Hamilton: An American Musical

[Original Broadway Cast Recording]

4 LP Box Set

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Hamilton: An American Musical

Original Broadway Cast Recording

4 LP Box Set

Artist: Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

Title: Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Musical Soundtrack

UPC: 075678666919

Release Date: 2016

Record Label: Atlantic

Limited four vinyl LP set.  The original Broadway cast album of Hamilton, a fusion of hip-hop and pop-driven musical theater, is now available from Atlantic Records.  Cast members from the blockbuster new musical Hamilton, which recently opened to widespread critical acclaim at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, began recording their parts for this release in August of 2015.  This album was produced by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter, founding members of the Grammy-winning hip-hop band, The Roots.  Hamilton is a musical about Alexander Hamilton, with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda. The show was inspired by the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton, by historian Ron Chernow.

Inspired by the Ron Chernow biography, Hamilton: An American Musical is an innovative, hip-hop-charged stage musical about U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton. That's right, hip-hop (and ethnically diverse casting) meet the 18th century. Its creator, book writer, composer-lyricist, and lead actor, Lin-Manuel Miranda, had his Broadway breakthrough in 2008 with In the Heights, a musical about the Latino-American Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights that also incorporated rap music into its rambunctious songbook. Miranda won a Tony and a Grammy for his songwriting for the Best Musical winner. With Hamilton, he draws on rap, contemporary R&B, pop, and classic show tunes for a dynamic style that isn't just ambitious but accessible and catchy -- and there's plenty of conventional melody. The well-over-two-hour production does a good job of balancing tone and styles, so for those who find rap, or rather theater balladry, something to be endured, relief is just around the corner. Recorded with care over several days instead of the usual single recording session, and with production oversight by Questlove and Black Thought of the Roots, the cast recording opens with alternately rapped and sung exposition on "Alexander Hamilton." The concept of rapping historical figures can take some adjusting to, but it's the decidedly non-period R&B/21st century pop-flavored music and modern vernacular (with explicit language) in the distant setting that takes some suspension of disbelief. Once that happens, and the listener is confronted with the device quickly and impressively, it's smooth sailing. The rhythm and wordplays are at such high levels -- lyrics are often delivered rapid-fire with interruptions occurring seamlessly in rhyme and in tempo -- it's hard not to be won over pretty much from the start, especially with lyrics like the sung political advice, "Talk less, smile more/Don't let them know what you're against or for" and meticulous, smile-inducing rap rhymes ("skill with the quill," etc.). Hamilton's verbosity is a running joke in the show, which comes to an apex in the "Cabinet Battles," exercises in rhetorical grandiloquence executed via a rap smackdown between Hamilton (Miranda) and, among others, Thomas Jefferson (Daveed Diggs). Another standout is the tender pop ballad "Wait for It" by Leslie Odom, Jr. (as Aaron Burr) and the cast. If there's a significant knock on the show, it's that there's so much information communicated in the songs -- facts, reading of documents, summaries of events -- it would certainly be tedious if not accompanied by an unusually entertaining presentation, and some will decide that it still is. However, given the musical's fairly radical rendering and the limited access to the show -- any Broadway show -- this recording seems a vital one, and time will tell if the musical is a watershed in big-budget musical theater. ~ Marcy Donelson

TRACK LIST

1.1 Alexander Hamilton - By Leslie Odom, Jr., Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 1.2 Aaron Burr, Sir - By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr., Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan 1.3 My Shot - By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Leslie Odom, Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 1.4 The Story of Tonight - By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 1.5 The Schuyler Sisters - By Renée Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Leslie Odom, Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 2.1 Farmer Refuted - By Thayne Jasperson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 2.2 You'll Be Back - By Jonathan Groff, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 2.3 Right Hand Man - By Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 2.4 A Winter's Ball - By Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 2.5 Helpless - By Phillipa Soo, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 3.1 Satisfied - By Renée Elise Goldsberry, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 3.2 The Story of Tonight (Reprise) - By Anthony Ramos, Okieriete Onaodowan, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, JR 3.3 Wait for It - By Leslie Odom, Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 3.4 Stay Alive 3.5 Ten Duel Commandments - By Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jon Rua, Leslie Odom, Jr., Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 3.6 Meet Me Inside - By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, Jr., Anthony Ramos, Christopher Jackson, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 3.7 That Would Be Enough - By Phillipa Soo, Lin-Manuel Miranda 4.1 Guns and Ships - By Leslie Odom, Jr., Daveed Diggs, Christopher Jackson, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 4.2 History Has It's Eyes on You - By Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 4.3 Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) 4.4 What Comes Next? - By Jonathan Groff 4.5 Dear Theodosia - By Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda 4.6 Non-Stop - By Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Christopher Jackson, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 5.1 What'd I Miss - By Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 5.2 Cabinet Battle #1 - By Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Okieriete Onaodowan 5.3 Take a Break - By Phillipa Soo, Anthony Ramos, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée Elise Goldsberry 5.4 Say No to This - By Jasmine Cephas Jones, Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sydney James Harcourt, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 5.5 The Room Where It Happens - By Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 6.1 Schuyler Defeated - By Anthony Ramos, Phillipa Soo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom, JR 6.2 Cabinet Battle #2 - By Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Okieriete Onaodowan 6.3 Washington on Your Side - By Leslie Odom, Jr., Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 6.4 One Last Time - By Christopher Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 6.5 I Know Him - By Jonathan Groff 6.6 The Adams Administration 6.7 We Know - By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom, Jr., Okieriete Onaodowan 7.1 Hurricane - By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 7.2 The Reynolds Pamphlet 7.3 Burn - By Phillipa Soo 7.4 Blow Us All Away - By Anthony Ramos, Ariana Debose, Sasha Hutchings, Ephraim Sykes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 7.5 Stay Alive (Reprise) - By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Phillipa Soo, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 7.6 It's Quiet Uptown - By Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton 8.1 The Election