*HAMILTON* (2020) | Singer's First Time Watching | Movie Reaction

Singer FINALLY watches HAMILTON (2020) for the FIRST TIME! 🔥
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The original Broadway production of the award-winning musical that tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, first secretary of the treasury, blending hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and Broadway styles, filmed from the Richard Rogers Theater in New York.
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[@celestinenox]

My GUY how did you get to 2023 and not know that Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote Hamilton?? I truly believe he's one of the musical geniuses of our time.

[@niffniffhooray]

He is the new Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sondheim in the Broadway world. Unbelievably talented.

[@loridicola627]

I have to admit that I learned of him through Encanto. I've been wanting to see this, but it's hard to get the time to sit and watch rather than have it in the background. I feel this one deserves undivided attention!

[@Bbouy1HD]

Trust me you live in a bubble, 90% of the world don't know what Hamilton is.

[@MyCrimsonMischief]

​​@@Bbouy1HDwe're not talking about the world, he's American but even if he was from Canada this is all anybody was talking about for good 3-5 years in North America

[@TheTradge]

@@niffniffhooray Sondheim was a genius, Lloyd Webber is a Sondheim wannabe, mega overrated and nowhere near as talented, Lin can write circles around ALW!

[@ambergaffney2705]

Fun fact: you picked up on the fact that the man that played Laurens also played Hamilton’s son and in the intro he says “I died for him” which he did both as Laurens and as his son. But also Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson were played by the same actor. Mulligan and Madison were played by the same actor. In the intro those actors say “I fought with him” in the first act they fought with him in war and in the second they fought against him in politics. The man that plays Eliza’s father also plays the husband of the woman Hamilton cheats with so in both acts he gives Hamilton a woman (hate that phrasing but). The youngest Schuyler sister is also the woman Hamilton cheats with. And in the intro all of them say “I loved him”. When you deep dive into the thought Lin Manuel Miranda put into this it’s crazy.

[@YenellyT]

I never realized that the intro songs were foreshadowing things about the other character the actors played. Lin is literally too good

[@dragonbretheren]

A few further connections: Lafayette/Jefferson have a shared throughline of being connected to France's aid during the revolutionary war (Lafayette a French immigrant/commander, and Jefferson being an America-French diplomat). The background actress that you identified as "the bullet" (actually what they call her in the script) has a secret throughline that you can look out for in subsequent viewings. Hint: pay attention to who she directly interacts with and touches throughout the play.

[@genevieve9366]

@@dragonbretherencan you explain that further? I’m bad at noticing things like that but I’m interested to hear how she is foreshadowed

[@dragonbretheren]

@genevieve9366 Friendly spoiler tag: "The Bullet" is said to represent death. She frequently likes to linger near Hamilton whenever deaths or duels are being sung about (notably in 10 Duel Commandments as he sings "Find a place to die where it's high and dry", she's shoulder-to-shoulder with him) or otherwise tends to slowly gravitate in his direction and is always watching him during full-cast dance sequences. Even before his death, The Bullet is constantly aiming at Hamilton. Also notably, the last time we see Laurens before his death interlude, she is a Redcoat soldier whom he pulls to the ground and stabs. IIRC, it's during the line in Yorktown "Laurens is in South Carolina re-defining beavery//We'll never be free until we end slavery." Their direct contact flags his death. Just before Phillip challenges Eacker to the duel in Blow Us All Away, he stops to flirt with The Bullet (literally flirting with Death) before she tells him where to find Eacker. Aside from these, The Bullet avoids contact with any other major (named) characters. I'm sure I'm missing some other more subtle interactions, but those are the big ones. Bonus aside: she whispers into King George III at the end of his third and final musical number. King George III dies off-stage about 20 years later, so I guess that also counts?

[@moiramontoya1023]

@@dragonbretherena few more little things: Again spoiler tag Laurens doesn’t kill the bullet, they are both American soldiers that kill a red coat together and then clap hands (not a big difference and a small thing to forget, your point still stands). Also when she whispers in King George’s ear (You’ll Be Back) her neck is then broken. It is from that point that interacting with her foreshadows a death. And finally, during Burr and Hamilton’s duel after Burr fires time stops and she catches the bullet. While Hamilton monologues and decides to fire into the air she is slowing carrying the bullet (his death) towards him, and when she reaches him time starts again and he dies. I loved all the input you had and just wanted to add to it.

[@oliviarivera3680]

So Lin (the writer and actor who plays Hamilton) is the uncle of a kid who went to my school. So before hamilton officially came to Broadway he came and did a little Ted talk for us and my friend won tickets from a donation raffle for Broadway cares which donates money to people living and affected by HIV/AIDS. She won Front row balcony tickets for the original cast. Like the best seats cause you can see EVERYTHING. anyway she was gunna take her bf but he had a family thing so she asked me to go and the experience was truly amazing. It’s incredible live.

[@Ari_love-li]

You living the dream

[@beth8191]

actually the luckiest person in the world

[@Blue_turtle_boy]

when you are the person from the Wattpad story 😂

[@dragnfli08]

MKA rise up!

[@user-re5qp5po3r]

you did not throw away your shot

[@lukes.3679]

You seem to think this is a Disney movie, it's a Broadway play that Disney just recorded for the public. They were not involved in the creation at any point. Great reaction, love seeing genuine happiness!

[@electronics-girl]

I don't think Disney was even involved in recording it. Disney just bought the rights to it, after it was already recorded.

[@larseich5796]

​@@electronics-girlyou are correct. They paid in fact the most a Hollywood studio has ever paid for the distribution of an already completed film. There was quite the bidding war going on and ultimately Disney won. The movie had at this point already been shot for years. In fact some of the footage had also been used in a documentary for PBS before.

