Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Deirdre Mulomby, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Thomas Kail’s Hamilton: An American Musical.
Reconstructed from a pair of live theatrical recordings and additional material compiled in June 2016, Hamilton features one of the last performances from the original Broadway cast of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s record-breaking smash hit cultural sensation, available on streaming for the first time.
At time of recording, it was ranked 20th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 22nd July 2020.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- Hamilton at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB Top 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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- Read Dee’s review of Hamilton at entertainment.ie, July 2020.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first public performance of work on Hamilton at the White House, May 2009.
- Daveed Diggs talks to e! online about performing Hamilton for Barack Obama at the White House, July 2016.
- Jeva Lange at The Week discusses Hamilton as an outdated relic of the Obama era, July 2020.
- Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker argues that Hamilton casts its protagonist in the style of Barack Obama, February 2016.
- Ron Chernow talks to History Extra about Alexander Hamilton and about Hamilton, January 2018.
- Ron Chernow discusses his story with The Evening Standard, December 2017.
- Michael Paulson and David Gelles at The New York Times discuss the lucrative business of Hamilton on Broadway, June 2016.
- Gordon Cox at Variety reports on ticket prices for Hamilton reaching over $1,150 on Broadway, December 2017.
- Rafi Mohammad at Harvard Business Review argues that prices for Hamilton were too low, June 2016.
- Jesse Lawrence at The Daily Beast reports on the incredible profitability of Hamilton on Broadway, July 2017.
- Michael Paulson at The New York Times discusses how far ahead in time Hamilton is sold out, May 2016.
- Dominic Cavendish at The Telegraph on the cultural phenomenon of Wicked, September 2016.
- Bree Rody talks about being exhausted by “the Hamilton discourse” at Medium, July 2020.
- Michael Paulson at The New York Times discusses the production of the version of Hamilton that appears on Disney+, June 2020.
- Chris Lindahl at IndieWire discusses the filming of Hamilton for the Disney+ release, July 2020.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes on why Disney decided to release Hamilton early on streaming, May 2020.
- Todd Spangler at Variety reports on the timing of Disney’s ending of trial membership of Disney+, June 2020.
- Todd Spangler at Variety reports on the massive jump in downloads of the Disney+ app corresponding with the release of Hamilton, July 2020.
- Ryan Faugnder at The Los Angeles Times on Hamilton as Disney+’s latest weapon in the streaming wars, July 2020.
- Emily Blake at Rolling Stone looks at the jumps of streams of the Hamilton soundtrack corresponding to the film’s release, July 2020.
- Zack Sharf at IndieWire on the success of Palm Springs for Hulu, July 2020.
- Louise McCreesh at Digital Spy reports on the blockbuster success of Greyhound for Apple TV, July 2020.
- Kyle Buchanan at The New York Times on the complex questions of Oscar eligibility in the coronavirus era, April 2020.
- Benjamin Lee at The Guardian on the decision to push back next year’s Oscar’s ceremony and extend eligibility, June 2020.
- Anne Thompson at IndieWire on the controversy over Hamilton‘s Oscar ineligibility, July 2020.
- Mark Malkin at Variety reports on Hamilton‘s chances at the Emmys, July 2020.
- Christopher Rosen at Vanity Fair on Disney’s rumoured awards strategy for Hamilton, July 2020.
- Darren Mooney discusses Hamilton as an effort to recreate the theatrical experience on streaming, July 2020.
- Darren Mooney reviews Western Stars for the m0vie blog, October 2019.
- Bill Desowitz at IndieWire on how Bohemian Rhapsody recreated Live Aid at Wembley, November 2018.
- Jonathon Groff talks to Vulture about his reputation as “a stage spitter”, August 2009.
- Jackson McHenry at Vulture celebrates Jonathon Groff’s spit in Hamilton, July 2020.
- Anthony Ramos talks to IndieWire about working on In the Heights, June 2020.
- Rebecca Rubin at Variety reports on the moving of the release date of In the Heights to 2021, April 2020.
- Thomas Kail talks to The Washington Post about moving from Hamilton to Fosse/Verdon, April 2019.
- Julia Alexander at The Verge on the breakout viral success of Tiger King, April 2020.
- Robert Mays at The Ringer on the viral success of The Last Dance, May 2020.
- Sarah Churchwell at The Guardian on the incredible success of Hamilton as a cultural phenomenon, November 2016.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda talks about the origins of Hamilton with his father and Playbill, July 2015.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda and William Daniels discuss Hamilton and 1776 in Playbill, July 2020.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda discusses the origins of Hamilton with Playbill, September 2009.
