I've followed you for a while for New Girl things but I'm totally on board with your Hamilton posts. I currently own a huge crush on Daveed Diggs, tickets to the show in April and don't yet own flights, accommodation or travel insurance. Priorities! Have you seen it? :)
@hannahisabelle -- I AM OBSESSED RIGHT NOW. The music is so good, the story is tight. I listen to one track and I think THIS IS MY FAVE. Then it hits the next jam and I’m still THIS IS MY FAVE. EVERY TRACK IS MY FAVE.
This morning I got teary-eyed listening to Wait For It because of all-caps LONGING and also, restlessness. Wanting to know why things keep going past you but hoping against hope that there’s a design to it. Tomorrow it will be another track.
So jealous! It will all work out with getting here and finding a place to stay-- YOU HAVE TICKETS!!! I have not seen it and don’t expect to unless they film it for PBS or something. I’m a working mom on a budget so any cash I get left over goes to towards BILLS BILLS BILLS and socks and art supplies to make a flag for 2nd grade show and tell. I know there’s the Ham 4 Ham ticket lottery, I know that’s an option, but I got to get home in time to take care of the kids so you know... I’m resigned. It’s not learned helplessness. It’s just life.
I grew up poor in NYC. I never saw jack shit on Broadway but I had tons of original cast albums and I wore those out. One of my first memories of the city after I moved to this country was running with my mom through Grand Central to catch the Metronorth up to CT where she was a live-in housekeeper, running past the posters for Dreamgirls and Cats. Buying the Dreamgirls LP for $1.50 at a school thrift shop. Then Cats. Not being able to go, but having the music. It was enough to know they were there, just a short train ride away with other people enjoying it and talking about it. It’s still enough. I fell in love with the theatre and I’m still in love with it but I’ll never be able to afford it.
We rock the soundtrack at home. My three year-old is partial to King George III’s song. My son is all about LAFAYETTE! (so he joins you in crushin’ on Daveed Diggs). We run past the Hamilton poster, we make the pose.