Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Republicans do not pay their debts.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

Cole is on a roll !

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Thanks for reminding me that Van Jones needs to be slapped.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Everybody saw this coming.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

The words do not have to be perfect.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

People are complicated. Love is not.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Let’s finish the job.

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According to Lin Manuel Miranda, we all get “the best seat in the house!”

I must admit to having a crush on LMM – with his extraordinary talent and his wonderful spirit and his charming personality.  Move over Mnem!

I have pinned this thread in the sidebar for easy access over the long weekend.  (It is under Featuring in the sidebar and in the hamburger menu on mobile.)

Lin Manuel Miranda pointing and engaging with a crowd

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  5. 5.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    What’s Hamilton?

     

    Kidding. I didn’t sign up for Disney+ just for this, but since I have it, we’re planning to watch it sometime this weekend mostly to see what all the fuss is about. Can I confess that I’ve missed a number of other wildly popular musicals also, such as Phantom, Chicago, Cats or Annie? I do kind of wish I’d seen the local Annie production here some years back that had Wanda Sykes in it.

  6. 6.

    SFAW

    I must admit to having a crush on LMM – with his extraordinary talent and his wonderful spirit and his charming personality.  Move over Mnem!

    She’s getting the steel cage ready for the death match. There can be only one! [OK, so I’m mixing pop culture references, so behead sue me.]

  8. 8.

    Alison Rose

    I’d always wanted to see the show but it wasn’t something I could do, so this will be a good substitute for that experience. Friend added me to her Disney+ account too, so my tickets are on the house, so to speak. Now I’ll finally get all the jokes and quotes!

  11. 11.

    zhena gogolia

    I’m looking forward to it. But I hate watching opera on streaming, so I’m afraid this will be a little like that. I tried to watch Shostakovich’s Nose the other night and I made it 30 seconds in. I’m hoping Thomas Kail found a way to make it watchable. Normally, translating a theatrical experience onto a little screen doesn’t work.

  13. 13.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    Can totally relate to crushing on LMM – he was beautiful on Drunk History.

  14. 14.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: IMHO, one of these is not like the other. Hamilton is in a class of its own.

    Having only heard the soundtrack (a few dozen times), I’m really excited to see this!

    Be prepared for ear worms, though…

  16. 16.

    zhena gogolia

    @WaterGirl:

    I don’t. And my husband is confined to the living room and the TV is upstairs, so we have to watch on the couch. But it wouldn’t make any difference. I don’t like it on a TV screen either. (I guess I was unclear!)

  18. 18.

    MazeDancer

    Magnificent!

    The Cast! The Orchestra! The Songs!

    Had HamilBrekkie this morning.

    Had to stop at Intermission with my eyes full of tears and heart filled with awe.

    Waded into Act Ii. But so much excellence, again had to pause.

    Lives up to the hype and then some.

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    @Mike J:

    Lewis topping the leaderboards in both practice sessions today!  F1 is back!

    I have no idea what either of this sentences means.  I need to get out more.

  23. 23.

    zhena gogolia

    @WaterGirl:

    Or just audio. It’s distracting to me to see close-ups of stage performers. On the Met, you can see every false eyelash.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    Hoping the Hamimaniacs find it satisfyingly entertaining; its appeal has constantly eluded me* so shall passively observe reaction here (don’t have Disney+ anyway).

    For sometime afterward (not in the least as it contains spoilers):

    Fact-checking ‘Hamilton’ the musical

    *Certainly not the first – nor likely the last – pop culture phenomenon to do so.

  25. 25.

