#HamiltonFilm a thread. The first time I saw #Hamilton on stage at the #PublicTheater I knew absolutely nothing about what I was in for. My college classmate @leslieodomjr had told me briefly over the years that he was working on something with @Lin_Manuel that was unlike
Anything else that had ever been done. The stage is a resoivoir for overhyped products, so I didn’t quite know what to expect other than an explosion of talent based on the cast involved I already knew. The lights lowered, I put my playbill aside and at intermission turned to
My friends, also in the audience that night, @MarkRuffalo and his amazing wife Sunny and said what would become a familiar phrase out of my mouth from that point on, “Hamilton” is the most inspired piece of art I’ve ever seen.” Over the course of the next 2 years, I was blessed
Enough to expierience the sensation 5 times and every time, it felt like a religious expierience. Discovering next level talents for the first time like @DaveedDiggs @Phillipasoo @ARamosofficial @ChrisisSingin @ReneeGoldsberry @JasCephasJones @emmyraver & countless others
Invigorated me as I watched them become household names. The joy of getting to see familiar faces like my close friends @leslieodomjr and #JonathanGroff create arguably two of the most iconic performances of all time in any medium, filled my soul with overflowing pride.
Experiencing the incredible and unique stagecraft and musical enterprise of the one-of-kind musical at the extraordinarily hands of #TommyKail and @LacketyLac was a magic trick I wanted to keep replaying in my dreams.
Seeing some of my closest friends going on this incredible journey like @RoryOMalley and making an already iconic role his own filled me with enormous pride and joy. But perhaps most astounding was the revelation of knowing that in my generation, there was a young man by
The name of @Lin_Manuel who despite already creating one opus in #InTheHeights had created a masterpiece that would be studied, dissected, seen my millions and pave the way for a new generation of artists who would be inspired to follow in his footsteps.
It has been two years since I last saw this defining work of art. But what I keep thinking about is how much more important #Hamilton is in this decisive moment we find ourselves in right now. This experiment we call a Republic remains as fragile and delicate as it
Was in the hands of the men who toiled endlessly two centuries ago to create it for us. As lyrics like “history has its eyes on you” become phrases for the collective zeitgeist, it is more important than ever to remember their meaning and their warning.
I am beyond thrilled that I not only get to share this enormous piece of entertainment with my children tomorrow but that I, along with millions of others can seize each word and lyric as an opportunity to reflect on our own history in the making and “rise up” to the moment we
All find ourselves in now.
