Hamilton redux
Oct. 15th, 2022 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeidealSaw Hamilton today! Guy climbing into the seat next to me way in the back like..."pardon me, are you 304, sir."
The other guy next to me had a granddaughter in the row ahead of him, and apparently she and her friend noticed me reading "What If 2" by Randall Munroe, which I'd just gotten at the library, and they had also just gotten, so they texted him to be like "...hey, we recognized that book from the adjacent row." :D Nerds!
The performance style seemed a bit more recitative than sung at times. I especially noticed it with Burr in his intros. Some of the commentary has pointed out "Washington tends to be most stressed out when he's rapping, and most at ease when he's singing (One Last Time)." But Washington in his tent meeting Hamilton didn't feel stressed, just conversational, talky. "I need someone like you to lighten the load." OTOH, at the end of "One Last Time," it was clear that this performer really can belt, he adds some vocal wavy up-and-down-ness (I forget the technical term) that I felt was unnecessary but still impressive.
Also, this production felt a bit...huggier than others I've seen. "Say No To This" was very well-acted, Maria was great, and James Reynold was wearing an ostentatious cowboy hat like...howdy partner, give me the bribe money.
The other guy next to me had a granddaughter in the row ahead of him, and apparently she and her friend noticed me reading "What If 2" by Randall Munroe, which I'd just gotten at the library, and they had also just gotten, so they texted him to be like "...hey, we recognized that book from the adjacent row." :D Nerds!
The performance style seemed a bit more recitative than sung at times. I especially noticed it with Burr in his intros. Some of the commentary has pointed out "Washington tends to be most stressed out when he's rapping, and most at ease when he's singing (One Last Time)." But Washington in his tent meeting Hamilton didn't feel stressed, just conversational, talky. "I need someone like you to lighten the load." OTOH, at the end of "One Last Time," it was clear that this performer really can belt, he adds some vocal wavy up-and-down-ness (I forget the technical term) that I felt was unnecessary but still impressive.
Also, this production felt a bit...huggier than others I've seen. "Say No To This" was very well-acted, Maria was great, and James Reynold was wearing an ostentatious cowboy hat like...howdy partner, give me the bribe money.
