Hamilton.
Yes, I'm joining the bandwagon.
I still live in Jakarta, thousand kilometers away from Broadway or West End, but it's 21st century. Every (or most of the) thing is on the internet.
Few months ago when the grammy hype was everywhere, there is one word that kept on buzzing here and there: Hamilton. Curious, I watched the grammy performance, and thought, why it was such a big thing?
Then last week came. We had a pretty long holiday and I spent my days in my room, streaming musicals on youtube. You know, me + musical = eternal love. I read about Tony nominees this year and found out Hamilton received 16 nominations. I wonder, why? So I dig youtube and tried to find some videos. And boy, now I know why they got all the nominations.
English isn't my native language, so when I hear a rap song, I could barely understand it. I then watched Hamilton's song video with lyric, and that's it. Lin-Manuel Miranda is a genius. The lyric was absolutely brillliant, like watching some epipsode from The West Wing but with setting on the 18th century. Add the music, the conversation, the music, the drama, then yes, no wonder Hamilton got 16 Tony nomination.
And the other great thing about Hamilton is it intrigues you to know more about the man himself, the history. I spent some time reading wikipedia about him, about other US founding fathers, just because of Hamilton, and I'm not even a US citizen. The power of arts!
So yeah, I might haven't watch Hamilton on Broadway, but I fell in love with it already.
And my fav, the Schuyler Sisters. Some feminism in 18th century, can't love it more.
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I still live in Jakarta, thousand kilometers away from Broadway or West End, but it's 21st century. Every (or most of the) thing is on the internet.
Few months ago when the grammy hype was everywhere, there is one word that kept on buzzing here and there: Hamilton. Curious, I watched the grammy performance, and thought, why it was such a big thing?
Then last week came. We had a pretty long holiday and I spent my days in my room, streaming musicals on youtube. You know, me + musical = eternal love. I read about Tony nominees this year and found out Hamilton received 16 nominations. I wonder, why? So I dig youtube and tried to find some videos. And boy, now I know why they got all the nominations.
English isn't my native language, so when I hear a rap song, I could barely understand it. I then watched Hamilton's song video with lyric, and that's it. Lin-Manuel Miranda is a genius. The lyric was absolutely brillliant, like watching some epipsode from The West Wing but with setting on the 18th century. Add the music, the conversation, the music, the drama, then yes, no wonder Hamilton got 16 Tony nomination.
And the other great thing about Hamilton is it intrigues you to know more about the man himself, the history. I spent some time reading wikipedia about him, about other US founding fathers, just because of Hamilton, and I'm not even a US citizen. The power of arts!
So yeah, I might haven't watch Hamilton on Broadway, but I fell in love with it already.
And my fav, the Schuyler Sisters. Some feminism in 18th century, can't love it more.
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