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Here's the second act version with the Muppets.

The Muppets thing is a really funny idea in theory, but it gets old after a couple songs. Having Camilla as Angelica also takes away all of the clever wordplay in Satisfied because it is all clucking.

It is the entire show. Only two F-bombs in a two hour 40 minute running time full of words were silenced to make it PG-13. To say that it is "not quite the same as the stage show" because two words got censored is a stretch. Lin-Manuel Miranda approved this, and it's his show. If he's fine...

It's supposed to be here this fall, too, but it won't. The question is when they will reschedule it. It will happen eventually. We just have to wait for it.

I can't and don't mean to speak for him, but I don't think Colin was saying that Hamilton will actually close soon. I'm sure it will continue to run for years to come (once the coronavirus is vaccinated away.). Just that over time it becomes easier to get tickets to older shows as newer ones...

Seriously? The whole show is full of things that are out of place for the period, including, you know, people singing; modern musical styles like rap; musical and lyrical references to other works that didn't exist until hundreds of years after the time period presented in the show; people of...

You'll get to see it live eventually. It will be back on the road as soon as it is safe to be.

A discussion with the original cast Schuyler Sisters from the virtual Essence Festival about the filmed version:

I think that will probably happen...eventually. But I wouldn't count on it for a while. Disney paid $75 million for the rights to release this, so they will probably want to do that at some point as an additional revenue stream for recouping that. But for the time being, its value to Disney...

Odd. I thought their diction was impeccable and didn't have any trouble understanding any of it.

I believe that English closed captioning is available -- Miranda tweeted that it would be -- but I didn't need them so couldn't tell you how to turn them on. I will say that when my mom and I saw it live, she requested to listen to the cast recording in advance in order to familiarize herself...

As I'm sure you know, there are complicated legal and contractual things with regards to the various unions that prevent this from being done more regularly. However, I think the pandemic might actually help this happen more often in the future. Many Broadway producers seem to feel that having...

Right. It felt completely seamless to me, in terms of I was not sitting there thinking about where the edits were. I was just inside the story of it. Even though I know it was edited together from a few days of work, it felt like a continuous performance, To an extent, I am sure that's true...

I actually don't mind this. I think Thomas Kail did a great job as director of deciding when to use the wide shots of the stage and when to go close in. Obviously, film is a different thing than theatre because the camera tells you where to look, but I think he did a good job of balancing the...

Slashfilm has a good interview with director Thomas Kail about the process of filming the show: https://www.slashfilm.com/thomas-kail-hamilton-interview/

I suspect so. As far as I can recall, it was also the case when I saw the show. I suspect that one will stay exactly as-is with the bleeping. There's no reason to change that. The other two (which are being edited) are "I get the fuck back up again" in "Yorktown" and "southern motherfuckin'...

Plus, the edits are being made with the approval and cooperation of the author of the piece. It's not like it is being censored if he chose to make the change. So if he's okay with it and it's his own work, everybody else should be okay with it too.

Yes. But not even really to the degree that the full word is heard. On the explicit version of the cast album, in the song Say No To This, if you listen to the lyric very carefully, Miranda says "fu--" but trails off without finishing the word. So you don't hear the "-uck." Absolutely...

This is getting a little confusing because we are discussing the Hamilton film here, and in the music forum, and in the Disney+ thread. In at least one of them, there was some discussion about the language in the film. Lin-Manuel Miranda has answered this on Twitter following the news that the...

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Yes, absolutely. He knows the people at Disney very well and he knows that they will protect the integrity of his creation. Also, like most of us, Lin-Manuel Miranda grew up loving the Disney film musicals. He literally named his son Sebastian after the character in The Little Mermaid. I...

There is already a clean version of the Broadway cast album that takes out the F bombs, and that was released long before Disney had anything to do with this. I am sure that the Disney+ version will mimic the edits that were made for that. Like I said, Lin-Manuel Miranda is a smart guy. He...

I think there are plusses and minuses to this distribution model. The plus is obviously that we get to see it much sooner than we would have otherwise, and it's a great thing to have available during quarantine. It also maintains and boosts the Hamilton brand (for lack of a better term) while...