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The world turned upside down
Hamilton, with original cast, arrives on streaming
By TJ REID
For the Keizertimes
What is the purpose of a
review? To temper or raise ex-
pectations? To introduce read-
ers to the themes, characters,
and plot points of a piece be-
forehand? To show that the re-
viewer is super smart and that
people should have been nicer
to him in high school? Yes, all
of these things, but the preem-
inent reason is undoubtedly to
share whether or not the pro-
duction is worth your time and
money. Hamilton is one of those
things that is hard to review be-
cause, let’s face it... you already
know if you’re going to watch
this or not. Nothing I can pos-
sibly say will change your mind
one way or another at this
point. You might have already
watched it, in fact; everyone
knows Hamilton, and now it is
on Disney+. Instead of wast-
ing everyone’s time by adding
to the eleven-time Tony Award
winner’s mountain of rave re-
views I will, therefore, focus
on the Disney+ version of the
eminent musical in particular:
Simply put, it is a worthy offer-
that comes with watching mu-
sicals in person.
I would be remiss, howev-
er, if I did not mention that
like most musicals, Hamilton is
a p p rox i m a t e l y
three hours long.
This is somewhat
remedied by the
fact that you can
pause the play
whenever
you
want to go pee,
but it also might make it a chore
to sit through if you watch it
with kids (see my nephews Pe-
ter and James for an excellent
example). That being said, Dis-
ney also does an admirable job
of cutting out an f-bomb here
and there to make the expe-
rience a more family friendly
PG-13.
Hamilton on Disney+ is, over-
all, a slightly more complete ex-
perience than the one presented
in, say, the offi cial soundtrack. I
say “slightly” here because the
music and lyrics really make
up the bulk of the production;
as anyone who is lucky enough
to have seen the play in person
can tell you, the sets and chore-
ography are purposefully min-
imalist so they do not distract
from the story. This may come
as a bit of a surprise to anyone
who has heard the soundtrack
and
imagined
elaborate setpiec-
es and compli-
cated dances, but
it works. Expe-
riencing Ham-
ilton like this is
really the best
way to go until the virus re-
strictions end and we can all go
on a fi eld trip to New York to-
gether. When that happens, I’m
buying.
Well, not really.
Hamilton is now available on
Disney+.
review
Submitted
Daveed Diggs, as Marquis de Lafayette, and Lin-Manuel Miranda, as Alexander Hamilton, reunite
on the battlefi eld in the fi lmed stage production of Hamilton.
ing that is also the best possible
way to experience the show
just short of buying a ticket to
pre-COVID-19 Broadway.
First things fi rst: Hamilton on
Disney+ is a professional fi lm-
ing of the stage production, not
an adaptation. That being said,
the camera work is surprising-
ly dynamic: There are multiple
angles and depths presented,
giving the whole experience a
slightly more cinematic feel. If
one of the characters has a par-
ticularly impressive reaction, for
example, you can bet that you
will get a close-up of that char-
acter. This forced focus is useful
for someone like me who of-
ten gets overwhelmed with the
sheer amount of sensory input
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