anonymoose
Classical Liberal
Easily the worst play I’ve seen in my life.
‘Hamilton’ review
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anonymoose
Classical Liberal
And that includes h.s. plays.
serendipity
Verified User
Total woke bollox!
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
serendipity
Verified User
No not in its entirety, but what I have seen is enough.
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
I figured if I didn’t like the play at least there’d be decent music being a musical.
Music was terrible. The “orchestra “ was a band with a piano player, guitarist, drummer.
FFS, I play more complicated pieces than that hack did on piano. And the guitarist could only strum chords. I don’t think he knew any more than half a dozen.
About 40% of the “songs” were rap. And really bad rap at that.
Music was terrible. The “orchestra “ was a band with a piano player, guitarist, drummer.
FFS, I play more complicated pieces than that hack did on piano. And the guitarist could only strum chords. I don’t think he knew any more than half a dozen.
About 40% of the “songs” were rap. And really bad rap at that.
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
Imagine an opera that has a shitty band as the orchestra and the vocalists are 4th tier rap artists. If you can even imagine that.
Matt Dillon
Semolina comes from wheat
Wow, that's bad.
Matt Dillon
Semolina comes from wheat
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
If my wife hadn’t dragged me to go see it I would’ve walked out after 30 minutes at most. I started looking at my watch 20 minutes into it.
I did feign a coughing attack twice to go out into the lobby for silent relief.
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
I guess the playwright was trying to make some kind of statement with mostly black actors dressed in 18th century period aristocratic costumes but what that statement was supposed to be was completely lost on me.
To each their own, I guess. I liked it, didn't love it as much as I was supposed to I don't think. My kid on the other hand could not stop playing the soundtrack, he thought it was phenomenal. I think Miranda is a little over-rated, but, worst play ever? Damn, for me, it wasn't even close to that.
It's a bit ironic that Miranda was attacked for making the Founding Fathers all minorities, and then was criticized for making 'The Heights' cast too white. There just is no pleasing some people.
It's a bit ironic that Miranda was attacked for making the Founding Fathers all minorities, and then was criticized for making 'The Heights' cast too white. There just is no pleasing some people.
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
The music was bad. The instrumentals didn’t even fit with the rap. It was as if the musicians were no better than intermediate level at best.
There was zero dialogue. Zero.
As to minorities playing the founding fathers, I’d just like to know what the point was.
Maybe you can explain? I’m actually curious about that. Other than mild curiosity I don’t really care. That wasn’t what made the production so… worse than bad.
I went in with an open mind and expected at least some form of entertainment based on the reviews.
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
Actually I posed the question and sort of got an answer here:
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-ca... the whole,diversity issues, and music styles.
So the playwright likes hip hop therefore he had Founding Fathers performing it in the form of blacks.
Does this make ANY sense? A so called musical with the orchestra a shitty five piece band playing simpleton music out of beginner learning books supporting really poor rap lyrics????
That doesn’t go over my head at all. It’s just consistent with the incredibly poor quality of the whole train wreck of a play.
If such was the case, the production you saw was bad, often the case for traveling shows, especially when they are presenting an eight year old play, all about take the money and run. Where did you see it?
If you went there expecting to hear Kid Rock or Will Smith rap it certainly wouldn’t measure up to your expectations, and it certainly was anything but woke
And the Founding Fathers were played by minorities to show that the ideals and values they defined represented all Americans, that county’s history belongs to all Americans, to move away from the normal portrayal of the early leaders
anonymoose
Classical Liberal
Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in Anchorage. The last musical I saw previously was Jersey Boys at the same venue and it was fantastic.
I saw Mama Mia in Hamburg Germany. Again, great!
You’re just making excuses for a terrible play. You really think the original broadway show had dialogue? It’s the same fucking show!
The band played different music? Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t the musicians’ fault they had to perform simpleton scores. They didn’t make mistakes. FFS how could they? Professional musicians playing beginner music?
The only expectation was to be entertained. Other than that I had no idea what to expect. Besides, like I said, it was so bad I couldn’t tell what was woke about it.
Ok, that’s your interpretation and fine with me. That’s not what made the play so bad.