Hamilton - Victoria Palace Theatre

^ LOL Exactly! Far from hate. We're not talking Sheridan Smith, snutte
The entire cast is absolutely brilliant, but Philippa and the character I find slightly less interesting than the others. I hardly listen to Burn and I think it's the least interesting song in the show.

Whoa, definitely don't hate her. I can easily think of actors in modern theatre who are proactively bad and she most certainly is not. But in a musical that runs over with riches she has always struck me as a tad underwhelming, both on the OCR and when I actually saw it. I'm open to the possibility that it's just the way Eliza is written, but pushing me the other way is the fact that I love "Helpless" and actually like "Burn" as songs but have never fully warmed up to Philippa's performances of them.

I think you chose the wrong word, but ok, you do you!

Personally I struggled to sympathise with Eliza until the latter part of the show, a lot of her characterisation is initially shown through other people talking about her instead of her own words. It doesn't help that her first solo (ish) number is entirely about being "helpless" when she first meets the male protagonist. Rolling my eyes a bit about that.

Jeez it was just an innocent comment, wasn't trying to attack anyone!

Youve not read much of this thread if thats the impression youve got, even from people whove seen it

That's probably because there are no proper songs in the show, just some affected posturing and talking in a dramatic way, preferably every sentence a bit higher than the one before and in an overly dramatic voice that sounds like the speaker is about to cry. And of course the cool look and pose at the end of a "song" is important, preferably with a head flip on the final chord. That would not work well on radio.

Strange, it works brilliantly when I listen to it.

Is it double platinum? it just earned platinum in May...

Platinum is still impressive and quite a short amount of time as well, Wicked took years to get to platinum

Although the vast majority of modern cast recordings still don't come close.

I think their social media activation is commendable, but generally speaking they have other channels that have worked greatly in their favor. The fact that the President of the United States visited twice, Michelle Obama calling it the best work of art she's seen, a celebrity appearance just about every single night especially with Beyonce-pretty much the most famous entertainer alive today-loving it, the fact that its cast are on US TV just about every other night..

I think the bottom line is, you can have all these avenues and endorsements, but at the end of the day, your product needs to live up to its promise, and the product here is very very good and has huge cross-over strength. Broadway is very niche and has its fans, but it was never taken seriously and legit by the non-Broadway supporting public (queue in JK Rowling's recent words), let alone endorsed by a side of the music industry (rap, hiphop) that has the most mass appeal in the world which also happens to be the anti-thesis of the Broadway sound.