All About Hamilton: The Musical

Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network Show Name: Hyperfixation NationEpisode Title: All About Hamilton: The MusicalEpisode #5 You are listening to Hyperfixation Nation, the podcast with your host Blake.In this episode of Hyperfixation Nation the Podcast, I will talk about the musical Hamilton and how it broke all Broadway standards. I will cover how it is different from every other Broadway musical, where it was historically accurate vs. when an artistic license was taken, and my opinion on some of the characters' decisions.Segment 1: Introduction to the topic So we’ve got the music, the actors, and the politics in the show that are different from most Broadway musicals previously. We’ve got the creative license that Lin Manuel Miranda took because it made the story more interesting, it rhymed, or it was just easier to put in the show. And we’ve got the slightly controversial decisions of the characters like Burr shooting Hamilton and Washington serving the amount of time he did. Segment 2: How Hamilton is different from previous Broadway musicals!MusicRapHip-hopR&BSoulTraditional show tunesBlack and brown actors were on stage but the story doesn’t depict any slavesLin-Manuel Miranda, the person who wrote the music, is Puerto Rican and wanted to incorporate the feeling of being sidelined into the music and Alexander Hamilton's character but also wanted to go against the white-washing of history. There is a musical with an all-white cast that is a show about a similar time that portrays the story in a much different and could be called racist, way.Having people of color play white historical figures flips the tradition of white people in blackface being on stage. It showcases the good and bad things that these founding fathers didSally Hemmings for exampleSay no to thisThe relationship between Angelica and HamiltonThe politics/political stand that this musical representsLaurens especially being very for an all-black military forceBlack actors playing the all-white Founding FathersThe layers of the