Got to see the show today

[brainwane]

I am astonished. I tried the lottery, for the first time, and won! All the other people in the front row with me were, of course, people who had won those tickets via the pre-show lottery, so we were all sort of hazy with surprised happiness!

I had listened to the music a few times before going, but was curious about how the visuals affected my viewing. I feel like I understand some of the plot twists and character choices better now that I've seen it. And I'm going to put under a cut a few things about staging and props and body language, etc. that were particularly cool to me:

• How much paper there is, constantly passing from person to person, being written on or read from or (in one instance) as handbills tossed in the air
  
• George Washington handing a quill to Hamilton when offering him the right-hand man position, and then a sword when giving him a military command, and then a quill when asking him to help write Washington's farewell address ... and then Hamilton during "Hurricane" taking a quill from Maria Reynolds
  
• The props and staging during "Hurricane" evoking the everything-jumbled mental state of Hamilton's situation by comparison with the effects of a hurricane
  
• The King stating that he felt blue, then stamping his foot, instantly commanding that the light on him turn to blue
  
• The King using finger quotes when saying "country" in one of his songs when referring to the US
  
• The King remaining onstage and dancing a bit during the first bit of "The Adams Administration"
  
• Our rewind-and-replay view of the moment when Hamilton met the Schuyler sisters
  
• Seeing a primarily Black and Latino & Latina cast playing these historic white folks -- amazing in a way I cannot articulate
  
• The costume changes, acting, choreography around the aftermath of death in the second half
  
• The use of the nested stage turntables to show different sides of a situation, or characters drifting towards or away from each other, or more
  
• The ensemble dancers - I don't go to many Broadway shows so I can't judge them by those standards, and they might be just standard Broadway-level good, but they seemed amazingly good to me!
  

Also I figure you all should know that there was spontaneous cheering and applause from the audience after

Immigrants: We get the job done.

It's pretty fresh in my memory so I can probably answer questions in comments if you want!