My Thoughts:
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Removed from it being an all encompassing phenomena, the way it eases you into it being a hip hop musical about Alexander Hamilton is extremely silly.
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The show extremely picks up the slack after "Satisfied."
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I think he doesn't do a bad job but I think Lin is a little too dewy eyed to be playing this character.
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I have listened through the recording many times but haven't actually seen how these performance play out on stage. I love Leslie Odom Jr.'s weird try hard smile he has plastered on most of the show. He is easily the best part of the whole thing.
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Angelica is a terrific performance of a character who has basically nothing to do. She's having, like, an emotional affair with Hamilton or something? This is in part because it needs to stay true to the historical record, but the show in general is a little sexist.
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My partner is of the opinion that all the war stuff is pretty boring and this time through I think I basically agree. Lafayette is still fun though.
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They edited out the two times they says "fuck!" Fucking Disney...
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I found the lazy susan swirling around to be kinda distracting at the beginning of the show but by the end I really was enjoying how it got encorporated into every part of the show. I mean, if you're installing this lazy susan into the stage floor you better get your money's worth.
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Thomas Jefferson makes for a more fun villian then King George, and a lot of the problems in act one are solved by having him around.
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I read in Hamilton: The Book that Christopher Jackson tried to have his own little moment of reflection on portraying a slaver by having George Washington make a face of disappointment and regret when he is on stage in the final number while Eliza says "I spoke out against slavery!" and in the recording it comes off as pretty goofy. "I knew there was something I forgot to do!"
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I did get teary eyed multiple times. When it sells, it sells!
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I appreciate how much of an ensemble show it is! It really is great theater, though with some obvious baggage. Your aunt's problematic fav.
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"Hamilton, only on Disney+" is a team up that really does Hamilton no favors in terms of it's allegience in the culture wars.
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More then once it struck me that this is a show about the people on the money.