[@Shirley36]

yea, that kinda annoyed me as well lol. Disney had absolutely no hand in this masterpiece.

[@alexanderwiles2003]

yeah when i heard "why do people like this movie so much, is it because its a disney?! i went nuts lol"

[@TheSpookychick]

Musical, not play.

[@carafelicia]

22:17 The room where it happened isn’t just about Burr not knowing what happened. Miranda wrote that song that way because there’s really no historical records of what happened in that room either. So it’s a mystery for everyone not just Burr.

[@carafelicia]

27:53 same goes for Burn. There’s no record of her reaction to her husband publicly admitting his own infidelity.

[@burrito_bunny2436]

wow that makes a lot of sense but those songs turned so good for having no actual information on them kudos to Lin Manuel-Miranda for making such amazing songs oml

[@anthonyanderson9303]

There are some writings from Jefferson about the meeting but he tended to embellish everything in his favor hence why in the play he acts as if it was all his idea.

[@2Brothers9998]

we dont know if he was lying or not soo@@anthonyanderson9303

[@luckyslob3359]

“I understand that Hamilton is a popular figure, but what makes this musical so popular?” It’s the fact that before this musical, nobody really knew who the hell Alexander Hamilton was. This thing made history by telling history in a way never done before.

[@samanthaw3845]

That’s true, but I think that’s only one of several things that made it popular. If it was just a musical about a founding father and that was it, it might not have gotten as popular. However, Hamilton was also very unique with its hip-hop style, which is not common in musical theater, and of course, Lin Manuel Miranda’s rather excellent wordplay and very clever rhyming schemes I think also contributed to how good the songs are and the shows popularity. And finally, the cast is full of absolute powerhouse voices and excellent actors. I think all these different factors came together and them together is what really made Hamilton absolutely explode in popularity.

[@nbucwa6621]

@@samanthaw3845 I don't think the comment was saying the reason it got popular is because it's about a founding father. Rather it was pointing out that the reason Alexander Hamilton became so well known is because of the musical rather than the reverse.

[@momakesvids5704]

i went to an american public school and even i knew who he was lmao…we learned about him in history class

[@ladymisuto6094]

A couple history facts: - Alexander and Eliza had a total of eight children. Philip was their first. - When Eliza read about the affair (The Reynold’s Pamphlet) she was pregnant. - Their 8th child was born after Philip’s death, and was named Philip after his lost brother. - After Philip’s death, their eldest daughter, Angelica, went insane from grief because she loved her brother so much. As for the actual musical, Lin Manuel Miranda, who plays Alexander in this recorded version, wrote all the music. His skill with verbiage, double meanings, and taking lines from earlier in the show and twisting them to mean something else is absolutely amazing. You can watch the musical (or listen to the soundtrack) dozens of times and still catch new things. Also, a few musical facts: - There is an actor who represents death throughout the entire musical. The first time you see her is in the first song, representing Alexander’s mom. She appears as one of the ladies Philip is flirting with in “Blow Us All Away”. (The “How ‘bout when I get back we all strip down to our socks” line.) Philip is literally flirting with Death right before he’s killed. - There are a total of 47 songs, if you include the Lauren’s Interlude after “Dear Theodosia”, in the musical. Alexander died at 47 years old. - For “Burn”, they tested the burn speeds of various types of paper to ensure that the fire would go out exactly as Eliza left the stage, leaving it in darkness. There’s a lot more, but I could write a book on all the great little things in this musical and I’m sure others have already talked about some more things. My favorite song has to be “Satisfied”, both musically and by choreography.

[@mayaleedy9243]

there's actually 51 songs, representing the 51 essays that Hamilton wrote

[@biggboy2121]

COOL..

[@morhido]

The "flirting with death" thing is so interesting, i never thought about that! I always thought it was a tad strange that she was in that scene, but her foreshadowing philip's death makes so much more sense

[@gerstelb]

“The Bullet” - the chorus member who represents Death - is played by Ariana DeBose. This show was likely what got her noticed for her bigger roles in “West Side Story”, “Wish,” etc. If you notice, she’s also next to the same actor when he’s playing Laurens fighting in Carolina.

[@zoey9656]

Hamilton actually waited to publish the Reynolds’s Pamphlet until after Eliza gave birth so she wasn’t pregnant when she read it

[@gailseatonhumbert]

Hamilton was a massive cultural phenomenon. Obama had them perform it at the White House but it was first done at the White House as a concept beat poem. Disney just bought it later. It was not their production. The writer of both "In the Heights" and "Hamilton" is Lin Manuel Miranda aka Hamilton himself in this Broadway musical. Heights was first. It was a one shot recording of a live performance of the musical.

[@jessicaross9666]

It wasn't a one-shot recording; it was shot over three days: two live performances and one with no audience so that they could move the camera among the actors on stage and for close-ups

[@arandomnamegoeshere]

Adding to this... Lin Manual Miranda has also done a lot of musical work for Disney... being involved in various degrees in some of (IMHO) Disney's best modern works.

[@quemma]

@@arandomnamegoeshere the encanto songs >>>

[@arandomnamegoeshere]

@@quemma absolutely! But also - Moana.

[@cristinacasadomusic]

@@arandomnamegoeshere Also Mary Poppins! And a ton others :) he's amazing

[@leonielovemusic]

When Eliza sings about "erasing herself from the narrative", she's singing about in real life Eliza burned all the letters and no one really knows for sure how she reacted to the news. We only know what she did later in life, as told at the end of the musical.

[@kathyastrom1315]

I love that the last shot is of Eliza reacting weeping to see the audience. People interpret that in different ways. I think that she is seeing that Alexander’s story had survived and is being shared to those in the theater.

[@ANM78]

Indeed, to me she just finally took her last breath once she was sure she did everything she could before dying.

