Summary
Hamilton: the musical that launched a thousand lip-biting memes. Almost a decade ago, Lin Manuel Miranda’s race-bending rap-sical took broadway by storm and rose to unprecedented levels of success, amassing a dedicated, almost fanatical global fanbase. Yet with ticket prices starting at $400 a pop, the vast majority of these fans had never actually seen the show. Even stranger, in 2016 you could throw a rock and hit about three Hamilton fans, but today it seems like a title no one wants to claim. In this episode, Hannah, Maia, and their friend and long-time collaborator Sara Harvey, go mask-off to discuss Hamilton as it relates to their love of theatre. Is Hamilton a transgressive emulation or veneration of the founding fathers? How much of the show’s backlash is about its real historical flaws, and how much is a symptom of our irony-poisoning? And how much does theatre lose when it’s spliced up and broadcasted on the internet? Tangents include: the “boys and girls can’t share a room law”, Hannah playing the lottery, and a never-before-seen look at the inception of The Crucible: The Musical.
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Sources:
Claire Bond Potter, “Safe in the Nation We’ve Made” Staging Hamilton on Social Media” in Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical Is Restaging America's Past, Rutgers (2018).
H. W. Brands, “Founders Chic” The Atlantic (2003).
EJ Dickson, “Why Gen Z Turned on Lin-Manuel Miranda” Rolling Stone (2020).
Elissa Harbert, “Hamilton and History Musicals” American Music, Vol. 36 (4) Hamilton (2018).
Andy Lavender, “The Internet, Theatre and Time: transmediating the theatron” Contemporary Theatre Review (2017).
Marvin McAllister, “Toward a More Perfect Hamilton” Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 3 (2) (2017).
Erika Milvy, “Hamilton's teenage superfans: 'This is, like, crazy cool'” The Guardian (2016).
Aja Romano, “Hamilton is fanfic, and its historical critics are totally missing the point” Vox (2016).
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| 0:00.0 | I won $15 on a scratch ticket. |
| 0:03.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:03.9 | Which honestly, sometimes when you're like, you're feeling like you're having rotten luck, |
| 0:09.9 | sometimes you feel like life is beating you down and you're like, |
| 0:12.6 | I'm just one nice girl and things are happening and it all terrible. |
| 0:17.7 | Then you buy a scratch ticket and you win $15. And you go, maybe there's this little |
| 0:23.4 | thing called karma. Well, it's the little wins, you know, but it's a very like, it's a very |
| 0:28.4 | literal example of a little win. It is by definition a little win. But the scratch ticket was |
| 0:34.2 | $3. I won $15. So a $12 gain, that's awesome. |
| 0:39.9 | Well, I bought a tub of ice cream when I bought the scratch ticket, and the tub of ice cream |
| 0:43.9 | was almost $10, which is criminal. |
| 0:46.8 | You can imagine how I was feeling right now that she's buying a scratch ticket and a tub of |
| 0:51.1 | ice cream. |
| 0:52.0 | You guys, this is a dark period of my life, but if last night is anything to go off of, things are only |
| 0:59.5 | going to get better. |
| 1:01.1 | Oh, things are coming up millhouse for you, babe. |
| 1:03.9 | I saw an Instagram reel, and it was a girl explaining that something is going to be |
| 1:08.9 | in retrograde around now and that that thing balances |
| 1:13.9 | karma. So if people have wronged you, they'll get their comeuppance and if you've been good, |
| 1:18.4 | you'll be rewarded for it. And I'm clearly not an astrology fanatic, but I'm going to |
| 1:24.2 | manifest that in some way. Astrology is my passion is how that sounds. |
| 1:29.9 | Yeah. |
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