- Suzy Evans at American Theatre on how Hamilton found its groove, July 2015.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda talks to NPR about the diversity of Hamilton, June 2020.
- Ed Morales at CNN on the difficulties reconciling Hamilton with the current moment, July 2020.
- Rebecca Onion at Slate criticises Hamilton‘s erasure of people of colour from its narrative, even while including them in its cast, April 2016.
- Ishmael Reed talks to The Nation about the production of The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda, June 2019.
- Jason Frank and Isaac Kramnick at The New York Times on the complexities of the real Alexander Hamilton, June 2016.
- Steven Cook at The Daily Gazette on the removal of statues commemorating the Schuyler family from Albany, New York, June 2020.
- Tyler Sperazza at The Washington Post on the long history of minority (especially black) artists appropriating and rewriting American history, July 2020.
- Wesley Morris, A.O. Scott, Jesse Green, Jon Pareles and Maya Phillips discuss the release of Hamilton at The New York Times, July 2020.
- Helen Shaw and Mark Harris discuss Hamilton at Vulture, July 2020.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda discusses contributing to the soundtrack to Moana with Variety, November 2016.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda talks to Billboard about writing new lyrics for The Little Mermaid, July 2019.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda talks to Entertainment Weekly about writing music for The Force Awakens, December 2015.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda talks to NPR about working on Mary Poppins Returns, December 2018.
- Tom Ewing at Freaky Trigger discusses Shaggy’s Wasn’t Me, September 2015.
- Sean Hutchinson at Inverse on the ubiquity of “winners don’t use drugs” in the early nineties, August 2015.
- Paul Singer at USA Today reflects on the pop cultural impact of Barbara Bush’s “just say no”, March 2016.
- Sarah-Jane Stratford at The Guardian on the Kennedy era as “Camelot”, November 2013.
- Tierney McAfee and Liz McNeil at People on Jackie Kennedy’s invention of the “Camelot” myth, November 2017.
- Ezra Klein at Vox argues that Hamilton‘s policy debates reflect those inside the Democratic Party, November 2015.
- Kevin McFarland at Wired reports on Hillary Clinton’s relationship to Hamilton, July 2016.
- Louis Peitzman at BuzzFeed discusses Immigrants (We Get the Job Done), June 2017.
- Ellie Bate at BuzzFeed reports on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s reaction to criticism of Hamilton, July 2020.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda talks to Rolling Stone about what he cut out from Hamilton, June 2016.
- David Pasternak on YouTube offers an animatic of the deleted Parliamentary Rap Battle #3, January 2017.
- The deleted One Last Ride song from Hamilton, covering the Whiskey Rebellion, January 2017.
- Sam Barsanti at The A.V. Club on the popularity of King George’s songs from Hamilton, July 2020.
- Jonathan Groff talks to Vulture about playing King George III in Hamilton, January 2016.
- Stephanie Elam at CNN on America’s obsession with the British royal family, March 2018.
- Heather Souvaine Horn at The New Republic on America’s fascination with British royals, July 2018.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda talks Entertainment Weekly through The Hamilton Mixtape, November 2016.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda repurposes The Ten Crack Commandments as a pro-Hillary Clinton message, October 2016.
- Alissa Wilkinson at Vox discusses The Hamilton Mixtape, December 2016.
- Ryan Best at FiveThirtyEight looks at the history of erecting Confederate Statues in the United States, July 2020.
- Keisha N. Blain at The Washington Post on the Confederate statues and history, June 2020.
- Gene Demby at Code Switch talks about watching Hamilton with a predominantly white audience, March 2016.
- Sam Kite at Brokelyn on Hamilton‘s appeal to rich, old, white audiences, April 2016.
- Rosaline Bevin at WBUR on the complicated debates happening around Hamilton, July 2020.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda talks to The New York Times about wanting to make Hamilton accessible to students, October 2015.
- Forrest Wickman at Slate on the “Ham4Ham” performances to those outside the theatre, November 2015.
- Richard Morgan at Bloomberg on the unprecedented profit-sharing agreement made with the original cast, September 2016.
- Mark Harris at Vulture on the post-pandemic future of Broadway, April 2020.
- Nancy Isenberg at The Washington Post on the bona fides of Aaron Burr, March 2016.
- Carey Wallace at Time argues in defense of Aaron Burr, April 2016.
- Talib Kweli at Vulture discusses Hamilton as a fusion of hip-hop and theatre, October 2015.
- Grantland offers an oral history of Jay-Z’s It’s Hard-Knock Life, December 2014.
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