Hamilton: An American Musical [Original Broadway Cast Recording] [4 LP Box Set]

Hamilton: An American Musical [Original Broadway Cast Recording] [4 LP Box Set]

by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Hamilton: An American Musical [Original Broadway Cast Recording] [4 LP Box Set]

Hamilton: An American Musical [Original Broadway Cast Recording] [4 LP Box Set]

by Lin-Manuel Miranda

Vinyl LP(Long Playing Record)

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Overview

Inspired by the Ron Chernow biography, Hamilton: An American Musical is an innovative, hip-hop-charged stage musical about U.S. founding father Alexander Hamilton. That's right, hip-hop (and ethnically diverse casting) meet the 18th century. Its creator, book writer, composer-lyricist, and lead actor, Lin-Manuel Miranda, had his Broadway breakthrough in 2008 with In the Heights, a musical about the Latino-American Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights that also incorporated rap music into its rambunctious songbook. Miranda won a Tony and a Grammy for his songwriting for the Best Musical winner. With Hamilton, he draws on rap, contemporary R&B, pop, and classic show tunes for a dynamic style that isn't just ambitious but accessible and catchy -- and there's plenty of conventional melody. The well-over-two-hour production does a good job of balancing tone and styles, so for those who find rap, or rather theater balladry, something to be endured, relief is just around the corner. Recorded with care over several days instead of the usual single recording session, and with production oversight by Questlove and Black Thought of the Roots, the cast recording opens with alternately rapped and sung exposition on "Alexander Hamilton." The concept of rapping historical figures can take some adjusting to, but it's the decidedly non-period R&B/21st century pop-flavored music and modern vernacular (with explicit language) in the distant setting that takes some suspension of disbelief. Once that happens, and the listener is confronted with the device quickly and impressively, it's smooth sailing. The rhythm and wordplays are at such high levels -- lyrics are often delivered rapid-fire with interruptions occurring seamlessly in rhyme and in tempo -- it's hard not to be won over pretty much from the start, especially with lyrics like the sung political advice, "Talk less, smile more/Don't let them know what you're against or for" and meticulous, smile-inducing rap rhymes ("skill with the quill," etc.). Hamilton's verbosity is a running joke in the show, which comes to an apex in the "Cabinet Battles," exercises in rhetorical grandiloquence executed via a rap smackdown between Hamilton (Miranda) and, among others, Thomas Jefferson (Daveed Diggs). Another standout is the tender pop ballad "Wait for It" by Leslie Odom, Jr. (as Aaron Burr) and the cast. If there's a significant knock on the show, it's that there's so much information communicated in the songs -- facts, reading of documents, summaries of events -- it would certainly be tedious if not accompanied by an unusually entertaining presentation, and some will decide that it still is. However, given the musical's fairly radical rendering and the limited access to the show -- any Broadway show -- this recording seems a vital one, and time will tell if the musical is a watershed in big-budget musical theater. ~ Marcy Donelson

Product Details

Release Date: 04/15/2016
Label: Atlantic
UPC: 0075678666919
Rank: 2768

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Alexander Hamilton
  2. Aaron Burr, Sir
  3. My Shot
  4. The Story of Tonight
  5. The Schuyler Sisters
  6. Farmer Refuted
  7. You'll Be Back
  8. Right Hand Man
  9. A Winter's Ball
  10. Helpless
  11. Satisfied
  12. The Story of Tonight (Reprise)
  13. Wait for It
  14. Stay Alive
  15. Ten Duel Commandments
  16. Meet Me Inside
  17. That Would Be Enough
  18. Guns and Ships
  19. History Has Its Eyes on You
  20. Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)
  21. What Comes Next?
  22. Dear Theodosia
  23. Non-Stop

