In just a weekend, over Independence Day, more people will see “Hamilton” than ever before, as the show premieres on Disney+.
“There’s a level of inspection of the show that can be quite different than the endorphin rush of watching it knowing that might be your one chance,” says Kail. “In some ways, this will allow it to settle because now it’s yours.”, the words mostly haven’t changed . But as a rhyming, hip-hop omnibus of national history and identity, slavery and immigration, its power has resonated differently at different times.
But after the election of Donald Trump, “Hamilton” took on a more magnified aura of resistance. Just days after polls closed, Mike Pence, then the vice-president elect, attended a show. The cast, doubting Trump and Pence’s support for minorities,asking him to “uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us.”
“I wrote it as kind of a throwaway line and in the Trump administration it gets this roar of approval,” says Miranda. “You almost feel the audience trying to say, ‘This anti-immigrant sentiment embodied by the current administration is not who we in the audience are.’ Things hit differently than they did in the Obama administration. And they’ll hit differently next year.”
“Maybe it can be of use and of service in a way that was totally different than when we played our last performance two months ago or opened four months ago,” says Kail. “Access was always the challenge for us. Access is always the challenge for theater. Here was a chance for us to make the door wider and lower the barrier.”
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