[@jkfecke]

Word of God is that every actor who plays Eliza should interpret that moment for herself. I tend to favor the idea that she's seeing that the story was told and the play was made, but I like that LMM lets that moment speak for itself.

[@amandaturner4991]

​@@jkfeckelol, word of God = the Hamilton god, Lin Manuel Miranda, of course! 😂😂

[@leonh.kalayjian6556]

I've seen a lot of Hamilton reactions and the last shot leads to confusion. So I'm not a supporter. People clap cause they remember how great the entire musical is, but the last few seconds definitely is not a high that could have ended the story.

[@faerisoul]

@@leonh.kalayjian6556 As someone who has seen it live, I don't think it reads the same on video as it does irl. In the live production she is able to make eye contact with people in the audience and affectively break the fourth wall in a way that makes her reaction more readable. But I think in the pro shot it is harder to read because you don't have the direct audience connection.

[@ThatBlackPiano]

1) It’s a musical so they will sing throughout it. 2) This is NOT a Disney movie/play; it’s just filmed and hosted ON Disney+ so people could watch during the pandemic. 3) Favorite song: “The Room Where It Happens”. 4) The actor that played Hamilton, Lin Manuel Miranda, wrote the play and music. He also wrote the music to the movie: “In the Heights” Disney movies: “Encanto” and “Moana”

[@Bellalove749]

I freaking love Lin!!!!

[@tahressaclark33]

“I can imagine that this part was getting some of y’all.” meanwhile im sitting here sobbing even though ive watched it countless times

[@mrflickswatches]

Whatever happened I don’t have to know! Even if nothing did .. Hope your doing amazing 🙏🏼

[@taylorbrown3987]

SOBBING. I always skip "It's Quiet Uptown" when listening to the cast recording because I will be inconsolable by the end of it.

[@nettiemac]

Same. That part gets me ALWAYS. My dad was there when my only other sibling died and to this day he still hasn’t talked about it in full. I don’t push him to either. So that scene, I put myself in his shoes and yeah, I can’t get through it without crying.

[@katiegardner7226]

Angelica's Satisfied is my favorite song to listen to and watch mostly because of the choreography- if you look at that performance versus the one before- it's the exact same choreography but in reverse. It was an incredible stage decision and job by the company. Not to mention the actress' voice is out of this world.

[@SianiLane]

Hamilton is full of incredible voices, but I think Renee Elise Goldberry blows them all away. Apparently she auditioned well, so Lin-Manuel Miranda gave her the music for Satisfied and told her to learn it and come back the next day for a second audition. She took it home, came back the next day, and performed the whole song without missing a single word, and he was like, "Okay, so we got Angelica, check..."

[@lizziefrances]

The final song (Who tells your story) is my undoing every time. And Theodosia.

[@trinadeerhodes]

I didn't realize this till like the third time I watched it 😢 but I love it

[@loreenahansen9776]

It’s important to note that Hamilton was a phenomenon for the better part of a decade on Broadway before this pro-shot was released. They weren’t supposed to release a filmed version until much deeper in the future but they decided to do it early during the pandemic, and Disney was ultimately who they made the streaming deal with.

[@anthonyanderson9303]

More like 5 years. Hamilton started on Broadway in 2015. This was released in 2020. LMM originally did that white house poetry night in 2009, but it certainly wasn't a "phenomenon" at that point.

[@v1ct0ria942]

"We got Belle, fricking Cinderella-" AND PEGGY

[@Just_a_fairy_with_a_kni4e]

YES!

[@torimod]

Bruh when you said she's the bullet ! I jumped out of my chair in excitement, no one ever gets that on the first viewing I'm so blown away !

[@torimod]

Also , "he doesn't get enough credit for the credit he gave us" is a reference to the fact that he essentially created our stock market - hence gave us *credit*

[@nubiannerd9949]

The bullet is Oscar winner Ariana DeBose. I had the pleasure of seeing her in Hamilton and the Donna Summer bio-play. She did the thing!

[@ToniMcGinty]

I wasn't at that recording, but I did win a seat at the Broadway premiere. 7000 people applied and were outside the theatre. There were 11 winners in total. I was one. Hundreds of celebrities, the other winners, my friend and me. I don't think we even took it in. We were just so astonished we were at one of the biggest premieres in Broadway history. I've seen it a few times since and, yes, I get it now.

[@BeyondSafewords]

My mom saw this show on Broadway without me... She said it was like watching an opera, because she wasn't used to listening to rap. My theater geek soul died a little that day.

[@hillarymead]

“I wonder how many times they had to practice this before they had the final time to record..” 😂 The show wasn’t created for the movie, the movie was created because of the show’s success. By the time they filmed it, they’ve already been performing live shows for over a year.

[@mrflickswatches]

lol that makes sense actually lol

[@hillarymead]

@@mrflickswatches I know you mentioned in the reaction that you would want to do a play. As an actress/singer myself, I definitely suggest you getting involved with any kind of community theater near you just so you can really learn more about the industry and also join a community who also love to perform. 💕

[@kimilynP]

Did you watch this without subtitles??? You miss so much of the genius of the lyrics if you don't know them. These songs are incredible and incredibly addictive. Also I hope you do get a chance to go to see something live theater in person. It's magic!

[@anastasia.00]

Not only without subtitles but also talking over the songs and missing the story. He realized there was George Washington only when he heard the line "I see George Washington smile" 😂

[@sophie.ahs.]

@@anastasia.00he kept skipping so many important parts! It was irritating me sm

[@nbucwa6621]

@@sophie.ahs. It's because of copyright so I understand. Disney is a ferocious hungry beast and it's favourite meal is reactors. You cannot put Dinsey affiliated content on yt and expect to live. Chopping and speaking over and removing sound etc is the only way and it has to be under thirty seconds a shot even then

[@80sGamerLady]

The guy who plays Hamilton wrote this. Along with some Disney movie songs you may have already seen like recently Encanto.

