What's it like to watch to a five-year-old, Obama-era Broadway production on a streaming platform in 2020? Helen_E_Shaw and MarkHarrisNYC discuss watching Hamilfilm
This show is in-your-face at a moment when nothing is allowed to be in your face. Photo: Courtesy of Walt Disney Studios/YouTube Hamilton officially lands on Disney+ on July 3, over a year earlier than fans originally expected. Ahead of the occasion, Vulture asked theater critic Helen Shaw and columnist Mark Harris to watch the film version of the musical, and discuss the experience of watching a five-year-old, Obama-era Broadway production on a streaming platform in 2020.
And then the second change is, obviously, that we’re having the Black Lives Matters rereckoning specifically in the theater, and how this show does or does not make radical statements, how radical it actually is, also formed a different conversation in my brain than four years ago. Harris: Except that of course you can’t put out of your head the terrible current state of the world while you’re watching it, so, like a lot of pieces of great American political art, it’s relevant both in times of optimism and in times of darkness. In the Obama era, there was hope that we were at least embarking on a path of progress that would continue.
Harris: I couldn’t agree more. I also think that it’s a way in which the Disney+ Hamilton points to something that is probably going to preoccupy all of us who love theater in the years to come: How do you create a more genuinely inclusive, progressive, broad-gauged theater in a system of capitalism that is designed intrinsically to exclude people? I mean Hamilton on Broadway did a pretty great thing by not only creating the ticket lottery but publicizing it and then turning it into a thing.
Shaw: During this conversation I was having with Isaac Butler the other day, one of the things he said, which I thought was interesting, is he asked, “What does it actually mean that there are Black and brown people playing the Founding Fathers?” He’s certainly come up with his own answers, and so I’ve been thinking about that, and when I was watching it last night I realized that the passage of time had radically changed for me what it means.
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