I think, based on not having seen it, I would go for Leslie Odom Jr. as lead. He's certainly a better singer than LMM, and he's got a couple of fabulous solo songs.
Having seen it, I agree. LMM is an artistic genius who should, on general principle, be given as many awards as humanity can come up with, but LOj is a better performer.
The difference between Burr's solo numbers on the soundtrack and live onstage is astonishing. (Vs Hamilton's, where if you've listened, you've basically experienced it.)
Just listening to the soundtrack, Leslie Odom Jr is amazing. LMM is brilliant, and there's a lot I like about his performance, but I really don't think there's even a comparison there in terms of skillz.
Oh, hey, if have to drive down to Livermore to pick up my new cat (who is allegedly Maine Coon, but not enormous, so who knows what that means) that might be a good opportunity for me to listen to this Hamilton thing...is there a recommended recording or whatever?
-t, you can stream it free on most services. If you use Amazon Prime, you should download it or put it into a playlist because there's a bug in the song order when streaming.
How long is the drive? Because you may want to stop partway through Act 2 if you're the one driving, and listen to the rest at home.
Yeah, LMM will have plenty of awards. Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score. Though I do wonder if maybe there will be one that people push back on, just to make it not a complete steamroll, and Best Book seems the most likely for that. Again, I haven't seen Shuffle Along, but maybe that could be a contender.
Wasn't there some study about not expecting anyone to functionally brain before 10am or something? I dunno but I feel like I read about it here at b.org.
I don't know about a study, but I have remarked here that once we went to a strict 9am start time my employer started paying me for getting nothing done beyond drinking coffee in my first hour, and lost the productive hour I would have been working from 5:30 to 6:30pm or so.
Wasn't there some study about not expecting anyone to functionally brain before 10am or something? I dunno but I feel like I read about it here at b.org.
I am so doomed next week. I'll be at the Ottawa office, and we've got 9am meetings the whole time. My body will think it's 6am, which is effectively the middle of the night for me and my sleep phase displacement disorder. I'm trying to shift my sleep schedule this week, but damn, it's difficult.
It's about an hour each way.