Disc 2

  1. What'd I Miss
  2. Cabinet Battle #1
  3. Take a Break
  4. Say No to This
  5. The Room Where It Happens
  6. Schuyler Defeated
  7. Cabinet Battle #2
  8. Washington on Your Side
  9. One Last Time
  10. I Know Him
  11. The Adams Administration
  12. We Know
  13. Hurricane
  14. The Reynolds Pamphlet
  15. Burn
  16. Blow Us All Away
  17. Stay Alive (Reprise)
  18. It's Quiet Uptown
  19. The Election of 1800
  20. Your Obedient Servant
  21. Best of Wives and Best of Women
  22. The World Was Wide Enough
  23. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lin-Manuel Miranda   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Renee Elise Goldsberry   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Jonathan Groff   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Christopher Jackson   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Leslie Odom, Jr.   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Ephraim Sykes   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Thayne Jasperson   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Ariana DeBose   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Sasha Hutchings   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Jon Rua   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Okieriete Onaodowan   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Daveed Diggs   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Anthony Ramos   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Jasmine Cephas-Jones   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Phillipa Soo   Primary Artist,Vocals,Lead Vocals
Sydney James Harcourt   Primary Artist,Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Questlove   Percussion
Alex Lacamoire   Conductor,Keyboards,Music Direction
James Harcourt   Vocals
Robin Macatangay   Banjo,Guitar
Anja Wood   Cello
Richard Hammond   Bass,Keyboards,Keyboards,Bass (Vocal)
Laura Sherman   Harp,Cello
Nevin Steinberg   Sound Effects
Neil Haskell   Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Seth Stewart   Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Randy Cohen   Synthesizer
Thomas Kail   Director
Ahmir Thompson   Percussion
Erin Benim Mayland   Violin
Betsy Struxness   Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Philippa Soo   Vocals
Kurt Crowley   Keyboards,Music Direction
Alysha Deslorieux   Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Stephanie Klemons   Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Mario Gotoh   Viola,Violin
Benny Reiner   Keyboards,Percussion
Andres Forero   Drums
Andrew Chappele   Vocals
Austin Smith   Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Carleigh Bettiol   Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Emmy Raver-Lampman   Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Javier Munoz   Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Morgan Marcell   Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Voltaire Wade-Greene   Vocals,Vocal Ensemble
Andrew Chappelle   Vocal Ensemble
Hamilton Cast Ensemble   Choir/Chorus,Vocal Ensemble

Technical Credits

Tariq Trotter   Producer,Executive Producer
Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones   General Manager
Sylvia Robinson   Text,Original Material
James Mtume   Text,Original Material
Duke Bootee   Original Material
Roger Troutman   Original Material
Sean Combs   Text,Original Material
Khary Kimani Turner   Text,Original Material
Melvin Glover   Text,Original Material
Kasseem Dean   Text,Original Material
Craig Kallman   Associate Producer
Questlove   Producer
Michael Aarons   Music Coordinator
Ron Robinson   Assistant Engineer
Tim Latham   Mixing
Kejuan Muchita   Text,Original Material
Alex Lacamoire   Arranger,Producer,Orchestration
Earl Simmons   Text,Original Material
Jason Robert Brown   Composer,Lyricist,Original Material
Oscar Hammerstein II   Lyricist
Jean-Claude Olivier   Text,Original Material
Richard Rodgers   Original Material
Pete Ganbarg   A&R
The Notorious B.I.G.   Original Material
Robin Macatangay   Synthesizer Programming
Tom Coyne   Mastering
Arthur Sullivan   Text,Original Material
William Schwenck Gilbert   Text,Original Material
Christopher Wallace   Text
Howell Binkley   Lighting Design
Chris Martin   Original Material
Emily Grishman   Music Copyist
Jeremy King   Synthesizer Programming,Synthesizer Programming
Bill Sherman   Producer
Katharine Edmonds   Music Copyist
Riggs Morales   Associate Producer
Michael Keller   Music Coordinator
Christopher Martin   Text
Oskar Eustis   Artistic Director
Jill Dell'Abate   Production Manager
Patrick Willingham   Executive Director
Andy Blankenbuehler   Choreographer
Deborah Mannis-Gardner   Music Clearance
Craig Rosen   A&R
Paul Tazewell   Costume Design
Sean Patrick Flahaven   Associate Producer
Edward Fletcher   Text
Nevin Steinberg   Effects,Sound Design
Tyler Hartman   Assistant Engineer
Derik Lee   Engineer
Randy Cohen   Drum Programming
Thomas Kail   Associate Producer
J. Philip Bassett   Production Stage Manager
Lin-Manuel Miranda   Book,Arranger,Composer,Lyricist,Producer,Executive Producer
Brig Berney   Company Manager
Clifton Nathaniel Chase   Text,Original Material
Ahmir Thompson   Executive Producer
Ebonie Smith   Assistant Engineer
Madeline Myers   Music Assistant
Osten Harvey   Original Material
Will Wells   Drum Samples,Loop Editing
Kurt Crowley   Associate Director
Sarah Tudzin   Engineer
David Korins   Scenic Design
Charles G. LaPointe   Hair Stylist,Wig Designer
Bethany Knox   Casting
Diane Vadnal   Marketing
Josephine Bearden   Music Assistant
Khiyon Hursey   Music Assistant
Albert Johnson   Text,Original Material
Hamilton Cast Ensemble   End Chorus
Taylor J. Williams   Synthesizer Programming
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