You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

Okay, let me get one tiny nitpick out of the way. The first roughly 60-90 seconds of the show didn’t 100% work for me, and I’m not sure why. Possibly I’d gotten too used to hearing first lines done by Lin-Manuel Miranda and no one else (from the 2009 White House video). Also there seemed to be an issue with how people were mic’d (or maybe just performance level?) — one person would be fairly quiet and the next person was super loud. For whatever reason, it just felt abrupt and choppy and I was like “Oh! We’re doing this now!” when I feel like I should have been more mesmerized or … more eased into it or … something.

And that is basically the ONLY flaw in this exquisite jewel of a production. And it’s probably not even a flaw, I’m probably just weird. Wait, I’m definitely weird. But this could easily be just my problem.







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This is *such* an incredible show.  I don't know what kind of life it's going to have outside of Broadway, in terms of tours, etc.  There has apparently been movie interest.  The catch with that is that the diversity in the cast is key.  It wouldn't work with an all-white cast or even a largely-white cast, and that's definitely going to be a struggle once a movie studio gets involved.  I hope more people get a chance to see it than just the people who can afford to fly to New York.  It's a game-changer, and Miranda is our new Sondheim.