Jun
30
11:00pm
Profs & Pints Online: Hamilton’s History Remix
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Profs and Pints Online presents: “Hamilton’s History Remix,” a critical look at the musical and the people and events it depicts, with Richard Bell, associate professor of history at the University of Maryland.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony-winning musical has sold out theatres throughout the nation and is scheduled to shown nationally on Disney Plus on July 3rd. Many of us have the triple-platinum cast album playing on repeat. Its crafty lyrics, hip-hop tunes, and big, bold story have even rejuvenated interest in the real lives and true histories that Hamilton: the Musical puts center stage.
Join Richard Bell, a favorite of Profs and Pints audiences, for an interactive online talk offering a fascinating, critical look at the history underlying the musical. He’ll explore the Hamilton phenomenon to reveal what its success tells us about the marriage of history and show business.
We’ll learn what this amazing musical got right and got wrong about Alexander Hamilton, the American Revolution, and the birth of the United States, and why that matters. We’ll examine some of the choices Hamilton’s creators made to simplify, dramatize, and humanize the complicated events and stories on which the show is based.
We will also talk about Hamilton’s cultural impact. What does its runaway success reveal about the stories we tell each other about who we are and about the nation we made?
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