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re: Did I miss something at HAMILTON?

Posted by:	RonAnnArbor 09:02 pm EST 11/02/15
In reply to:	Did I miss something at HAMILTON? - Kerick 04:24 am EST 11/01/15

So glad you spoke up- as there are plenty of us who didn't get this show's raves either... I hated the hiphop, though I liked some of the "songs", in particular Jonathan Groff's "You'll be Back" which I found to be the single song in the show I could listen to over again. Quite frankly, while I downloaded the cast album from iTunes for my complete collection of all musicals, I am never going to listen to it again, and I certainly wouldn't see the show again... BUT I would certainly recommend it to friends as a good evening of theatre -- good energy, creative staging, and an interesting story most of us have never heard about. Duels -- really?...and something new and original. I sat halfway back in the orchestra and have to say that I didn't get 75% of the rap dialogue either -- especially in Act I, though Act II did seem to both slow down dialogue wise, as well as tell its story more linearly and clearly. I felt bad for the Israeli vacationing family sitting next to me who bought tickets at a very high resale cost because they "heard it was the best thing in years"...They left at intermission because they didn't understand it. I totally agree that I didn't get the rave reviews -- Ironically, I shared my views with a friend who loves the show, and she spent an hour trying to "teach me" about how I should love hiphop and rap...um, no way.

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