I had missed the initial excitement over HAMILTON when it first came out. I ended up missing a flight to the Bay area and drove up there instead for Thanksgiving. On the way back I decided to listen to it start to finish and was really taken by both the story and the construction of songs. I caught it when it came to LA. While I did like it better when I saw it on stage, I was very excited to watch it with the original cast. This was really well directed in terms of the shots and the way the film makes it more subjective with it’s editing and close-ups than could ever be done just sitting in the audience in a theater. I also never noticed Leslie Odom Jr.’s way of speaking. He like speaks through his teeth a bit. It doesn’t come through on the album and that took me back a bit during this production. It was very nice to revisit though, especially with July 4th coming up.
