Hello Everyone,
Spoiler Alert!!!!!
Long time no see, hope you all are alright and safe during this pandemic and if were like me and was working during the shut down then I really hope you are safe. Strange time we are living in and even though I've been working, I still have been watching stuff I mean there is nothing else to do right. And I know I haven't been writing well now I am, so deal with it. Just kidding! Just trying to lighten the mood. Now let's get started with the review of 'Hamilton The Musical.'
Now I never saw Hamilton live on stage and I will be honest I wasn't really keen on seeing it. Because I am not a fan of rap nothing against Lin Manuel Miranda, it's just not my thing. But it came on Disney Plus and I figured why not and watched it. I will say this I got to hand it to Miranda for doing a rapping musical because when you think of theatre and specifically musical theatre rap is not the first thing that comes to mind. So to take the two things and put then together was out there and he actually made it work and also in a pretty catching way.
Anyone who loves the musical please don't hate me for saying that I don't thing that it lives up to all the hype. It's well done, well acted it's just I hear and see people and they are so enthralled in the musical that for me it just din't lived up to that hype. Sorry!
I did enjoy the few non-rapping songs, I thought Helpless and Satisfied are good companion songs to each other. I like the fact these two songs are told through the point of view of the two sisters and are performed beautifully. Eliza's solo was wonderful and emotional and fit well into the story. Evan some of the rapping parts was catching that it even had me tapping my foot.
And as far as the story goes it seemed fairly historically accurate. It was well researched and showed you everything Hamilton accomplished and all the people he also pissed off but hey he was a politician and that's politics for you. What I really enjoyed about the story was that it was more or less about the interactions between Hamilton and Aaron Burr and exactly what happen between them and what and how they got to that fatal duel. And it goes to show you that if these two were able to put their differences aside then they could have achieved a lot together as a team. They were both intelligent and could have made the country all the better for it but instead suffer all the more for it.
I also did enjoy the ending because it switched gears and explains a little bit about Eliza's story and goes off and tell is a little about what she accomplished in the fifty years after Hamilton dies and before she did. Then the very end with her gasp, I like that they are so many interpretations to it and its left up to the audience to decide what it could mean. I like those type of endings.
Even though the musical does not live up the hype for me it is well done that I can see why so many would find enjoyable but hey I'll let you be the judge. For me when I watch it I was thinking okay it is a musical about Alexander Hamilton no big deal. But with that said I did find things that I really like about it just not enough for me jump on the crazy band wagon.
-Katiejayforever
P.S. Stand by for next review!
