Anyone else have an SO that cannot turn this soundtrack off?

My wife is a theatre person and especially musicals. She is obsessed with Hamilton.

Don't get me wrong, it is very very well done.

Guess I need to make it to New York soon and drop a load of coin.....

you know its sold out till December 2016 right?
you either have to pay 500 bucks for a seat or win the lottery of 500 people

I'd wait till it came to Houston

Haven't seen it but I saw the piece that 60 minutes did on it, looks fun but not $500 fun.

Daughter and I are obsessed.
Friend saw it last month and turned us on.

Come to think of it, this was for me easily the best album of last year.

I agree it is tremendous. Wait for it could almost stand alone as a single. Gives me chills.

It is just so smart.

Free on Amazon Prime music BTW.

I had no idea about this until this thread. Gave it a listen today and it is really great! Thanks.

I am completely obsessed with this soundtrack.

I had never heard of the show until they performed on the Grammy's, and then I heard a couple other references to it so I checked out the soundtrack online and haven't stopped listening to it since. I think it's the best musical ever written. The complexity, depth, and density of the lyrics, the storytelling of them, the quality of the music, and the melding of all the different songs and themes, not to mention the the different styles of music all fitting together... it's never been done like this before.

Then when you realized that the main star of the show also wrote the whole thing, lyrics AND music, it's mind boggling.

I've listened to the whole thing all the way through several times now, and each time, different things strike me and move me.

Can't recommend it enough. Read up on the Hamilton story, and read up on Lin-Manuel Miranda (the star/writer) and then bask in the music because it's truly that good.

My kids (both theater geeks) and I have been obsessed since last summer. So I can pretty much perform the whole thing from memory.

I'm not gonna throw my shot, shot

Just set the all time record with 16 Tony nominations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/theater/hamilton-tony-nominations-record.html

Miranda v Odom is going to be more compelling than Batman V Superman.

It's all my seven year old requests to listen to whenever he's in my car.
Which is fine because soundtrack is that good!

Saw it a 3 weeks ago. I went into the show not really knowing anything about it except for the cost (not cheap). I definitely enjoyed it although I personally don't think it was worth $450+ to watch it (Stubhub).

This show is definitely all about the dance and music. There are really no "effects" whatsoever. There weren't even that many props. They are just constantly bringing out desks, tables and chairs for Hamilton (Miranda) to write on. There is also a pretty cool "turntable" where the stage rotates.

I do wonder how this will play when it travels and they recast all of the parts. These guys are talented and everyone has heard the soundtrack in the original casts voices. Hope they can do it justice. I'll see it again when they come through Texas as long as I don't have to part with my other Kidney.

We will try the lottery for the Sept 3rd 2pm showing. Going to Waitress that night at 8

I'm late, but just finished the album start-to-finish last night. Since it's all audio, I can't recommend enough a script to follow who all is singing.

I'm a 28 year old dude, not a theater nut, no kids yet, but It's Quiet Uptown crushes me. I seriously don't think I'll keep it together when I see it acted out in the play.

Saw Hamilton last week, and it's amazing. While Lin-Manuel isn't the best singer on stage, it's awesome to see the guy that conceived and wrote this brilliant piece of work perform his creation. Can't say enough about the sheer genius it took for someone to make this subject matter appeal to the masses in the form of musical theater.

Waitress is really good, too. Not ground-breaking or nearly as powerful as Hamilton, but the lead performance is pretty incredible. Can't remember her name, but she kills it.

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Saw it a 3 weeks ago. I went into the show not really knowing anything about it except for the cost (not cheap). I definitely enjoyed it although I personally don't think it was worth $450+ to watch it (Stubhub).

This show is definitely all about the dance and music. There are really no "effects" whatsoever. There weren't even that many props. They are just constantly bringing out desks, tables and chairs for Hamilton (Miranda) to write on. There is also a pretty cool "turntable" where the stage rotates.

I do wonder how this will play when it travels and they recast all of the parts. These guys are talented and everyone has heard the soundtrack in the original casts voices. Hope they can do it justice. I'll see it again when they come through Texas as long as I don't have to part with my other Kidney.

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I think that's always a concern with a touring show. A lot of probably grew up hearing the quintessential Les Miserable performance on cd/tape/PBS, but it was still just as good live in Texas with a different cast.

So this is sort of good news. The recording they captured with the original Broadway cast is going to be released on October 15...


...2021.

It's Disney, so maybe they need ample time to ramp up the mouse money machine.

JCRiley09 said:

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It's Disney, so maybe they need ample time to ramp up the mouse money machine.

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Apparently they paid $75 million for it, so yeah...pretty much this.

https://deadline.com/2020/02/disney-paid-75-million-hamilton-movie-deal-lin-manuel-miranda-largest-film-acquisition-ever-1202849929/

Wow blast from the past. 4 years later and we will finally see the show in Houston this year as part of our season purchase.

Haha by the time this comes out, I will have seen the live production 4 times. Still, so excited! The talent difference between the cast in Chicago and NY was so noticeable that I'm curious to see how the current NY cast stacks up against the original. I'm so used to hearing the soundtrack that I think I'll like it more just for that reason. Although the gentleman we saw play Hamilton we saw most recently *sounded* much better than LMM does on the recording, so.... But mainly I'm just dying to see Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette because no one I've seen so far can top him in the Guns & Ships rap.

So the Ft Worth Bass Hall run scheduled for this summer has been pushed back to Jan/Feb 2022. I assume other stops on the tour have been postponed as well. So I guess that means we'll see the recording of the original Broadway cast in 2023-ish?

Ragoo said:

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Wow blast from the past. 4 years later and we will finally see the show in Houston this year as part of our season purchase.

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Prepare to be disappointed when it gets postponed.

J.P. 03 said:

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So the Ft Worth Bass Hall run scheduled for this summer has been pushed back to Jan/Feb 2022. I assume other stops on the tour have been postponed as well. So I guess that means we'll see the recording of the original Broadway cast in 2023-ish?

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Postponed here is Denver as well.

They postponed the general public ticket sales in Denver, the show hasn't been postponed/canceled (yet).

I wonder if people who want their money back if it gets postponed for almost 2 years will get screwed like those in Fort Worth are.