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Showing posts with label Hamilton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hamilton. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

HAMILTON and Ron Chernow Receive National Constitution Center's 37th Annual Liberty Medal

www.broadwayworld.com: The National Constitution Center hosted its 2025 Liberty Medal ceremony on Friday evening, honoring Hamilton and historian Ron Chernow, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Alexander Hamilton inspired the landmark musical that continues to shape how Americans connect with the nation’s founding story.

Monday, October 13, 2025

Talented High School Students Interpret 'Hamilton' Songs Into American Sign Language

laughingsquid.com: The talented high school students at ASL Theater in Florida impressively interpreted select songs from the now-iconic Lin-Manuel Miranda play Hamilton into American Sign Language, perfectly synchronizing with the audio of the original soundtrack.

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Ten Years On, Hamilton Continues to Provoke a Passionate Response

Playbill: It has been 10 years since Hamilton rocketed to the top of the musical theatre industry, dominating just about everything (and everyone) in its path. When it began performances downtown at the Public Theatre in January 2015, it was a word-of-mouth smash hit, picking up “you have to go see this” acolytes from the taste makers that flooded into the 300-seat venue at every performance. By the time it reached Broadway in July, it had evolved into the musical of its generation, shifting the industry landscape through the sheer force of its influence and popularity.

Monday, August 18, 2025

How We Know Aaron Burr Is Stuck: It’s in the Music

AMERICAN THEATRE: The second song in Hamilton, “Aaron Burr, Sir,” very conveniently features a chord progression that represents Aaron Burr throughout the show. As I’ve shown with the narrative chord progression associated with the opening number, it is possible for a chord progression to represent ideas. In the case of Aaron Burr, the chord progression represents a person, and that person represents an idea.

Monday, March 15, 2021

The Unraveling of a Dream. My life in the cast of Hamilton: An American Musical

by daniel james belnavis | Mar, 2021 | An Injustice!: I have never been certain that I would share my experience, my real experience, with the show publicly. I’ve gone back and forth about it a thousand times. It has taken me the better part of a year to write this, not only because of the pain and re-traumatization it brings, or because of the care and intention with which I am trying to handle this material, but because of the fear and anxiety I feel about dissenting from something that is such a major part of the zeitgeist.

Saturday, July 18, 2020

'Hamilton' movie credits explained: Visual applause for cast

Los Angeles Times: “Part of the experience of the theater is thumbing through that Playbill at intermission and looking for that person you admire, finding their headshot and learning more about them by reading their bio,” said Thomas Kail, who directed the stage show and the movie. “This felt like the most appropriate way to celebrate this onstage company: creating a visual Playbill, using a cinematic language.”

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

ETC introduces The Hamilton Programming Project for Eos Augment3d

LightSoundJournal.com: As the world waits for venues and productions to reopen, lighting students and professionals alike have turned to the virtual realm to hone their skills. Now, ETC has partnered with an award-winning Broadway lighting team to create a new educational challenge: The Hamilton Programming Project. Participants will use actual touring paperwork from the hit musical to finish prep on an Eos show file and recreate Howell Binkley’s Tony Award®‐winning lighting looks – all in Eos Augment3d.

Friday, July 03, 2020

The Disney+ movie of ‘Hamilton’ prompts a comparison of stage versus screen

DC Metro Theater Arts: With the official announcement from The Broadway League earlier this week that all Broadway performances are now suspended through January 3, 2021 (at the earliest), theater-makers and theater-lovers are faced with the very real issue of finding satisfying alternative modes of presentation and viewing for more than just the short term. Added to that is the fact that surveys have consistently shown that audiences would be hesitant to return to the theater even after the green light is given for reopening, until they feel that it is completely safe to do so – presumably after an effective vaccine and/or treatment for COVID-19 has been developed.