Hamilton React PART 8!
Added 2024-10-22 18:00:06 +0000 UTCI feel like this show has surpassed every expectation I had. It is absolutely worth the hype!
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Cast Album for sure
Alexander Foster
2024-11-16 08:41:06 +0000 UTCHe's not claiming to be extorted. He *was* extorted. And he used his own money. "I never spent a cent that wasn't mine" He cheated, absolutely, but that's the "only" bad thing he did in this situation.
Lauren Groen
2024-10-27 21:04:31 +0000 UTCI wasn't sure if he was lying to be honest! I would have assumed these accusations would feature some vetting of the transactions prior.
Nicholas Filippides
2024-10-27 15:38:21 +0000 UTCI think you’re confused. “I may have mortally wounded my prospects but my papers are orderly …I never spent a cent that wasn’t mine” it wasn’t government money. It was his own.
Mikayla Prushik
2024-10-26 16:36:11 +0000 UTCWhen you are finished look up Howard Ho on YouTube he has some amazing Hamilton insights and music analysis
Kellen
2024-10-24 03:12:09 +0000 UTCAnd there's some historical speculation that the affair was actually a cover-up for the illegal venture. Remember, history is written by the victors, it's definitely skewed towards a certain point of view. In all honesty, we'll never know the truth.
theshadowfax
2024-10-23 08:54:21 +0000 UTCYou need to check out "first burn", it was the original version of "burn" but then Lin decided to make Elisa's reaction a little softer and it became what is now the version everyone knows. The original is amazing in it's own way and performed by all the actresses that played Elisa in the different shows around the country. https://youtu.be/r2ys-AimNbE?si=b1ue4xHgHOLnJ_w1
SherLoki
2024-10-23 03:57:40 +0000 UTCNo one knows for sure, but considering how few letters between Eliza and Hamilton were preserved, it's speculated that she did burn most of his correspondence.
Singing Wordwright
2024-10-23 02:08:27 +0000 UTCThanks.
Ms. Chuck Terry
2024-10-23 01:52:59 +0000 UTCSome expanded context for Hamilton being cornered and deciding to write the Reynolds Pamphlet. James Reynolds was accused of scamming war veterans out of the war bonds they received as compensation for fighting in the war. Those bonds were all but worthless as the government tanked under the Articles of Confederation, and their future value was looking up under the new Constitution, but wasn't a sure thing yet. Scammers like Reynolds bought the bonds from veterans for pennies on the dollar, a scheme known as "speculation", banking on the probability that eventually the value of the bonds would skyrocket and they'd become rich. It was highly illegal, and when Reynolds was caught, he decided to claim it was all Hamilton's idea, and since there were financial ties between Reynolds and Hamilton, it really looked bad for Hamilton and he could have gotten in a lot of trouble. So writing the Reynolds Pamphlet was not quite as stupid as it's made out to be here in the musical. Honestly, he was backed into a corner and coming clean very publicly was the best way not only to exonerate himself, but also to prevent gossip that he had somehow wormed his way out of trouble he rightly deserved, which would have not only destroyed his own reputation, but probably also damaged his family's reputation. The romantic in me also likes to believe that some of his decision was Washington's influence, with the whole "I cannot tell a lie" cherry tree legend and all.
Singing Wordwright
2024-10-23 01:50:00 +0000 UTCA rough translation of Hamiton's text of George Washington's farewell address: "Looking back at my administration, I can't really see WHERE I may have screwed up, but I know myself well enough to realize that I probably screwed up quite a lot. Nevertheless, I hope y'all realize I was trying my best and make allowances for my screwups, and that after 45 years spent zealously in my country's service, you'll overlook my failings, and let me go to my rest without censure. I look forward to the joy of living as a fellow citizen under a government that passes fair laws that allow us our freedom, which is what I've always wanted for us all." That's what he was saying, basically. It's beautiful writing, but a bit weighty.
Singing Wordwright
2024-10-23 01:32:33 +0000 UTCits funny to me bc the whole song ‘we know’ is about how he wasnt embezzling money he was just paying reynolds out of his own money😂
tilly
2024-10-22 23:38:57 +0000 UTCThey are singing the words of Washington’s farewell address written by Hamilton.
Michael from Seattle
2024-10-22 22:05:58 +0000 UTCWhat’s Chris Jackson’s best recorded performance of “One Last Time”? Cast album? Film? Kennedy Center Honors? At The White House at the end of President Obama’s second term?
Ms. Chuck Terry
2024-10-22 19:24:47 +0000 UTC