[@CharlySandagata]

he also wrote in the heights

[@laurafiller1849]

Lin read a biography while on vacation and decided Hamilton's life was best reflected a lot like many rap & r&b singers

[@wolfywox]

He also wrote the music for Moana!

[@aznmochibunny]

​@@laurafiller1849Originally I believe it was supposed to be a mixtape but there was so much material, it got turned into a musical instead. A lot of songs that got cut did indeed get released for a mixtape version of it including a variety of other songs and new versions. George Washington's final letter in the mixtape is actually read by Barack Obama, whose family were huge fans of Hamilton and endorsed the musical quite a lot.

[@Nao-po3dx]

Didn’t he also do some parts of Moana?

[@vandergrad]

Absolutely YES, this is the dopest musical every written, by far! Facts upon facts upon facts, and layers upon layers upon layers. You will keep noticing more details with each viewing. And the entire thing was written by the guy playing Hamilton. This is the original Broadway cast, and this was filmed because they wanted more people to be able to see it. (I paid for one nose-bleed seat for my son to see it in Chicago... trust me, those tickets were $$$$$) Anyway, it was filmed in two parts... they captured a live performance in front of an audience, but they also did a performance where the cameras could get up in their faces for the closeups. They originally thought of releasing it via the traditional movie theater route but ended up making a deal with Disney. --- Welcome to the Hamilton fan club!

[@electronics-girl]

At least when I saw Hamilton (December 2018), Chicago was the city with the cheapest seats by far. The prices for the New York production were absolutely obscene, as were the prices for the national tour that came to LA for a little while. So I actually took a trip from LA to Chicago to see it. (And to see the other sights in Chicago, but Hamilton was the main reason.)

[@vandergrad]

@@electronics-girl You are not wrong. And I got an even better deal because my son was willing to take a gamble on a seat that was 'partially blocked view' ... turns out a pillar blocked one extreme edge of the stage is all, so we got lucky. But yeah, the cost of going to a successful Broadway show is just nuts. I remember the early days of cable TV, when A&E would play live recordings of stage productions. I saw some amazing shows that I would otherwise have missed. I sure wish there was more of that out there! Not just for myself, but for all the young people out there who have never seen a live production on that level.

[@embuikema]

Loved your reaction. When you watch it again I highly recommend you turn on subtitles to fully hear/understand all the words!

[@EdibleStars369]

Hamilton and In The Heights were both written by Lin Manuel Miranda who in this plays Alexandra Hamilton and in In The Heights plays the shaved ice seller. In the Heights is actually a much older stage play than Hamilton, but was made into a film after the success of Hamiltons live film. Hamilton was a very popular stage play for years, Disney released this film version during covid lockdown (apart from this film Hamilton is a seperate thing from Disney). Lin has worked with Disney though on songs for Moana and Encanto films though

[@radicaledward84]

Lin Manuel was Usnavi in the theatrical take of In The Heights, but for the movie (which was shot years later) they wanted someone younger, but he still wanted to be part of it so he played the piragua guy as you say.

[@mayabairey]

Hamilton is still playing to sold out crowds to this day. In NYC and also touring the world.

[@caryl.885]

@@radicaledward84 He actually didn't want to be a part of the movie (at least on screen) anymore! In interviews he mentioned that he was very much passing the baton to the new cast since they already did their thing with the Broadway version. He said that he wanted to just work behind the scenes but when they brought up that Piragua Guy will be cut from the movie and a way to save it would be to do the cameo instead. The character is essentially a love letter to his grandfather who passed away in 2008.

[@Justapersonontheinternet-li7nu]

​@@caryl.885Aw that's so sad :( glad he managed to save the character :D Do you remember what interviews you found this from? I'm going on a Hamilton binge right now so yeah

[@CafeDeDuy]

Wait… you did realize that Hamilton ran for years starting in 2015 BEFORE even Disney acquired it right? Disney had ZERO input in how Hamilton is created. All they did was distributed it in Disney+

[@laurafiller1849]

They asked him to remove a few of the f*cks to keep it family friendly.

[@CafeDeDuy]

@@laurafiller1849 correct and that’s for distribution reasons. However the actual creative input into Hamilton itself doesn’t fall under their credits

[@katie-.-.-]

Fun fact: Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote ‘Dear Theodosia’, a song about two men entering the joys of fatherhood, the day he got his dog.

[@Jgumyjymghjvmhvj]

Awhhhhhh

[@wolfywox]

I saw a few people mention that Lin wrote Hamilton and In The Heights, but he also wrote the songs for Moana and Encanto! The man is a music and lyrical genius. Other fun facts: Jonathan Groff, who plays the king, is also the voice of Kristoff from the Frozen movies. Alexander and Eliza also had other children. I do remember hearing that at one point, some of their descendants came to one of the shows!

[@ieshagames]

Yes Alexander and Eliza Hamilton had eight children together and they named their last son Philip after losing their first son named Philip.

[@LadyGreensleeves33]

That last shot of Eliza goes unexplained, and its apparently viewed slightly differently by differently by different actresses. Some its Eliza reaching the afterlife and seeing her family again, etc. But more commonly predicted to be a 4th wall break, where Eliza is seeing what the actress is seeing - a crowd cheering for Alexander and her story being told, and instead of being Alexander who leads her there its Lin being himself.

[@raidersfanallday]

This wasn’t made by Disney they just acquired the distribution rights

[@Heather61776]

You found the untitled character referred to as The Bullet. Go back and watch again. She's in many scenes where ppl die or almost die

[@madelineharris907]

When Eliza screams when her son dies I feel it. It’s heart wrenching.

