Blog Post 1
By: Avery Showell
Hamilton is a musical inspired by the one of the founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton. The musical brings a sense of comfort and being accepted to the genre. For one, I never watch musicals or if I have watched one it was mandatory in grade school. The subject of this historical context could come off very uneasy and simply boring to many. This is why Lin-Manuel Miranda and his unorthodox, but traditional in certain neighborhoods, ways of teaching and entertaining are valuable. The art of hip hop comes in a form to where many people can vibe to it different types of ways. Lin-Manuel Miranda offer lines of great rhymes and bars that you would see with any other rapper. He utilizes the use of a hook to catch the flow of the beat and engage the audience in the same way a rapper would when releasing songs on a mix-tape or album. So the comfort of feeling like history and and hip hop come together and not feel like a drag is an outstanding effort by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the producers, and staff that helped portray Alexander Hamilton.
The Musical offers fun and excitement to the audience and its readers which is an advantage to the production of the show. When you really sit down and listen to the different rhyme schemes and alliterations that are used in the process of Hamilton you start to appreciate the way it purposely connected to the roots of hip hip. There are times where you can even figure the sound is more “Eminem” like and you try to compare in your mind how similar the wordplay is using different vocabulary. Hamilton opens a window between musical theater and the body it brings and the attention of hip hop/rap communities while educating on the historical America.
