Five Hamilfilm-adjacent Videos

[jesse_the_k]

I'm waiting to see the Hamilton film on Disney until I really need a treat. In the meantime, I'm enjoying all the new content that's available on YouTube. None of it has decent captions.

Hamilton Principal Cast on Its Relevance in 2020

Lin-Manuel Miranda: not a word has changed but the world has changed

Renee Elise Goldsberry: It's the voice of a revolution and the revolution continues

and more from Leslie Odom, Phillipa Soo, Daveed Diggs

direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pca3d3hvmds

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Fanvid to the Hamilton Polka

Al Yankovic recuts the movie to fit his parody "The Hamilton Polka" -- only the happier parts, it's a very silly vid.

direct link: https://youtu.be/onededbhtqw

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Behind the scenes 1: Lighting

from the New Yorker, "Behind the Scenes with Patrick Rizzo, a 'Hamilton' Stagehand - Who Told Stories with Lights"

direct link: https://youtu.be/hl11wtfgxqi

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Behind the scenes 2: Tiny hidden microphones

Fascinating facts: each and every mic has a duplicate mic on the same wire--so if a mic dies in the middle of the show, they can switch the standby mic signal into the PA.

The understudy/swing actors need a custom mic for each role they could play (because different costumes require different camouflaging) -- one actor has 14 mics!

Adam Savage gets all the details from Adrianna Bannon, audio engineer for the SF tour.

direct link: https://youtu.be/351dxqghbh0

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The Hamilton Cast Answers Twitter Questions

WIRED orchestrated this most-Hamilton of all social media interactions. They scoured the web for questions. Then all the principal cast members answer on a epic Zoom call with silly stories. You can see some of the real-time responses
https://twitter.com/wi_hamiltonsupp/with_replies

I should have figured out that the massive Tweeting situation was a marketing move:

Jan 15, 2017 question from Bethany - bfaythe

After seeing the show, my biggest question is HOW DOES THE HAMILTON CAST HAVE TIME TO SNAP/TWEET/MAKE VIDEOS DURING THE SHOW??? #superpowers

Reply on Jul 1, 2020 from Renee Elise Goldsberry wi_hamiltonsupp

The way we made it not exclusive was to use social media to share as much of the show as we possibly could with as many people as possible.

direct link: https://youtu.be/zfauy3oazow

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Want to find more? This YouTube link returns videos tagged #Hamilton posted this month

Comments

[laurashapiro]

THANK YOU!!!

Glad to be of service

[jesse_the_k]

These Times call for Time Wasting!

[kore]

THANK YOU, this is awesome!

[jesse_the_k]

<3 It was so much fun winnowing this list -- watched around 30 videos!

[princessofgeeks]

The first vid says it's unavailble? And the embed doesn't appear at all?

[rosefox]

Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNEdEDbhTQw

I can reproduce the problem, but not solve it

[jesse_the_k]

Sorry about that.

I had the same problem when I logged out of YouTube. Do you have a YT account?

YT is complicated, so it might be any number of other issues. I tried searching for the exact title while logged out, and it didn’t show me the video in the top 25. Perhaps IGN, who hosted the interview, has decided to make the video hard to find?

This link just worked for me when I was signed in:
https://youtu.be/Pca3D3HvmDs

[duskpeterson]

Oo, I hadn't seen any of these. Thanks!

[lannamichaels]

omg that Hamilton Polka vid.