Re-released for July 4!
The one where we play lots of music and explain what it means. The production company behind Hamilton the Musical gave us the full rights to use and publish their music in our pod – so you’ll hear some big numbers in this episode. You’ll also learn a lot about history from a hip-hop musical that treats its audience as the intelligent beings that our listeners are!
There are some big plot spoilers in here – but no worse than if you simply listen to the musical’s soundtrack. On Disney+, Hamilton the musical is rated PG-13, but we spare you the worst of the language here. You will hear ‘d**n’ and ‘h*ll’ amid the lyrics of the songs we include from the Hamilton musical. (Lin-Manual Miranda, the creator of Hamilton, also composed the music for Moana; the two sound rather different.)
Here are some questions to see how much you understood from today's show:
1. What was James' favourite line from the musical?
2. In the song "Guns and Ships" which country was the superpower and who were they fighting against?
3. What do you think George Washington meant when his character sang "History has its eyes on me"?
4. Do you think different people can believe different versions of the same period of history?
5. Where did they make the new US capital and what is it called?
6. The Hamilton Project found that the musical has what percentage of historical accuracy?
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Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, 2016. Copyright © Warner Music.
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