I am feeling extremely grateful and fortunate that Miles and I got to see Hamilton on Broadway, and with this cast, led by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Exuberant, inspiring, exciting as hell.
I feel like we have been a part of something big, and unforgettable. A moment in time never to be repeated in the same way, captured in our minds and hearts and our shared experience of that night.
Miles whispered to me after three or four songs "My mouth is moving involuntarily!" It can't be helped!
The last time I was an uber fan was in the summer of 1994 when Melisa Lasell, Laurie Bramel and I, with a rotation of other Chico State friends, obsessed over Prince's newly released Purple Rain album. That winter, I was tasked to get 4 tickets to the concert and Judy Stalker and I spent the night outside Record Factory in Walnut Creek. Sometimes you just have to do it! That night was eventful and fun, and that concert remains the most memorable one of my life, and all the more precious in my memory now with Prince's early death. I feel extremely grateful and fortunate that I saw him during the Purple Rain tour, in all his strutting, sexy, purple glory.
Hamilton: the show, the music, the choreography is so layered and active, of course, that immediately I wished I could see it again. And again! To see how they do it, to hear the songs live and hear the audience fill the great room with applause and cheers after every number.
It would be enough. This will have to be enough.
(Until it comes to San Francisco!)
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