Off the top of my head is just two ideas, first, is this also possible? Second, the song is too brainwashed to stop and wants to dance (cover your face)
The first time I heard about Hamilton was when I went on a ski trip with outdoor activity last semester. I played Angela's playlist along the way, and I heard the opening song in the middle. The senior who likes musicals said that this is Hamilton. After that, I tried listening to it on spotify, but except for the first song, which felt good rhythm, nothing else.
Sometimes I think musical is really amazing. There are a lot of songs, I just don't feel it when I listen to them, I just feel good after watching them. After watching them once, I can listen to them again. Even if there are no visuals, I still feel good about them...
I saw the sharing in the circle of friends on the day of the official photo, so I went to station B to watch it. I read it a bit every day during my meal and leisure time, and it took me a long time to read it all. After that... I can't help myself. No matter what you do every day, you bring your own hamilton BGM, so you can't concentrate. So I decided to write something and jot down what I found interesting at the moment.
First of all, it was subverted by the entire format, using rap to sing the story of the founding father, casting roles regardless of skin color, and without any sense of disobedience. The uppercase is convinced, and praised. In the overall narrative process, the presentation of the same scene from different perspectives was used several times, and the effect was amazing. The first time was at the wedding, the song satisfied, angelica recreated the story of hamilton and eliza's acquaintance and marriage from her perspective after toasting. The flashbacks of key clips are interspersed with angelica's inner monologue, and with Renee's singing skills, it feels like watching a movie. Later, the room where it happens uses a similar technique. After the three-person small room, it is reproduced from the perspective of burr. With the dialogue between thomas and madison, the effect is also excellent. In addition, the use of artificial "slow motion" is also amazing. For example, during the War of Independence, the live-action version of the "bullet" passed by Hamilton's ears in slow motion to show the danger of war, and in the final duel, the big slow motion after the bullet was fired was accompanied by Hamilton's inner monologue, a moment before the end of his life. The memory flashed back, it was beautiful.
The lyrics of LMM are really well written. Although there are also places for vernacular, but many points make people applaud. For example, the phrase "oceans arise, empires fall" that appears repeatedly in the three lyrics of George III, and enjoying it with Xiao Qiao's voice is simply... so beautiful. Such as the use of various puns. I first listened to I won't throw away my shot and thought ok, it's a unique choice to use this expression to say that I won't waste my shot. But when the duel in the penultimate act, when hamilton said if I throw away my shot, it suddenly dawned on me that it was waiting here! And Washington sang teach them how to say goodbye when he said goodbye, compared to the teach me how to say goodbye flashed by Washington in Hamilton's duel monologue...
LMM's singing skills are just... let's not talk about it... I saw an answer on Zhihu saying that you can't evaluate a thing that doesn't exist (cover your face again), I agree. In fact, as a person who has not received professional vocal training, he may not sing badly, but in a stage play, he has to sing duet with professional players every minute, and the difference is really obvious. My senior sister said it well, it is simply a public execution.
But where he doesn't need singing skills and only needs attitude, his performance is very good. After all, the lyrics are written by themselves, and it is probably good to express them by yourself. For example, in the two cabinet meetings where he satirized Thomas, such as the monologue during the duel, and even the chattering singing in the episode of extramarital affairs, all... very good.
20200718: I was walking and listening to it today, and I heard the song "take a break". After the two sisters met, Philippa sang Angelica, Renne sang Eliza, and the next sentence was LMM sang the schuyler sisters. My ears are suddenly sensitive - something strange came in (covering your face... it feels like a crow or a duck in the middle of the babble....
And then a word about Leslie. I think the songs in the whole show that touched me the most were wait for it and the room where it happens. Hamilton's story, how to say it, I don't know how similar the real person in history is to the description in the stage play, if it is really similar to the description in the play, then I think this person is blessing... in the sense that He somehow knows his mission, instead of looking for the so-called meaning of life, he is right on track doing what he wants to do from his heart. So to be able to be so self-driven, effortless. Effortless does not mean that he does not have to work hard to do these things, but that he does not need external driving force, and is completely self-sufficient in accomplishing things that are impossible in the eyes of outsiders. Not everyone has such luck.
In contrast, Burr's situation is more like ordinary people like me. He is a little mediocre. The first wait for it is Burr's inner monologue under the rapid climb of Hamilton, saying that he is willing to wait for his chance. After the climax of the song, Leslie sang the phrase "wait for it", which I thought was very good. It was calm on the surface, but what seemed to be holding back was the turbulent emotion behind it.
Another song, the room where it happens, even if I watch it n times, I still get goosebumps when I watch it again. I think his transition between narration and roles is very smooth and easy, and he can be very strong when his emotions are strong (here borrowed the adjective for personal favorite food used by Diancha Xier) - such as his magical and super coherent paragraph The movements of trotting all the way, sitting down, and putting your legs on the table - when you need to pull away, you can regain your composure in seconds. The gestures are full of control, so many large-scale movements, the singing is still stable. As an actor, he seems to have put on a great performance effortlessly, and you can imagine the effort behind it. In the end, the clicked boom turned off the lights. He was frozen in the shadows and couldn't see his expression clearly, but he could vaguely see the slight ups and downs of Leslie's body after the big move. At that moment, I felt that although the music had stopped, it reverberated far away. I don't know what to say, but I like it.