    H.E.Wolf

    Cast of “Hamilton” singing at the White House in early January 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV4UpCq2azs

    Comment by Daveed Diggs, who played Thomas Jefferson in the original Broadway production, on the performance linked above. The quotation is from a recent article: https://theundefeated.com/features/five-years-ago-hamilton-turned-a-revolution-into-a-revelation-what-now/

    “The most iconic moment for me is still when Chris [Jackson] is singing ‘One Last Time.’ Behind him is a portrait of George Washington, and here’s Chris Jackson playing George Washington, sitting right in front of him is Barack Obama, who is in his last term as president, our first Black president in his last term as president, watching a Black man playing the first president, singing about deciding that presidents would have last terms, in front of a portrait of the first president that he’s playing. You saw all of American history at one time. I cried. Everybody cried.”

  28. 28.

    Citizen_X

    @SFAW: What’s Hamilton?

    Ahem. {Neil Young voice}: There is a town in south Ontario/It’s kind of an old industrial shithole with a bunch of drunks around

    {/Neil Young voice}

     

    Seriously, though, psyched to watch tonight!

  29. 29.

    Victor Matheson

    I got to see Hamilton on Broadway a couple of years ago with my family. Not the original cast, but still completely awesome.

    One very clear memory I have from that day is the woman sitting behind me with her two daughters saying before the show, “Girls, look around you. Here are 1,000 people all having the best day of their lives.” What a great thought from her.

  30. 30.

    ThresherK

    Filming a live stage musical is always tricky. They can’t all be done the same way, even if a method serves one work well. It seems like this was done right and it should be boffo. Looking forward to it.

  34. 34.

    Diceros bicornis

    But aargh! Subtitles in other languages are not ready yet! My French partner was looking forward to the chance to understand a bit of what I’ve been on about these last few years. Ah well it takes time and skill to translate those lyrics and do it well. We can wait a little longer.

  35. 35.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    @WaterGirl:

    Drunk history is a TV show on Comedy Central. On the show celebrities get drunk and talk about history and then their drunken stories are re-enacted in scenes with other performers.

    Here’s a clip on YouTube, from the LMM episode. The full episode is great – it’s on Hulu, I think.

  40. 40.

    Shana

    @zhena gogolia: I’m with you on being disappointed by most filmed theater, but NYT, WaPo and the New Yorker have all said it’s a good production of the show, so I’m hoping they’re right.

  41. 41.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    @Shana: Just finished watching it, and they did an amazing job of it. There’s enough views of the whole stage to appreciate the choreography, and enough medium and close shots that it doesn’t feel like a high-quality bootleg. I only have one small quibble with the editing choices after my first viewing. May find more later, but right now I’m very happy with it.

  42. 42.

    low-tech cyclist

    So for those of us who don’t have Disney+ and weren’t really contemplating getting it:

    1. how much does it cost to sign up for it in order to watch this, and
    2. do you need cable TV to watch, or will a good broadband connection suffice?
  46. 46.

    Arclite

    Lin Manuel is a goddamn national treasure. What a talent, and also apparently a really nice person.

  47. 47.

    jackmac

    My wife and daughter — huge Hamilton fans — camped out in our family room for a 2 a.m. (Central) premiere, finally staggering to bed after 4:30 a.m. I caught up with them a few hours later. They were tired, but absolutely delighted to have seen it.

    I also want to see Hamilton, but passed on Friday’s dawn patrol and had a good night’s sleep instead. This will be running nonstop on Disney for months on end and I’ll have plenty of time to catch it.

  49. 49.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    True Hamilton story:

    After my husband had heard it enough for the lyrics to start resolving into words, he noticed the line in Wait For It: “My grandfather was a fire and brimstone preacher”.

    Him: Really? Burr’s grandfather was a preacher?

    Me: Yes, he was Jonathan Edwards’ grandson.

    Him: I didn’t realize he meant THE fire and brimstone preacher!

  51. 51.

    Darkrose

    I was wondering how well the live performance would translate to screen. Answer: brilliantly.

    I’m kind of overwhelmed right now.

  52. 52.

    Dadadadadadada

    After months of manfully resistance, I finally caved and joined Disney+, only so I could watch Hamilton, and my god, it’s fantastic.

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