Hamilton

[redbird]

adrian_turtle came over here today, and we had lunch and watched Hamilton. (This is the recording of the Broadway play, made in 2016, which Disney just released on Disney+.)

We all enjoyed it, and I will probably go back and listen to the cast recording to make out more of the lyrics. (Between the loud orchestra, and some buffering glitches, there were lyrics I literally didn't hear, and others I couldn't make out clearly.)

I found myself crying near the end, in part thinking about people I've lost, and letters I didn't keep, or discarded in what now seems like an excess of post-move tidying some years ago. We paused the show until I stopped sobbing, wiped our eyes, and watched the last bit.

At the curtain call, the entire cast next to each other, I was thinking that this show looks more like New York than anything other live theater I've seen, on or off Broadway. Not at all surprising -- Lin-Manuel Miranda lives, or lived, in Washington Heights -- but I hadn't thought of it that way during the show.

Cattitude got the TV a few weeks ago, and set it up in the basement, which lets him watch things on a big screen instead of a tablet, and gives me a bit of time/space to myself while we're staying home because of COVID. This is the first thing I've watched with him; if I was more interested in television we wouldn't have lived without one for so long.

Given my general feeling that almost everywhere, including Massachusetts, is reopening too soon and/or too fast, I doubt I'll be going to the theater for a while after that becomes possible again. (Broadway has announced that nothing is reopening until at least January, and I don't know when anything else, including college productions, will resume.)

Comments

[calimac]

There was close-captioning, at least in the version I watched, and the first thing I did, after about two minutes, was go back to the beginning and turn it on.

[otter]

Staying home is where it's at. I get drawn into some of the shows Sweet W watches, but I don't ordinarily turn tv on to watch by myself.

[minoanmiss]

*beams at you*

I can't wait to watch it.

[cmcmck]

50% here reckon things are going too fast.

[joseph_teller]

I am expecting a new Surge here in MA and the other New England states over the next 2 weeks.
We won't be able to get it under control this time.