Crooked Table Podcast: ‘Hamilton’ (Crooked Roundtable #1)

We were willing to wait for it. Now the time has finally come to cover the Disney+ release of Hamilton. But how best to commemorate the “ten-dollar Founding Father without a father”? Surely, with the pop cultural impact of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical, we wouldn’t be satisfied with just another regular episode.

Instead, we assembled a panel of epic Hamilfans to blow our listeners away. In our first-ever Crooked Roundtable discussion, Michael Hinman, Candace Kaw, Mandy Lake, and The Lady-Wan talked non-stop about everything Hamilton. We’ll discuss whether Aaron Burr (sir) is really the show’s villain, how Miranda turned the world upside down with an introduction to hip hop history, and why we’re all helpless to stop ourselves from obsessing over this epic musical.

So strap in for a two-part deep dive into how Miranda used rhyme and American history to tell a moving tale of legacy and created a phenomenon in Hamilton.

SYNOPSIS

Filmed from the Richard Rodgers Theater in New York, the original Broadway production of the award-winning musical tells the story of Alexander Hamilton (Lin-Manuel Miranda) — first secretary of the U.S. treasury — blending hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and Broadway styles.