Review: "Hamilton"
Monday, July 6, 2020 at 12:30PM by Eric Blume
Disney+ made a shrewd and smart move by releasing the filmed-stage movie musical Hamilton over the July 4 weekend, at a time when the country really needs it. The themes and ideas of this Pulitzer Prize-winning theater phenomenon from five years ago seem even more relevant and powerful than they did upon arrival, and the movie version, which debuted this weekend, is a stage capture of the principal original Broadway cast, edited together from three live performances filmed in June 2016.
Filmed versions of staged material always have their limitations: one can never capture the visceral pump of energy that’s happening in the Richard Rodgers Theater before and during a performance of this show in particular. As such, the Hamilton movie ultimately succeeds best in preserving an unbeatable group of actors in the biggest show of this century, exactly as the original creators intended it to play...