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re: Did I miss something at HAMILTON?

Posted by: ryhog 12:18 pm EST 11/01/15
In reply to: re: Did I miss something at HAMILTON? - Delvino 11:50 am EST 11/01/15
A few more observations.

The opening song provides the context, pre-history, setting of the play in what could be called narrative or presentational form. Not unlike what a chorus does in the Greeks, or a prologue does in Shakespeare.

Burr's periodic "narration" is actually something else entirely. It is an ongoing illumination of what he is thinking as his character evolves. And that arc is totally story and totally drama and totally necessary.

There is another place where I have read comments that there is "commenting" and that's in It's Quiet Uptown. But what is being said by others there is in character-based on what they were observing, not some external editorializing by LMM.


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