What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

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aktigerlily:

character descriptions from the Hamilton casting call

I’m pretty sure these casting calls have changed how I write character descriptions for the rest of time.

This has nailed down something I already knew about @linmanuel and Hamilton: if you can recognize the Broadway influences but not the rap/hip-hop influences, you have at best half the background you need to appreciate what’s going on.

Listening to Hamilton has made me realise that, in terms of musical effect, the only real difference between recitative and rap is one of culturally coded perception. By which I mean: yes, we’re talking about two very rich and distinctive musical traditions, but in terms of what they actually boil down to, which is a rhythmic, poetic delivery closer to speech than singing, you’d be hard-pressed to sensibly argue that the one is somehow more “appropriate” to musical theatre than the other.

Or I mean, you could make that argument, but not without being literally racist.   

(Source: nnellowdrama, via captainlordauditor)

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