[@mechellepryor4421]

I knew of this musical and worked hard for years to afford airline hotel food and tickets for my family to see this live in New York City. I cried for the first 10 minutes of the play. Tears of absolute joy. Worth every sacrifice and penny spent. Bucket List trip for me. Don’t make fun of me for this post.

[@mrflickswatches]

That’s nothing to make fun of .. I’m proud of you ! And you should be too! 🙏🏼

[@daninmills]

Saying Eliza looks like Cinderella is so funny to me since Phillipa Soo, who played Eliza, also played Cinderella in Into the Woods on Broadway just last year.

[@youmadbro7733]

They say You die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time when somebody says your name for the last time. This musical helped insure that Alexander Hamilton will never die.

[@lovingfullsun_mj4156]

i havent read a comment mentioning this but you said you loved the emotion in One Last Time with the guy who played George Washington. well that was the actor's last broadway performance, he retired after this so that was his way of saying One Last Time to the stage :)

[@mrflickswatches]

That’s actually really beautiful 🙏🏼 God bless him

[@TheDivayenta]

The fabulous Leslie Odom ( Aaron Burr) is an incredible singer. This was the hottest play on Broadway for YEARS. This is all based on historical fact- reading the synopsis of the story will help a lot! It all takes place during the American Revolution. Alexander Hamilton was from the Virgin Islands , I believe. King George was literally insane which is why he’s depicted as such.

[@SEOshogun]

It's popular because it's amazing. It's the story, the songs, the production, the talent. Before it was licensed by Disney it was a sold out broadway production as of 2015. Disney licensed it because It's just freaking amazing.

[@jodyheigaard9949]

This is a multi watch must. I've watched it at least 30 or more times & I find new things every single time. The most fun I had watching it was when I watched it with my mom (who is in her 80s & NOT into rap) and constantly pausing to explain a scene or concept. By the end she was so into the story & music she wanted to watch it again. Her word for it was GENIUS. 😊 Knox Hill does an amazing livestream breakdown of the music/lyrics on KZbin. It's divided into 3 videos & ends up being around 8 hrs total, but it's absolutely worth the time.

[@ajonteampanalo]

Hahaha, my mom’s 75 and I printed out all the lyrics and put them in a binder for her to study before we saw Hamilton in San Francisco (not the OG cast but still phenomenal). Anyway, I think she enjoyed it more knowing some of the lyrics in advance.

[@wjquick32]

Knox Hill's breakdown is so good, I absolutely adore his historical knowledge! My 77 year old dad listens to the soundtrack at least weekly ever since I got him and my 69 year old mom on board the same month this came out. At one point we watched it once or twice a week for like half a year lol.

[@bobstewart1668]

Golly! The actor playing HAMILTON wrote the entire score and lyrics. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Theater Writing. This piece of theater is based on a Pulitzer Prize winning biography called HAMILTON too.

[@bobstewart1668]

BTW- This is NOT A DISNEY MOVIE!!!! It's a Broadway Musical that was filmed with 3 cameras. HAMILTON is still running on Broadway. This musical HAS NOTHING to do with Disney, other than the fact they bought the rights to show it on their DISNEY Streaming platform.

[@BeyondSafewords]

The woman who represented the bullet in the final scene is Ariana Debose who won an oscar for her performance as Anita in the West Side Story reboot. She was also amazing in the musical pastiche show Schmigadoon/Schmicago.

[@ieshagames]

She’s also portraying the lead character in that new Disney ‘Wish’ movie.

[@BeyondSafewords]

@@ieshagames that too I guess. I'm less enthused about Wish as I am about West Side Story and Schmigadoon/Schmicago. IMO the latter two are must watches if you're a musical fan. You can tell how much care and love for the source materials went into them! Wish feels... soulless in comparison.

[@pinillagang]

I recently won the lottery to watch the show and all lottery tickets are in the front row, so watching the show from that vantage point was so incredible. I shed so many tears. Also, I'm sure someone pointed it out, but there's a theory that at the end of the show, it's the actual actor who plays Hamilton guiding Eliza to the front to see the audience. She gasps in awe, relief, joy, that his story really was told to everyone there. She did her part.

[@ZariDV]

The actor who played Hamilton, Lin Manuel Miranda, was the person who wrote the entire show (lyrically and narrative-wise). He's an amazing wordsmith. You could probably use the lyrics of this play to teach an English class about so many different topics because he really utilizes a lot of different tools in this play. It's truly genius the more you listen to it. Years later I was still discovering forshadowing, parallels, subtext, music references, etc. I'm so mad that I graduated from college before I discovered Hamilton. I would have written so many essays on it for my media courses. I totally understand how difficult it would be to do commentary on this play. Especially if you're trying to do it without pausing. There's just so much going on and while the music is fun to listen to, the lyrics are pretty heavy since every single bar feeds into the storyline. When I first heard Hamilton, I listened to just the soundtrack of it on KZbin and read the lyrics in the video. It was so much to take in since I'm not American and I don't know much American history. Just listening to it made me so invested in the story. I was sad that I didn't have the money to travel to America and get tickets to see the show back then. I was so excited when Lin finally released the footage of one of the shows on Disney with the cast from the soundtrack. It was amazing seeing the show I was imagining from the soundtrack come to life. My fave song is 'Wait For It' since it was so beautiful and it was the first song to stand out to me on my first listen because I actually related to Burr in that song. It was odd feeling like I understood the character meant to be the "villain". 'The Room Where It Happens' is my second fave song since it has that classic Disney villain song vibe. They always get better songs than the heroes. You could hear Lin's love for Disney in that song. My third fave is 'Satisfied'. No explanation needed. It's just epic and Angelica rapped and sang her ass off. Special mention to 'The Cabinet Battle #1 & #2', 'Yorktown', any song with King George III, and 'Washington On Your Side'...mostly because I love hearing Jefferson drag Hamilton. He's such a petty bitch and it's so entertaining and fun to have that kind of character in a play. He's literally just there to be messy. He's probably my fave character even though the real Jefferson was a piece of shit and deserved nothing good in life.

