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"I was in high school when it came out and having a group of friends composed mostly of white liberals and kids from recent, well-off immigrant families made it an absolute hell for like a year."
"It's more about taste than theater in particular too - I can't judge people for caring about drama as an art form, but too many new celebrities and comedians seem like they can recite songs from wicked and hamilton from memory."
"The VP of the company, who's a fat greying 35 year old man who has a collection of vapes in his office, kept 'joking' about how he'll transfer her to our Hamilton office which is 2 hours away from here. Well turns out it wasn't a joke, because last night she sent me a call in tears saying she's gett"
"There was a period in like 2016 where almost every woman I knew was obsessed with this play. As someone who isn't into musicals and hasn't seen it, was it really that good? It seems like it attracted people who normally had zero interest in theater."
"Even taking out the obvious big events, it was the peak of Fight Song/Hamilton era woke neoliberalism, Silicon Valley triumphalism, terrible poptimist criticism, and Marvel garbage was at peak hegemony too."
"Glee, Hamilton, and its consequences were a disaster for the human race."
"Ended up in an arguement with some girl at work about the reasons for the Hamilton burr deal. I was using information I got from gore Vidal and she was using the musical as her source material. Anyway I had never actually listened or watched Hamilton as I am a straight man. I went home and watched s"
"The insane worship of Lin Manuel Miranda and Hamilton?"
"Avenue Q is like the antithesis to NPR liberal Hamilton type musicals"
"It is impossible to tell a complete or even semi complete story of the revolution and founding of the country without Adams. He represented British soldiers after the Boston Massacre despite it being incredibly unpopular because of how devoted he was to the right to counsel, he was completely oppose"
"By the way, this also has me thinking: what are some forgotten associations with this cringy subculture? I know there's Black Panther and RBG (obvious ones from this tweet), Harry Potter, Hamilton, now Wicked."
"As I surveyed the crowd on Lafayette Square right next to the White House, [Lin Manuel Miranda] sang the song "Dear Theodosia" from Hamilton a cappella...I joined the thousands of voices singing along; everyone knew every word."
"Basically, Hamilton The Musical is hiring a 'social responsibility manager', aka Musical Theater Stasi. Responsibilities include general apparatchik behavior such as spreading racialized propaganda and providing field reports of ideological conditions among the cast and crew to marketing and public "
"Although the one observation about Christians in my country is they tend to be band kids loving Hamilton while the Americans seem like popular frat kids."
"if hamilton came out in 2018, that chapo guys would be too scared to make fun of it this is why we need our problematic queens, in spite of their obvious struggles with mental retardation"
"Millennials: Had a vision for the future and strong optimism in work (WeWork, girlbosses, TED Talks, hustle culture), politics (Obama, Hamilton-style political revisionism, 'Yes We Can,' 'Love Wins'), and tech (iPhone euphoria, Arab Spring optimism)."
"I learned that the poet from the inauguration quoted Hamilton. Literally beyond parody lol Harvard degrees are a farce"
"Glee, Hamilton, and its consequences were a disaster for the human race."
"Her indoors wanted to watch it and she gets sensitive if I immediately start shitting on the stuff she suggests we watch so I really went in to it trying to like it, but my god is it the lamest goddamn thing in the world."
"I know there's Black Panther and RBG (obvious ones from this tweet), Harry Potter, Hamilton, now Wicked."
"As I surveyed the crowd on Lafayette Square right next to the White House, [Lin Manuel Miranda] sang the song "Dear Theodosia" from Hamilton a cappella...I joined the thousands of voices singing along; everyone knew every word."
"the one observation about Christians in my country is they tend to be band kids loving Hamilton while the Americans seem like popular frat kids"