#1
Posted: 8/6/15 at 1:23am
Hamilton opens tonight. Post them here kids.
Updated On: 8/6/15 at 01:23 AM
Hamilton Broadway Reviews
#2
Posted: 8/6/15 at 3:16pm
The new thread. In case anyone had not yet heard there is a lottery and there will be fireworks.
And, now we can leave the Previews thread behind. . .
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#3
Posted: 8/6/15 at 3:20pm
Normally I look forward to reading all the reviews, but Teachout has a point
https://twitter.com/terryteachout/status/629308848428462080
#4
Posted: 8/6/15 at 3:26pm
Every time I hear that there will be fireworks, I imagine Lin being asked, like the Prince in the final of The King and I, "Why fireworks?"
The Prince's response (as I'd like to imagine Lin-Manuel Miranda's) was, "I like fireworks!"
#5
Posted: 8/6/15 at 3:30pm
Is the show paying for the fireworks? Or is the city? Or is BWW?
HUSSY POWER!
------ HUSSY POWER!
#6
Posted: 8/6/15 at 3:32pm
I would assume the show. They are making a ton of money.
#7
Posted: 8/6/15 at 3:46pm
The invitation on the splash page of the show's website makes it sound like show is, but the fieworks are over the Hudson and "people can also listen to a 12-minute musical compilation of Americana that accompanies the display via simulcast by logging on to www.hamiltonbroadway.com/fireworks."
I'm curious about the Americana.
#8
Posted: 8/6/15 at 5:55pm
According to Lin on Twitter, it includes "America (F*** Yeah)" from Team America: World Police.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#9
Posted: 8/6/15 at 6:00pm
Do you think the NYT might send Isherwood in on this one since Brantley reviewed it at the Public?
#10
Posted: 8/6/15 at 6:09pm
Ben was there Monday night.
A transfer review of a show always goes by default to the original reviewer and of course it is Ben's prerogative. And there is zero chance he is going to pass the Broadway review of the most important musical of his tenure to Ish.
#11
Posted: 8/6/15 at 6:14pm
"Ben was there Monday night.
A transfer review of a show always goes by default to the original reviewer and of course it is Ben's prerogative. And there is zero chance he is going to pass the Broadway review of the most important musical of his tenure to Ish."
Makes sense. I just wondered if, from a journalistic standpoint, the parties involved might want a more fresh perspective since Ben had already reviewed the show.
#12
Posted: 8/6/15 at 7:12pm
The AM New York critic who gave it 2.5 stars at the Public gives it 4 stars on Broadway.
#13
Posted: 8/6/15 at 7:19pm
^Shortest, most non-detailed review ever?
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#15
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
Posted: 8/6/15 at 7:35pm
I find the fireworks gauche. Like, "We're almost literally going to throw away a couple of hundred grand now into the air now. Thanks for buying all those Premium seats, folks!"
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#16
Posted: 8/6/15 at 7:42pm
#17
Posted: 8/6/15 at 7:49pm
"^Shortest, most non-detailed review ever?"
It could be even briefer, honestly: "I am making myself love it so I don't look like the spoilsport."
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#18
Posted: 8/6/15 at 7:57pm
The fireworks may be a nod to In The Heights as well. "Look at the Fireworks". I think the reviews will be nothing but outstanding for this.
#19
Posted: 8/6/15 at 7:59pm
"The fireworks may be a nod to In The Heights as well. "Look at the Fireworks". I think the reviews will be nothing but outstanding for this."
Could they turn on a.few hydrants too
#20
Posted: 8/6/15 at 8:02pm
I consider myself team-Hamilton, but I do think the fireworks are kinda over the top. You know if Harvey did this for Finding Neverland's opening people would have nothing but bad things to say.
#22
Posted: 8/6/15 at 8:04pm
If this happened for finding Neverland , some here would still be going on about it, I mean they still are going on about Harvey!
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
Tazber's: Reply to
Is Stephen Schwartz a Practicing Christian
#23
Posted: 8/6/15 at 8:07pm
We were talking about a lot of the little details of this opening night at work the other day (glossy passes for the party, nice wristbands, and continually running shuttles) and we were trying to guesstimate the cost of all this. Of course, later that day they announced the fireworks, and we just gave up.
Brantley's review is in
Updated On: 8/6/15 at 08:07 PM
#25
Posted: 8/6/15 at 8:33pm
"I am loath to tell people to mortgage their houses and lease their children to acquire tickets to a hit Broadway show. But 'Hamilton,' [...] might just about be worth it."
WOWZA.
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