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While some lunatic was reading from Stephen Miller's bar napkin about left wing fascists destroying history into a South Dakota microphone, the rest of us were enjoying the crazily-anticipated, richly-reimagined, insanely-hyped musical version of said history, courtesy of Disney Plus and Lin-Manuel Miranda. As someone who's heard this soundtrack so much on car rides/shared speaker experiences/Zoom "sleepover" monitoring, I've inadvertently memorized it almost in its entirety... I still found this shockingly good, and intensely moving in spots. My MVPs/those served best by the direction:
1) Leslie Odom, Jr. (crazy range, performance and expressiveness-wise-- even more than the considerable range he displays on the cast recording)
2) Renee Elise Goldsberry (that "Helpless" into "Satisfied" is a fucking gut-wrench and a half; she will EGOT one day, mark it down)
3) Daveed Diggs (destroys with charm in both roles; it's nuts how hard he is to peel your eyes from, even in company numbers)
Do you agree? Or are a far-left fascist cadre trying to destroy (artistic depictions of, and the enjoyment thereof) our history?
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