[@MyaConile]

Favorite song is Angelica's toast.... No just for the vocals (she's INCREDIBLE) but when you rewatch it, the attention to detail and the matching of scenes between Eliza's "Helpless" and Angelica's song are awesome. ❤ I am not a fan of history, but this play gave me so much appreciation for this story and LMM did such an amazing job on this. Probably my favorite musical of all time.

[@SolarG_Official]

Just a heads up, at around 12:30, the scene was a flashback to when she first met Hamilton which is why the song started with the crowd chanting "rewind"

[@nicolecountryman5275]

I remember seeing Hamilton live and thought there is no way this will live up to the hype, I also never thought a musical about the “ founding fathers” would have me in tears but there I was crying during Quiet Uptown. The music is so layered, so many genres and phenomenal artists. Lin Manuel Miranda is a musical genius, just when you thought you heard the best song you hear one more that is amazing. Loved your review!!

[@amandaturner4991]

I've already left a long comment, but wanted to add that, when Phillip dies, Eliza and Angelica are already in black because they've been mourning the death of the youngest sister, Peggy. This, in addition to Alexander's affair, is probably what he's referring to when he tells Phillip to aim his gun in the air because his "mother can't stand another heartbreak". And you're completely right - a parent should never have to bury their child. This is actually what Lin is referring to with the lyric "going through the unimaginable" -- to bury your child and the pain you feel.. is going through the unimaginable.

[@c.a.norwood34]

Hon, this is exactly what storytelling was for most of human history. Telling stories in verse takes us back literally thousands of years. ;)

[@user-ux7ud7vw4f]

Satisfied is my favorite. I go back and forth all the time, there’s SOO MANY AMAZING SONGS, but it always comes back to that damn song. This is the best musical ever made for sure, I’ve listened to it so many times!!!

[@sageinlove]

Phillipa Soo's emotion in stay alive reprise instantly makes me burst into tears shes just amazing

[@hunnybunny12730]

i saw someone comment about Eliza metaphorically and literally in history “erasing herself from the narrative” as she burnt the letters between them so no one knows how she reacted. speaking of that vvv The Room Where it Happened is literally a void filler for an important historical event that was never recorded. literally no one knows what happened in that room to cause the deal they made. it seems so simple but it’s actually such a good way of fillin in that space

[@ellecharles19]

I won the lottery and saw this show, front row. Literally was brought to tears in the first 10 minutes LOL

[@bernardblack7870]

Now I'm imagining this cultured, articulate singer from NYC among his singer peers IN LATE 2023 going: "Hey, I just watched this Hamilton thing on Disney+ ... it's dope. Heard of it?"

[@chuprine]

Truly unbelievable!!

[@-Olea-]

From NYC too! He kinda killed me with this!

[@cyndisanimaladventures6370]

Alexander and Eliza had 8 children, the first, Philip, died in 1801 and in 1802 Eliza had their eighth child, a boy they named Philip II in honor of his eldest brother.

[@lovelyme6610]

Fun fact; The bullet was a secret/ unwritten character so if you rewatch every person that dies in the play comes into contact with her first before they die.

[@Sol-or6wb]

i had won 2 free tickets for hamilton and we sat in the 3rd row, it wasent the original cast but it was truly an experience like no other, they would flash lights at you to simulate gunshots or booms, they made you feel like you where on stage with them

[@sagejennings4342]

16:49 I paused this to reread their letter that is essentially Hamilton saying "I love you and I will forgive you for that if you let me keep loving you"

[@trinasp]

This is definitely something you want to watch and rewatch. I wish that I had a chance to see the original cast, but those tickets were just too expensive. I got to see it right before the pandemic in the production that came to Dallas. That cast was so fantastic as well. Luckily, for me, they sold their rights to Disney. I must have watched it 100 times in 2020. So much so that my daughter who never watched it, knew all the music from when she could hear from her room. After the world open back up, my daughter, and I went to another live show. Even though the cast wasn’t as good as the first one that I saw, the show is still spectacular. We went to one more live show later that year, and I still loved it so much. My favorite song will always be Satisfied! Someone that reacted to that song individually says, they may as well call it “how to win a Tony“. Many of the actors did win Tonys for their role, and Hamilton won the best musical Tony that year.

[@bethanyromano2740]

I was having a rough day at work, until I saw your reaction to my favorite play was released. Thank you for brightening my day. My top 4 favorite songs would be Satisfied, Yorktown, Wait for It, and My Shot.

[@mrflickswatches]

Glad your day got better ! 🙏🏼

[@fourthgirl]

Lin Manuel Miranda is just brilliant. King George was the known as the Mad King. He would go on rants and spit everywhere. The actor playing has a spitting habit when performing. A match made in theater heaven. The movie features the original Broadway cast. Hamilton broke records. Disney commissioned the movie in 2017 but held on to it until Disney+ launched.

[@libby8090]

This is so popular cause it's just that damn good.

[@jinnimoo]

The Hamilton musical has been on Broadway for years and across many countries with a rotating cast, long before this 'movie'. A live taping of a musical made public is extremely rare and they managed to get the original cast back for it.

[@-Olea-]

I don't think they could actually get all the actors years after they quit the show. It had to be recorded in 2015.

