Hamilton (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if Fantastic musical score and libretto. Actors are funny and poignant. Excellent story telling. Saw it 3 times!
Don't see it if If you don't like rap music.
See it if You want to understand what perfection, originality, and innovation in the musical theatre world looks like. Genius everything!
Don't see it if You don't like hip-hop/rap songs, don't like a show where you have so many details at once that you'll need to watch it over and over again.
See it if Even if you’ve seen it on Disney the NY production takes it to the next level. It was amazing.
Don't see it if You don’t like 3 hour shows.
See it if You love history, musicals, and powerful lyrics. Seriously, Hamilton is fantastic.
Don't see it if Brain dead.
See it if you enjoy rap and high energy performances. Amazing production and book.
Don't see it if you don't like musicals.
See it if You love musicals & learning some history. The creativity of the lighting & use of the stage it brilliant. The singing is impressive.
Don't see it if You don’t like musicals or history.
See it if you haven't yet!
Don't see it if even if you think that the concept is strange or you won't like the music, give it a shot. This is a must-see.
See it if you like great musical trends tailored to Broadway...a historical perspective that is beautifully presented...wonderful staging and music.
Don't see it if you hate hip-hop, rap and all offshoots of these musical styles.
Critic Reviews (44)
"It’s the question most asked of theater critics these days: 'Is ‘Hamilton’ really that good?' Yes, 'Hamilton' is that good, and the still youthful Lin-Manuel Miranda can be mentioned in the same sentence with Sondheim and even Cole Porter."
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"'Hamilton' is not just an excellent and rousing musical; it brings something new to the musical theatre, and does it so very compellingly that superlatives are in order. I--and I expect just about all my critical colleagues--would tell you to stop reading right now and get yer tickets, except there aren't likely many to be had for the next year or three."
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"This ambitious, inventive show remains strong across the board: the entertaining, informative and emotionally involving book is filled with moments of humor and pathos, the characters are vividly drawn, the lyrics are extremely clever, the choreography supports the action brilliantly, the cast is uniformly strong and the direction is fluid and assured...The good news is that the newcomers to the cast are generally fine and the production is as sharp as ever."
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"The landmark new musical presents a soulful, electrifying retelling of America’s birth. Its ingenious use of hip-hop, a medium and a culture in many ways born from that oppression, to reclaim American history is nothing short of revolutionary...The musical’s ability to combine the sensational with the theoretical is one of its greatest strengths."
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"There has been nothing on Broadway in the past 20 years to rival the riveting, exhilarating and haunting 'Hamilton,' its vitality and ingenuity fully intact...American musicals have long combined social criticism with unabashed romance, a sharp eye with an open heart. Watching that tradition move boldly forward in 'Hamilton,' a fan can't help but feel a little pride."
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"With the delirious praise swirling around 'Hamilton' since its Public Theater run, there was danger that Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop masterwork would seem anticlimactic - or at least overhyped - at its Broadway premiere. Instead, the show is even more nuanced, more cohesive in individual performances and its more focused finale. Most important, Miranda and director Thomas Kail have fine-tuned it without losing a shiver of its audacity and thrill."
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"The first question critics usually consider when a hit off-Broadway show moves to Broadway is whether it works as well in a larger space. 'Hamilton' does. Emphatically...It’s an event that hasn’t been over-hyped. The show is spectacularly unique, an endlessly clever history lesson that links us to the country’s Founding Fathers in an ingenious and compelling theatrical way...There are probably a half-dozen more things I could rave about, but, essentially, 'Hamilton' is just a really, really terrific show."
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"Miranda’s sweeping, largely sung-through musical about Alexander Hamilton, an orphan who became George Washington’s right-hand man, took on a second life as a master class in musical theater creation...Miranda’s music and lyrics are too textured to be absorbed in one sitting. Turns out, once you’ve gotten over the first wow, there’s plenty more wow to be uncovered."
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