The revolution is finally being televised,
thank goodness.
The long-awaited live-capture of Lin-Manuel
Miranda’s shake-the-rafters musical “Hamilton”
comes out Friday (03) on Disney+, a chance to
celebrate America’s independence with some of
its Founding Fathers.
The timing seems ideal. Or, given all that’s shook
this nation in the past few months, could it not
be quite revolutionary enough?
The show features the original Broadway cast
— who Miranda has called “an incredible ’28
Yankees of actors” — and was filmed in the
summer of 2016 at The Richard Rodgers Theatre
in front of a raucous crowd. RadicalMedia, which
taped the last night of “Rent,” recorded two
performances of “Hamilton” and asked actors on
their days off to come back and do close-ups.