[@S0D0M0J0]

lol I love how you look at the camera and ask us what makes this so popular and then go right back to talking about how amazing it is, like… it’s popular because it’s so amazing! Lin-Manuel Miranda is a genius! He wrote every word of Hamilton AND In The Heights and he played the leading character in both. Legendary. He also wrote the music for Moana and Encanto, definitely worth a reaction if you’re into his style.

[@kristabelle7625]

Let’s not forget that they did 8 live shows a week on Broadway, that in itself is incredible! Lin is indeed a genius, & is one of the most generous & genuine people you’ll come across. Can’t wait to see what comes out of that amazing mind next!

[@Lina_unchained]

I saw Hamilton live on Broadway with the Original cast and it was one of the most insane experiences of my entire life.

[@hanjis5894]

I had the privilege of seeing Hamilton live in NYC for the first time last year. I've been a fan since 2016. When the opening number began I literally burst into tears, I was so overwhelmed by the energy of seeing it in person after all the years I'd spent listening to and adoring the soundtrack.

[@user-yo2jy7jq2g]

lin manuel wrote the entire play. it took him 7 years. he casted the whole cast pretty much. this was recorded multiple times while it was on broadway. they chose this one for disney to post. lin wrote all of the music, all of the lyrics, all of the melodies and harmonies. he wants to put pop and rap to the story of hamilton for kids and just people in general to learn about history. it’s genuinely amazing. i would recommend doing some research about it cause it’s mind blowing everything that went into it

[@allieren]

I finally saw Hamilton on Broadway this past summer and you’re correct, the audience is having a lot of fun. I’d seen this recording for Disney several times (which was actually edited from recordings of multiple performances-if you look super closely you can see small costume inconsistencies) but wanted to see it live in New York. Not the original cast, but still amazing. Well, there was at least one-Thayne Jasperson who played Samuel Seabury in the original cast was King George in the show I saw. He was hilarious. Edit: And you are also correct; there was not a dry eye around me during “It’s Quiet Uptown.” I think it’s the only time I freely cried during a show, because everyone else around me was crying too.

[@amandaturner4991]

I didn't know that Thayne Jasperson played King George in a version!.. it must have been so amazing with his facial expressions and physicality.

[@jennachildress7627]

I have loved hamilton for years and I just now put together Burr sings “you’re gonna get shot” and you caught it right away. What a phenomenal show that I can still find things like that years later.

[@flord10]

A couple people have already mentioned it, but this is not a Disney production - they just purchased the distribution rights for the proshot (the term used to refer to professionally filmed Broadway shows).

[@kassandrat99]

My high school took the whole senior year to watch the performance in SF. It was amazing.

[@jennym2276]

Mr. Flicks I'm new to this channel but this isn't a disney movie. Disney distributed it. It is a Tony Award winning play that was written by Lin Manuel Miranda. The same guy who wrote In The Heights. They filmed this from two broadway performances, where they edited together the best takes and filmed some close ups without an audience. This is a play based on one of the founding fathers Alexander Hamilton, who was George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury, establishing the Bank of the United States and basically our modern banking system. He is on the 10 dollar bill and was the founder of what is now called the New York Post. Alexander and Eliza had 8 children.

[@user-sl7tv6bx8d]

Lin-Manuel Miranda been doing the genius thing from “Freestyle Love Supreme” to “In the Heights” to “Hamilton” to writing for Disney music to acting and finally also directing his first motion picture. Guy is just aaaahhhhhh🤗❤

[@daisy2103]

the guy who plays alexander hamilton (lin minuel miranda) is the creator of hamilton, so he wrote it, had the idea, etc. hes an incredible talent!

[@WaywardVet]

Yorktown is my favorite "Take the bullets out your guns! Take the bullets out your guns! We move undercover and we move as one!"

[@Emerald_AM]

This was so fun! Angelica's first song was my favorite, she is so damn good. They all are really. This was a play that was performing a couple years first before being picked up by Disney. They recorded 3 live performances and pieces together this one. The actor Lin Manual Miranda wrote this, he played Alexander Hamilton and wrote the songs for Encanto. I think he wrote songs for In The Heights as well but I can't remember.

[@ToniMcGinty]

He wrote all of In the Heights and played Usnavi originally on Broadway. He also composed Moana and the non-John Williams stuff in the latest Star Wars trilogy.

[@gailseatonhumbert]

Yes he did. Heights was his first Broadway show.

[@elisabethbarker9180]

He also wrote a lot of the songs in Moana and speaking of Moana the man who plays George Washington also plays Moana’s dad. He wrote songs for Marry Poppins returns and plays Jack the lamp lighter in it

[@amandaturner4991]

Y'all, let's not forget 21 Chump Street or directing Tick Tick Boom..

[@ToniMcGinty]

@@amandaturner4991 Or Freestyle Love Supreme.

[@davidstenow5055]

33:12 impressive that you caught that on your first watch! The woman who plays The Bullet is Ariana DeBose, now a movie star in her own right! (West Side Story, Wish)

[@barbararojo358]

when he was asking who wrote that I was like, YOU ARE LOOKING AT HIM. Lin is in another level.

[@StoryMing]

Favorite song- just one? That’s tough, there are SO many bangers in this play. But if I *_have_* to choose… I think I’d have to say “Satisfied”, because of how it plays off of the previous song, “Helpless”. By the way, ‘In The Heights’ was written and performed on stage BEFORE ‘Hamilton’; but because Hamilton was so wildly popular it came out on film first. (And also, re: the intermission- it is 60 seconds because it is a recording which people at home can pause for as long as needed). (ALSO also- he didn’t make a big deal of saying goodbye to Eliza because he didn’t want her to know. Or to start wondering what was up)

[@elisabethbarker9180]

You did ask who wrote the music and this is one of my favorite bits about it. Lin Manuel Miranda wrote this musical and starred in it. Hamilton is a piece of art and another thing I didn’t catch at first because I love Jefferson and Lafayette so much is that they are both played by Daveed Digs

[@oriyanbarnes]

The actor of Hamilton wrote the entire thing (he also wrote In The Heights), his name is Lin Manuel Miranda

[@percyfunny]

My favorite song is Non Stop, the last song in Act 1. I don't know why but I absolutuly love multiple songs going together like butter. Its also a fun song that refrences so many of the earlier ones, reminding the audience of whats to come. One part that is very intruging is when Hamilton said "I'm not throwing away my shot!" near the end, you could hear the backup singers sing "Just you wait" which forshadows Hamiton throwing away his shot at the final duel, ultimatly killing him.

