Hamilton: Crafting the sound of the Broadway smash hit

Twenty Thousand Hertz

Dallas Taylor

Music, Design, Arts, Music Commentary

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Broadway’s award-winning, record-breaking, smash hit, Hamilton, is a musical unlike any other. Get the story from people in the room where it happens of how sound helps tell the musical’s story eight times a week. We talk to Nevin Steinberg, Hamilton’s Tony-nominated sound designer, Benny Reiner, Grammy-winning Hamilton percussionist, Anna-Lee Craig, Hamilton on Broadway A2, and Broadway sound design legend Abe Jacob. Twenty Thousand Hertz is produced out of the studios of Defacto Sound and hosted by Dallas Taylor. Follow Dallas on Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn. Watch our video shorts on YouTube, and join the discussion on Reddit and Facebook. Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/hamilton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
0:07.0	I'm Dallas Taylor.
0:09.0	Even if you haven't seen Broadway's 11 Tony winning box office record-breaking smash hit Hamilton,
0:16.0	odds are you've heard of it.
0:18.0	It's been in the news a lot lately thanks to the price and rarity of its tickets.
0:22.6	Tickets for the universally acclaimed musical Hamilton are constantly selling out almost $900 a pop.
0:29.6	Lynn Manuel Miranda is here with us.
0:31.6	I have to say it's weird to see you in a theater without having to pay $10,000.
0:36.6	I went and saw it and then two two hours later, I'm going,
0:39.3	why am I crying over Alexander Hamilton?
0:42.3	In fact, Hamilton, I'm pretty sure, is the only thing that Dick Cheney and I agree on.
0:52.3	Every element, from the performances to the lighting, to the staging, to the costumes, comes together to create a moving, inspiring, and unconventionally patriotic story that stays with you long after the curtain closes.
1:05.9	Each piece of the production is meticulously crafted, and sound design is no exception.
1:11.6	There are some moments in Hamilton which only works so very well because of the subtlety of the sound design and the soundscape.
1:21.6	That's Abe Jacob, a Broadway sound design legend.
1:24.6	I've been a sound designer for the last almost 50 years.
1:29.1	Abe is considered the godfather of sound design on Broadway.
1:32.5	He worked on the original productions of revolutionary shows like Hair,
1:36.1	Jesus Christ Superstar, and Chicago.
1:39.1	Abe trained many of the industry's working sound designers today,
1:42.5	or he trained the people who trained them.
1:48.7	At the time when I started, nobody else was credited
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