Founding Father Fandom: Hamilton

i love daveed's laughter at the end of that clip

 

It's so beautifully extra

 

ohh my god!! oh my god

"just tell him burr might win"

burr's INCREASED EXHAUSTED DESPERATION on the "honestly it's kinda draining" line and its lead up

Jefferson being even more awful hot damn that laughter is giving me heart palpitations

 

AAA THEY HAVE THE WORKSHOP VERSION OF YOUR OBEDIENT SERVANT TOO http://bwuhbwuhbwuhbwuhbwuh.tumblr....to-the-workshop-version-and?is_related_post=1 THIS IS AMAZING

 

Oh. OH. I have gotten 30 seconds into this and I know what's happening. This version is actually paralleling the letters they wrote to each other, which started with a third party tattling to Burr about an insult Ham made in a private letter. Omg. omg accuracy.

Here's a link to that thing again. Yeah, it's a direct parallel in this original version that they changed to a more fabricated but evocative conversation the second time around. I think it was a good choice, the musical version is a lot more forceful, sounds better both lyrically and rhythmically, and is waaaay easier to follow than a summary of the actual verbose letters.

But I am really glad LMM did at one point turn their actual pre-duel correspondence into a rap battle.

 

ITS SO MUCH WORDIER AND MEANER

 

The replacement of 'good man' with 'young man' is doing feels to me

 

There's a whole playlist of the workshop versions

 

omg why didn't they keep this version of Schyler Defeated + Let It Go

Instead of Burr having already won the Senate seat, he's running and Eliza finds out and is all "fuck, i gotta find ur dad before he kills someone" and then when things get heated between Hamilton and Burr she shows up all "HI BURR HOW'S YOUR WIFE AND KIDS? OH LOOK AT THE TIME WE HAVE TO GO"

and alex is like "but but but!" and eliza sings "let it gooooooooooo" and then washington shows up out of fucking nowhere because moiraillegance is magic

 

So I was doing my obligatory read-through-the-TVTropes-page and I found a statement that Jefferson gives a copy of the Reynolds Pamphlet to the conductor, @blue can you confirm because that's amazing

 

oh fuck, I didn't see him do that but I would be completely unsurprised

that's amazing

 

hello hi i am a new convert as of saturday pls welcome me into the fold

 

Oh btw, my moirail found another bootleg. It's the same show just higher quality

 

! ! ! ! ! how exciting

 

@Mala
ooh i'd be interested in a bootleg if possible please!! i finally have convinced my sister to be interested in the thing

 

I didn't know there was help for my condition

 

I had that problem just yesterday when I saw



Ah, so you've discussed me. I'm a trust fund baby, you can trust me.

 

cause of death: remembering these lines from the last two songs

Spoiler: rip in peace my heart

The World Was Wide Enough:
[HAMILTON]
My love, take your time
I’ll see you on the other side

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story:
[ELIZA]
Oh, I can’t wait to see you again
It’s only a matter of time

lies down on the floor, this play for some reason is my elemental weakness like if pokemon was about making people cry

 

CHECK THIS OUT

Hamilton cleaned up 11 awards, and for what I think is the first time - all the major actor awards went to people of color. And - ok they didn't use the muskets this show, because of Orlando. And changing blocking, even so much as stopping a prop, on a day's notice, but still pulling the show off and bringing the house down, is incredible. And just, the raw emotion - Lin tears up 'gotta meet my son!' and everything and.

MY EMOTIONS.

 

I love how you really don't notice the muskets missing. It doesn't look strange at all!