S3 E4: Hamilton (dir. Kail, 2020 )

Crow Talk: Film Squawk

In a live capture adaptation, this Broadway phenomenon reenvisions the epoch of America’s Founding Fathers with hip-hop, diversity, and optimism.

Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and directed by Thomas Kail

Talent:

Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton

Leslie Odom, Jr. as Aaron Burr

Renee Elise Goldsberry as Angelica Schulyer

Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton

Daveed Diggs as Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson

Christopher Jackson as George Washington

Jasmine Cephas Jones as Peggy Schulyer/Maria Reynolds

Okieriete Onaodowan as Hercules Mulligan/James Madison

Anthony Ramos as John Laurens/Philip Hamilton

Jonathan Groff as King George III

Articles/References:

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Hamilton Soundtrack

Cinderella (1997)

Blindspotting (2018)

Waves (2019)

In the Heights (2021)

“Love doesn’t discriminate

between the sinners

and the saints,

it takes and it takes and it takes

and we keep loving anyway.”