[@tiamarrow6366]

The actress who played Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds is Jasmine Cephas-Jones…..she’s the daughter of the late Ron Cephas-Jones (actor and singer) she’s also a singer to, and stars in Blindspotting a show created by Daveed Diggs (Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson) after they both eventually left Hamilton. Also the song Non-stop is a combination of all the major songs in Act 1 and when Alexander to Phillip that his mother couldn’t take another heartbreak it’s because in Stay Alive Reprise when we see Eliza wearing the black cloak….Peggy had died earlier in the year so she had came back from the funeral only for her own son to die, and back then it was normal for more prominent families to mourn loses for long periods of time. So Peggy and Phillip died the same year, but a few months apart and in reality Alexander was by Peggy’s side when she passed and he sent Eliza a letter to let her know.

[@jenniferri7735]

hamilton was a ginormous cultural phenomenon. i became a fan very early; mid-2015, just when it was getting to broadway. saw it onstage in april 2016 with the exact cast from this filmed version with only a couple of exceptions.

[@carlosjailar5449]

Fun fact:So why she cried is bc the guy that played hamilton was the one who wrote this play and he was not acting he was playing as himself and telling eliza that he told her story and as u know at the end she said who will tell my story and he did tell her story

[@TheGirlNotNextDoor]

Lin Miranda, the one that played Hamilton is the exact same one who wrote EVERY LYRIC or at least MOST OF THEM. Exactly why I love him, he is talented and absolutely amazing.

[@valerieloc1686]

I saw Hamilton live in Hamburg, Germany. German was the first language it has been translated into but unfortunately it wasn’t as popular here, so it only lasted a year. (The translation was really good though and there’s still some audio recordings on KZbin and there’s a German cast EP on Spotify) They had their final show in October. I haven’t seen it in English though, at least not live.

[@jkfecke]

I've seen the touring performance, and it's amazing -- and I'm very glad that they just did a shoot of the performance rather than trying to turn it into a movie. Hamilton is really, aggressively a stage production, it simply doesn't work outside of that medium, and credit everyone for recognizing it. As for favorite song, while Washington's entry on "Right Hand Man" is incredible, I still have to give it to "Wait For It." But there are at least six or seven songs that would be the highlight of most other shows.

[@feminist5641]

What makes Hamilton the most amazing play is that it's almost entirely sung and/or rapped by a diverse cast playing the roles of our founding fathers. The music and lyrics are truly amazing and combining that with a terrific story, talented cast, choreography, set design resulted in a flash of brilliance that is Hamilton. Lin Manuel Miranda is a national treasure!

[@audreyshafer386]

I’m not sure if you know this yet but the end when she gasp and cry’s is her looking down and she how she really told his story and seeing her impact on what she did!

[@SanojBerg]

It’s originally a Broadway musical that got very popular. Disney produced this movie quite a while later, and I think it was filmed during two actual shows. The writer of the whole thing (and In The Heights, which came before) is Lin Manuel Miranda, the guy who plays Hamilton.

[@kristabelle7625]

Disney didn’t produce this, they just acquired the streaming rights years later.

[@liduck52]

Hamilton opened on Bway on a Thursday nite. I was at the Saturday matinee.

[@somewhereonlyweknow2814]

Eliza is hands down my favorite "character" in this story and also my favorite voice. Love her!

[@indianapeacock8919]

29:46 She actually got it broken three times, one of the times isn't in the show but her youngest sister, Peggy was killed around the same time frame that her son was killed which is why she's already wearing all black when she goes to see her son in the hospital.

[@jeanbot]

I saw this 4th row orchestra. It was pretty astounding. Seeing it live is quite powerful. Hamilton is such a hopeful piece of art. Colorblind casting and the use of really really good hip hop in musical form - it’s just a stroke of genius.

[@klosux]

i watched hamilton last last month! they had their international tour and i got the chance to watch them in manila, philippines up close. the staging irl was insane and the vocals are phenomenal.

[@Itschristianlosers]

We had a trip to DC to watch this play, and that was the first play I ever saw, and it awakened my love for plays it was so magical for me.

[@sarannwrap]

in my senior year of high school (late 2019- early 2020), the arts department and the history department teamed up to let all the kids in those classes do the eduham program and it allowed us to do a project inspired by this era and then go see hamilton live! it was amazing and the entire time i had goosebumps

[@liveicelive]

The girl who plays the bullet and was a the one who whispered to the king about John Adams is Ariana DuBois. Look her up, she’s amazing.

[@-Olea-]

Ariana DeBose

[@stardreamer26]

My daughter's best friend took her for her 15th birthday in Dallas,Tx, but it wasn't with the original cast.

[@adamlevy810]

Finally ready to watch you be mind blown

[@Knightowl1980]

As someone who came to musicals later in life, it’s such a thrilling experience. I Recommend seeing as many as you can. Love your vibe and glasses btw

[@phoenix7hope894]

That recording was actually 3 performances, but so seamlessly edited it seems like one. Loved your reaction! Reminded me of the thrill of watching it the first time. Thank you 😊