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[esmenet]

also, I basically cannot stop listening to Hamilton?? I'm only like 2/3rds of the way through bc I keep going back to relisten to things; I keep finding more and more parallels and clever tricks with the lyrics and rhythms and music. so far I have listened to Room Where It Happens, Right-Hand Man, Non-Stop, and Wait For It about 20 times each, and everything else between/before those 2 or 3 times. little bits of them keep getting stuck in my head. we dream of a brand new start/but we dream in the dark for the most part///you get nothing if you wait for it, wait for it, wait--!

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[aldanise]

Isn't it? I can't decide whether my musical theater geek self or my founders-era geek self is happier. I lost about an hour that I really didn't have a few days ago to trying to pin down a bunch of Rent musical references.

[esmenet]

Honestly i know very little about musical theatre, and not all that much more about that era of american history, so i can't really comment on those aspects -- but purely from a musical and writing perspective, it's amazing. (ASK ME ABOUT THE DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED CHARACTERS OF BURR AND HAMILTON, WHERE HAMILTON IS SUCH A HUGE FORCE OF PERSONALITY THAT IT REALLY DOES FEEL APPROPRIATE TO COMPARE HIM TO LIFE AND LOVE AND DEATH, AND WHERE BURR WILL NEVER, EVER BE ABLE TO MATCH HIM FOR THAT; HE JUST WANTS TO BE IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME, ALWAYS. or actually probably don't ask me about that until I've listened to the rest of it, but you get my point.)