i have no use for the historical George Washington but Lin-Manuel Miranda's version, as played by Chris Jackson, is my model for living.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:29 (eight years ago) link
no lie i cried a lot while watching this musical
― horseshoe, Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
I cried through much more of Fiddler on the Roof than I expected to, I think there's something about musicals
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:32 (eight years ago) link
"ONE LAST TIME" MADE ME CRY
every time I hear this song I feel like MAN, the dude just GAVE UP his seat, how often does that happendid not like that one at first but now "everyone must sit under their own vine and fig tree" makes me get all sniffle-misty basically every time
washington is my favorite minor-ish character on the whole album, I thinkor maybe i jusgt like his voice the best
― no one in particular (Abbott), Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:53 (eight years ago) link
also i watched red tails recently, after years of telling myself an aaron mcgruder/george lucas collab had to be worth SOMETHINGand i was like 'omg arron burr!'
http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/466505/466505_full.jpg
― no one in particular (Abbott), Thursday, 31 March 2016 00:55 (eight years ago) link
"Hamilton" makes me cry because my mom just spent my inheritance on two tickets.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 31 March 2016 02:21 (eight years ago) link
I cried like the tiniest baby all through the 2nd act. Giant, snotty tears.
― kate78, Thursday, 31 March 2016 03:11 (eight years ago) link
Also, not a single vote for King George?
Abbs, I have a theory about why we like George Washington so much (Chris Jackson does have a beautiful voice, though). In his scenes with Hamilton he so often sounds like a teacher talking to a student. Like, the best, kindest teacher ever.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 31 March 2016 11:12 (eight years ago) link
The Washington-Hamilton dynamic reminds me of Jay-Z and Bleek on Coming of Age
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 31 March 2016 13:09 (eight years ago) link
one last time is fkn beautiful, i love it
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 April 2016 00:13 (eight years ago) link
I love Lin and Chris Jackson. I saw In the Heights with the almost original cast (a few regulars had been subbed, but mostly originals), and Lin/Chris autographed my playbill. Lin came out with a Pac-Man shirt on.
― Neanderthal, Friday, 1 April 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link
wishing I voted for Wait For It
can this be a weekly poll, my fave keeps changing
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 April 2016 20:42 (eight years ago) link
I'd rather be divisivethan indecisivedrop the niceties!
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
Lately I've been listening for all the little themes in the music, where they reoccur and how they change. The Duel theme for instance (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, niiiiine) is also Phillips theme, which makes sense in a cynical sort of way, but it's also repeated in the first cabinet battle. It's a theme, both for violence and competition, but also for education and codification. Civilization just as a more regulated way of doing violence.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
2016 Pulitzer Prize in Drama
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 April 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
:D
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 April 2016 20:09 (eight years ago) link
and if you can name two of the 5 winners before that, you work in theatre.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 April 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link
LMM uploaded some demo recordings to Soundcloud--kind of nuts to hear him singing "Satisfied" and "My Shot" has a bunch of extra Hercules Mulligan lyrics
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 10:30 (eight years ago) link
@tinyrevolution“A free people ought to be constantly awake” -- actual 1796 Farewell Address of George "Woke" Washington
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
@dick_nixon Hamilton was more of a son of a bitch, and thus more interesting, than they make him out to be.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 June 2016 16:20 (eight years ago) link
Hamilton was more of a son of a bitch whore and a Scotsman
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
My wife's the reason anything gets done.She nudges me towards promise by degrees.She is a perfect symphony of one.Our son is her most beautiful reprise.We chase the melodies that seem to find usUntil they're finished songs and start to play.When senseless acts of tragedy remind usThat nothing here is promised, not one dayThis show is proof that history remembers.We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger.We rise and fall, and light from dying embersRemembrances that hope and love last longer.And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love;Cannot be killed or swept aside.I sing Vanessa's symphony; Eliza tells her story.Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.
