286: No One in a Powdered Wig is Scrappy

The Incomparable Mothership

Moisés Chiullán

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2016

⏱️ 81 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It’s taking the culture by storm, the biggest Broadway musical in years—and it’s about… the first U.S. secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton? It seems unlikely, but nothing about the “Hamilton” story is likely. Lin-Manuel Miranda took the biography of a lesser-known early American figure and turned it into a story full of catchy songs and social commentary, including the rapid-fire hip-hop lyrics and the casting of non-white actors in most of the parts. Four of our “Hamilton”-mad panelists discuss the appeal of the show and why it works so incredibly well. (This we’ve also launched an entire podcast devoted to “Hamilton”, so if you want to hear various panels discuss the show song by song, you may want to subscribe to that, too.) Piano intro and outro music from Hamilton played by Christopher Breen.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 286, February 2016.
0:14.2	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:16.2	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:17.2	We are going to talk about something a little different for us.
0:19.7	This is in the realm of musical theater.
0:22.2	I know.
0:22.8	I know.
0:23.6	Who would have thought?
0:25.0	But at least it's science fictional music.
0:26.7	Nope.
0:27.0	It's not that either.
0:29.0	And it's also a musical theater that none of us have actually seen.
0:31.8	So it's essentially we're talking about an album, basically, which is the two hours and 23 minutes and 46 tracks of the original
0:40.0	Broadway cast recording of a musical called Hamilton by Lynn Manuel Miranda, which is taking
0:45.9	many parts of the culture by Storm. It is a wild success. It is hard to get a ticket. I believe
0:52.9	our own Lex Friedman for his birthday in November,
0:57.3	I think, got a ticket for September of the following year to see it. So yeah, it's hard. It's a,
1:04.9	it's a tough ticket. And the reason is because it is spectacularly good and fun to listen to.
1:12.5	And once you start, you can't stop.
1:14.2	And it's much better than you might expect that a musical that is largely inspired by a biography of America's first secretary of the treasury might be.
1:24.7	Talking about this with me are the following wonderful guests. Chip Sutterth,
1:30.9	hello. It was my understanding that this was actually a historical Doctor Who episode.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Moisés Chiullán, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Moisés Chiullán and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.