Chicago. Is it opening night or something?
>
> Anyway, I was at Barnes & Noble (they still exist!) in Evanston, and
> they started playing the original cast recording throughout the store.
> Not the way I prefer to be introduced to a musical (I'd rather just go
> and see it, but I haven't got the sort of money it takes right now),
> and my impression was that it was some tight singing with frequent
> inserts of spoken historical context. I've seen some parodies of bad
> local musical productions where students write a play like that: sing
> a couple lines, declare something. Of course the quality of the
> recording was high, but it didn't make me want to see it. And at every
> turn in the store there was suddenly some Hamilton-related display.
> Overkill!
>
> I guess I'm glad it wasn't an explosion of Christmas. Macy's is
> handling that annual chore. Oh, the insipid "carols" (about reindeer
> and snowmen, not the Oxford Book of Carols variety) are already
> a-crooning. Can't there be new ones? Does the whole "holiday season"
> have to be about vapid nostalgia?
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>