And the score contains no hip-hop!”
Sigh.
Give Hamilton a chance. It’s not a hip hop show. It really isn’t....it’s really amazing, well done, beautiful, tragic, poignant, inspiring and informative.
But I’ve said too much already. I know that at FR I am in a minority, and I accept that lot.... :).
I'm glad you enjoy it. The hip-hop music is really a deal-breaker for me. Hip-hop is almost nausea-inducing for me. But I admit I'm a musical snob. 99% of what I listen to is classical. Any show that is based in a hip-hop/rap style of music was simply not targeting me. And the creator of the show is a jerk, so do I really need to listen to what he has to say about anything?
I also do not like the look of Hamilton from the few clips I have seen. It seems to be very stylized in the manner of a Shakespeare production with characters simply performing numbers in the middle of nowhere with scantily clad chorines in pantaloons and corsets in some numbers. And, sorry, I don't like the inter-racial cast playing historical figures. Since so many of the fans of the show are libs, I wonder if they would have rejected it had the characters been played by people who looked a bit like their historical counterparts? Maybe they went inter-racial because white guys can't rap?