The Room Where It Happens - HAMILTON

[WendyHoused]

Anyone else watching this on Disney+ today?

Anyone having a watch party?

I've been counting down the days for 6 weeks - the millions of problems in the world can look after themselves for 1 day, I'm all about A.Ham A.Burr and Daveed Diggs being fantastic.

We have a menu and everything.

oh yes! we're very excited and are planning to watch tonight... Popcorn is being microwaved tonight!!!!!!

Mojitos! (sugar cane and rum and all the things he can't afford)

Have you seen it already?

yes! very lucky seen twice when it first opened in London.... been following it's progress from Broadway soooo I was good and ready when they announced a possible London move...
It's just sooo flippin clever and LMM is a wonderful lovely genius!!!

Saw it on stage last year and I’m so excited to watch it tonight!!!

Home early on a Friday so I'm about to watch it NOW!!!! I'm in the room where it happens and couldn't be more excited

I'd planned a trip to watch it in London this summer but couldn't go obv.

I have snacks and a glass of fizz for the interval.

SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!

I've bought some booze and going to sign up to Disney + for one month especially for it

I've seen it 4 times (so far). I'm so excited about seeing the original cast! Distracted myself with Frozen 2 to make it a Jonathon Groff double feature (Kristoff/King George)

@WendyHoused, DD is watching Frozen 2 for me.

Excellent work by your DD.
(Wasn’t a patch on the first one but Kristoff’s love song made me laugh)

How long is it on youtube for?

I liked it because I liked the songs but yeah, not as good as the first one. I love Disney though so I’m not complaining.

Does it get better? I watched the first scene and it seemed very am dram 😬

We are having Groff day in my house. Frozen 2 with the kids now Hamilton in peace!
Lucky enough to have seen it in London. I'm sure it will be amazing on the screen but I don't think the atmosphere will translate enough.
Can't wait though!

Our house was delighted. Some of us (me) cried. Jonathon Groff and Daveed Diggs are SO worth their money

Yep! Tissues were blubbed into in this house too! 😂

Watched it with the 13yo and the 8yo tonight. They are word perfect on the lot but have never seen it. They loved it.

I enjoyed it very much indeed. It's exceedingly clever. LMM is such a talent.

I have been looking forward to seeing this for months. No one in the family wanted to join me so I warned them all that I would be hogging the TV for the evening and didn't want to be disturbed.

Well I was constantly disturbed. DH had to bring MIL to A&E and I had to bring him parking money and dinner because he'd forgotten his wallet. . Thankfully she's home now and fine. Son and friend were in and out and finally DD came downstairs right at the end in the middle of Eliza's song with some request.
Ugh!!!!
Anyway it was brilliant despite having to pause it 28374664574 times.
I'll be watching it again and again.

Ha @gabsdot4!!!

That was my experience too!! Strict instructions to not disturb me as I was so looking forward to watching it.

Cue 'Muuum, where's this thing I've lost?'

'Muuuum, Hamilton is SOOOOO boring' (so why are you watching it then? Go away & let me watch it in peace)

The cherry on the cake was when DS announced just after the interval that he had had a raging toothache all day & we had run out of painkillers so I had to dash out to the chemist. Why he couldn't have told me earlier I don't know. (He was quite bad but it seems better today. I'm not totally heartless!!)

I still LOVED it though. And cried.

Also have only just realised that we get Disney + upstairs too so might barricade myself in the bedroom and watch it again

I loved it and watching it again tonight!!! Sobbed through It’s Quiet Uptown as expected. It’s just brilliant.

I also thought it might not be as good as it was in person because of the atmosphere, but the emotion from the actors floored me and made me feel 100 times more than I was expecting! Eliza's scream, and her gasp at the end, destroyed me. I loved both forms differently, but whichever way you watch it, it's one of the best musicals ever written!

I just hope we’ll get to see it live again. It’s just too sad to think we won’t!

I’m just beyond happy to get to see the original cast - something I’m always so sad I miss, especially with something like this. No one can top Daveed Diggs or Jonathan Groff in those roles. Absolutely amazing to actually see it.

I can’t believe someone thought it resembled am dram - have you seen much am dram?! Unfortunately I have, and a lot of student theatre in my uni days - there’s nothing am dram about this. Although I do understand if you haven’t seen a lot of live theatre then productions like this (cast on stage all the time, minimal set, no backdrops etc) might not necessarily be what you’d expect - DH has seen very few musicals and he struggles with this, although he did enjoy this. I’ve always loved productions like this though - I’ve always been more Brecht than Stanislavsky!

I was worried it would be disappointing but it’s definitely the best-filmed stage production I’ve seen.

The only worry i had which turned out to be true is that LMM just can’t keep up with the others (and the parts about how handsome he is make me cringe) - but I can’t begrudge him taking the lead role, I would want to as well if I’d written it 😂

@SinkGirl I agree about LMM but I still enjoyed watching him and think he’s a genius!

The only worry i had which turned out to be true is that LMM just can’t keep up with the others (and the parts about how handsome he is make me cringe) - but I can’t begrudge him taking the lead role, I would want to as well if I’d written it

This is an interesting read generally but there is a section about why LMM took the role of Hamilton.

www.mentalfloss.com/article/71222/20-things-you-might-not-have-known-about-hamilton