― Frederik B, Monday, 13 June 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
that was fkn beautiful, my face was made of tears
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 June 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
xxpost fyi that's not really nixon
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 June 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
wait so ilx likes this? it just seems like the worst thing i've ever heard of
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 13 June 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
it's fucking great get on board
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 13 June 2016 22:02 (eight years ago) link
fight me xp
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:25 (eight years ago) link
otm
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h97V3O1jlLw/UQ_qKHtscqI/AAAAAAAAJrA/QNTG7Ebb5LU/s1600/tumblr_lxcv3hSIUo1qlll6ko1_500.png
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 00:53 (eight years ago) link
i'm not really interested in getting into it, i'll leave the thread and you can all enjoy it and i'll continue to watch clips of it on youtube and wonder what the fuck is wrong with everyone
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 02:02 (eight years ago) link
good idea, it was designed to be seen via mobile phone bootleg on youtube, so you're definitely getting a legit understanding of why it is bad and terrible
― glandular lansbury (sic), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 02:04 (eight years ago) link
also when you hate something it's smart and healthy to keep watching it over and over. you can prove how right you are, to yourself!
― glandular lansbury (sic), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 02:06 (eight years ago) link
I really really like Hamilton but don't like the lyrics Frederick B posted, so who do I fight?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 02:25 (eight years ago) link
lin
it's the sonnet he wrote as his Tony acceptance
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 02:31 (eight years ago) link
earnest note to morbs who prob doesnt care: complaining about historical accuracy wrt hamilton is missing the point.
it's like saying that les miz isnt an accurate portrayal of the french revolution to the ppl bawling at "I dreamed a dream"
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 02:36 (eight years ago) link
Oh that's why it didn't sound familiar!
Don't care for it but I mean obviously my standards for award acceptance speech are a lot lower than my standards for actual writing so I withdraw my objection. Lin lives to fight another day.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 02:52 (eight years ago) link
I'd go if this actually happens.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
it me
http://youtu.be/4mrN_Bx9H2Q
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 05:13 (eight years ago) link
It's not the best sonnet ever, it's really not even a sonnet, but he wrote it in a day, where he also had a lot of other things to do. So, like, points to him. I think the punctuation is off in what I quoted, btw. Or, I can't really get all the lines to make sense at once.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 10:46 (eight years ago) link
ilx takes a break from GoT teleplay workshopping to try out some Award Show poetry workshopping
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 12:00 (eight years ago) link
it's really not even a sonnet
― ejemplo (crüt), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 12:05 (eight years ago) link
Here's the link I took the transcription from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/playwrights/the-english-poet-who-inspired-lin-manuel-mirandas-tonys-sonnet/ Even though it's kinda not strictly speaking their 'content', I should probably still have offered up the link. The writer argues, that it's a 'literary masterstroke', because the wrong way Miranda writes the sonnet is like some other poet, who wrote about love differently. So it's 'subversive' or something. Honestly, I think he just wrote 16 lines because it's easier, and he did it in one day.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 12:16 (eight years ago) link
It didn't help the form that LMM just started repeating "and love" in the middle of the poem
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 12:22 (eight years ago) link
But you know maybe he'll polish it up and read the revision when the adaptation wins an Oscar
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 12:23 (eight years ago) link
No no, you don't see, he repeated love because it's so important that it breaks the meter of the sonnet!
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 12:24 (eight years ago) link
more likely he did it because it made the audience whoop
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 12:24 (eight years ago) link
(I suspect that he got lost and repeated it a few times to many, though. We'll see. There's talk of using it on prints to raise money for charity, somehow, then we can see how it's supposed to read)
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 12:25 (eight years ago) link
And love cannot be killed or swept aside.I sing Vanessa's symphony; Eliza tells her story.Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.
scans a bit better than:
And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love;Cannot be killed or swept aside.I sing Vanessa's symphony; Eliza tells her story.Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 12:28 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, but:
This show is proof that history remembers.We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger.We rise and fall, and light from dying embersRemembrances that hope and love last longer.And love cannot be killed or swept aside.I sing Vanessa's symphony; Eliza tells her story.Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.
Seems quite lacking.
I suspect it's meant to be:
And love is love is love is love is love isLove cannot be killed or swept aside.I sing Vanessa's symphony; Eliza tells her story.Now fill the world with music, love, and pride.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 12:31 (eight years ago) link
We'll see. Or better: Poll!
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 12:32 (eight years ago) link