{"id":931,"date":"2019-08-30T15:07:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T22:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2019-08-30T15:07:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T22:07:48","slug":"hamilton-musical-beyond-outstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/hamilton-musical-beyond-outstanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton musical beyond outstanding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before  seeing &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; I listened to its soundtrack while reading through  most of its lyrics and some of the excellent annotations <a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/albums\/Original-broadway-cast-of-hamilton\/Hamilton-original-broadway-cast-recording\">on the Genius  site<\/a>, stopping before I learned too many of the reveals in Act 2. So I  knew going in that clever lyrics, great storytelling, and creative rap  presentation are a given; but some of the music, particularly for women,  is very &#8220;Broadway Musical!&#8221; (why the high nasal singing?) and nowhere  near as inventive as Sondheim. Will it be a Broadway musical with a rap  twist, similar to &#8220;The Lion King&#8221;&#8216;s puppetry+masks innovation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well. Add stagecraft, choreography, the headlong pace, and generally  outstanding performers and this was the greatest damn musical I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before seeing &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; I listened to its soundtrack while reading through most of its lyrics and some of the excellent annotations on the Genius site, stopping before I learned too many of the reveals in Act 2. So I knew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/hamilton-musical-beyond-outstanding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}