Looking at the interview later, Leslie is said to have put on sympathy weight while his wife was bringing the baby. Anyway, she gained a lot of weight (still covering her face). Then a search found out that he actually starred in the Murder on the Orient Train. I thought I had seen that movie back then... After watching the backstage interview, everyone said that Leslie was probably the most serious actor in the whole show. I don't know why, I have a vague feeling that he may be a bit like... Burr in the show. Well, it's better not to comment.
In addition, I think Leslie has some special pronunciations of words, the p sound of "happens" he sings, and... There are some places that I can't remember now, um, I don't know how to say it, but I just find it interesting. Then most of the crew's mics were placed in their hair, on top of their heads. Even Washington's is on the top of the head, but what doesn't make Leslie's is on the ear and the mouth.
Then again, it was Xiao Qiao. Emma Joe, lovely Joe. When I watched the opening scene for the first time, I didn't know it was Xiao Qiao's voice, and I didn't know that George III had a dime relationship with the show. I just thought the voice was quite special. Not beaten. Then after watching you'll be back, I immediately turned on the human flesh mode and searched for his videos on youtube for a night. His spit-splattered no don't change the subject, and then he finished singing with a mouth full of saliva calmly, and the ability to not blink at all that he didn't know how to cultivate, and the whole soft temperament! ! ! ! Ah, and the voice line! ! Well I like him a lot.
Selfishly, I naturally hope that George III will appear more, but at the same time, I feel that the quantity must be guaranteed. I think the current three songs are not bad, but after the third song is over, the king continues to eat melons on the stage and watch the play. In the Adam administration scene, I think it's okay to let Xiao Aojiao continue to eat peanuts on the stage for a while (especially in this section, Leslie sings a section and then turns her head to face the stunned face of George III who is high in the corner. scene), but later reynolds pamphlet asked the king to play square dance with the group and throw flyers... I don't think it's necessary. I personally think that it is better for Qiao San to keep a distance from normal people. In addition, the extramarital affair is such a crap. As for him, has he been beautiful for so long? With Qiao San's character, why don't I think he is more like him, laughing a lot in his bedroom, and then going back to continue to struggle with the question of what tea should I drink today... (covering Face
Then to the classic foursome. First of all, I would like to say that I think the arrangement of LMM's double casting is quite a coincidence. When I watched it for the first time, I was a little dazed when Thomas appeared. I knew from the lyrics that they were different people, but I always felt that the two characters played by Daveed had very similar temperaments, so I was a little confused. Then I went to search and saw that LMM said that these people have similar functions to Hamilton. For example, Laurens and Philip both died because of him, and the other two groups worked with him, although one fought alongside him and the other two fought against each other. Hence the idea of double casting. Then I think of the one sentence summary of everyone at the opening, I fight for him, I died for him, I loved him... The statement of each of their double casting people is applicable to both of them at the same time. For the role, I think this arrangement is also very clever.
The best of the quartet is probably Lafayette/Thomas, and I also think Daveed plays both characters very attractive. But I think the best actor is the black big brother. If I didn't know it was the same person, just watching the show, I would think that they were two completely different people because their temperaments were so different. Unlike Lafayette and Thomas, although one can't even speak English well and the other is secretary of the state, Daveed's performance is too similar between the two characters. In addition, I still have a question that I haven't figured out yet: why is Thomas lame? I even ran to google whether Thomas Jefferson was really lame in the history (covering his face again... ) When I watched Daveed take Tony, he told a little story about how he practiced gymnastics when he was a child. I can't wait to stand split... The skill is deep.
Laurens/Philip's presence is weak. Hmm... he's still pretty fun playing a nine-year-old. Another melon is that he is said to be with Jasmine who plays Peggy/Maria. And in the official version in the Satisfied song, you can see that the two of them are looking at each other.
Well, then three sisters. Stumbled upon Renee is almost 20 years older than Philippa... can you believe it? Even if I look at Renee's recent departure, I can believe that she is 30, but everyone is 50... I think the three of them have their own voices, Renee's Satisfied is very good, philippa's voice is sweeter, and jasmine's voice Very sexy, straight to the heart. I like them all.
Finally, let's talk about Washington, who is always very angry. The appearance is really too hot, the man with his own BGM. The dude is always frowning, as if he could sacrifice himself at any moment. A few of his words touched me, one is dying is easy, living is harder. A saying that winning is easy, governing is harder. Yes, life is to climb one mountain after another, and every day is difficult.
As said on the Internet, watching hamilton to the end, you don't know why you are crying for the father of the country, but somehow you can't help crying. Every time I watch Eliza's last song, my eyes are still wet. And it's very easy to use, you don't even need a previous relationship, just open the last song and play it again. It could also be that my tear ducts are too developed.
Well, at the end, I will remember the interesting things I randomly searched in the middle.
Hamilton and Eliza have a total of 8 children (too able to give birth), the younger son was born after the eldest son died in a duel. In order to commemorate the eldest son, also named Philip, and then the mistress incident came to light when Eliza was pregnant with the sixth child. It is said that she took the ball back to her parents' home immediately...
Hamilton is said to have had 10 duels before the final duel... well, the world was different 200 years ago;
While watching the show, Hamilton asked Burr since when you became a democratic republican? I thought he was mocking Burr, but after a search, it turned out that there really was a party called democratic-republican at that time... well..
ps I listen to various songs of Alexandar in hamilton every day, and then look at the e-mail and msg of the caveman during the day, this name is poisonous...
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