Nonplussed

Hamilton (2020) w/ Gillian Pensavalle


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This week, we break down the latest and greatest addition to Disney+: Hamilton. We gush about the turntable, the costumes, the voices. We dissect to the best of our ability the few musical themes we could spot. We talk (briefly and naively) about the show being an entryway into more in-depth learning and critical thinking of the founding fathers. And even after all that - we bring on the one and only Gillian Pensavalle host of The Hamilcast (also of The Residuals, True Crime Obsessed, and Ted and Michael Read Sketches Into Microphones) about having the show whenever we want it for the low, low price of $6.99 a month.

Have you read this?

  • “Correcting Hamilton,” The Harvard Gazette: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/10/correcting-hamilton/
  • “In ‘The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,’ Ishmael Reed Revived an Old Debate,” The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/in-the-haunting-of-lin-manuel-miranda-ishmael-reed-revives-an-old-debate
  • The Washington Post speaks with the Cabinet about Helpless/Satisfied: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/one-key-scene-helped-cement-hamilton-as-a-broadway-legend-the-team-that-crafted-it-explains-how/2018/11/21/a1dcaba6-e915-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html
  • Follow the trajectory of The Bullet at DigitalSpy: https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a33022157/hamilton-disney-plus-the-bullet-explained/

All other research and references completed using Wikipedia and IMDb.  

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