"Hamilton" creators on crafting a revolutionary musical: Full interview
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ธ.ค. 2018
- The musical "Hamilton" joined a prestigious group of artists recently celebrated for their contributions to American culture at the Kennedy Center Honors. Director Thomas Kail, choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, music director Alex Lacamoire, and writer-lyricist-actor Lin-Manuel Miranda sit down for an extended interview with “CBS This Morning” co-host John Dickerson.
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There's nothing sexier than listening to five articulate men with broad vocabularies, talking about history, theater, sociology and music! This was a GREAT interview.
Yesssss
Lol yeah 😂
I know right?
Great comment
Minds "at work"
Alex: "We were just happy to be in that room.."
*Me: You mean the room where it happened?*
thats literally what I thought
Nice!
Geniuses think alike
that's what i thought lol
Everytime they said "The room-" I immediately thought of that
Are we not mentioning that they look like two sets of twins?
Tina Venturini oooh crap I see it! 😂
Good eye! Now I can't unsee it!
I literally just laughed out loud lol
😂😂😂😂😂
They say that married people start to look like each other after they've been together a long time.
The Cabinet is like a creative marriage and they have been together a long time already...
It would've been so easy for the Kennedy Center to just award Lin, but they recognized how the collaboration between the four is what made Hamilton a masterpiece. This interview is such a great lesson in that it takes a village, so if you're struggling creatively are artistically, meeting the right collaborator can make all the difference.
lin probably would make sure they got credit too. he always does :)
Totally agree. I believe that the story itself is great, but the four made this musical a masterpiece.
The Kennedy Center probably listened to Lin's demo tapes and realised he had a lot of help!... th-cam.com/video/YHuNmecqs4E/w-d-xo.html
WOW. needed to hear this today. thank you. you are SO, so right on.
The founding fathers of a masterpiece
No doubt😁
Well said
Purr bestie
Angelica was right. Men with minds at work are so much more intriguing
They admire each other. That's what makes this work.
Even in this interview you can see how much they are a well-oiled machine. They listen when one of them is speaking. It's like their brains are tuned in to each other, even just to find the next sentence that's going to be spoken to answer the question. Most interviews are like a back and forth, question and answer, sort of set up but this feels like a genuine conversation, like we're all just sitting down and chatting about how incredible this phenomena we call Hamilton has been and will forever be. Seeing them all flow like this, it's no wonder how this musical became what it is. They are all so skilled and work so well together, I genuinely hope they collaborate on more projects in the future. They are the dream team.
So true ! A wonderful conversation to witness.
RAISE OUR GLASS TO THEATER
SOMETHING THEY CAN NEVER TAKE AWAY
NO MATTER WHAT THEY TELL YOU
RAISE OUR GLASS TO THE FOUR OF THEM
TOMORROW THERE'LL BE MORE OF THEM
TELLING THEIR STORY OF THAT NIGHT
THE STORY OF THAT NIGHT
Yuss!
🍻🍻🍻
du du dooOoO DU THERES NOTHIN RICH FOLKS LOVE MORE
Who's gonna tell them...
Thank you CBS for posting this full interview. The sound bites and 2 minute interviews that are so popular these days don't come close to the depth and quality of these extended conversations.
I love the way Thomas Kail even "directs" the interview. He is constantly shaping the individual narratives into a more cohesive message throughout this interview.
Right? It’s really wonderful to see the inner workings of such stellar teamwork in action!
anyone noticed how well spoken they all are?
It is so beautiful
One of the best and smartest interviews I’ve ever seen. Inclusive, unique, informed questions which made its subjects think, but showed the synergy there. They got so comfortable as time went on that they jump in with an observation prompted by an answer not heard before. Kudos-I thoroughly enjoyed it all.
I am so obsessed with this musical. I find a new favorite song each time I listen.
Hamilton has a FANTASTIC soundtrack kudos to all these guys. However, the lighting in Hamilton REALLY helps with telling this story. I feel like that is one of the things of this show really gets overlooked in some places.
Benjamin Martis I'm so glad to hear someone else point that out. I just saw the show for the first time in Puerto Rico and I came in totally blind (the only song I'd heard/seen before was the opening number) and I was BLOWN AWAY by the lighting design for the show. It does such an excellent job at visually highlighting all the elements of the story. Personally, I simply hadn't experienced a show where lighting was such an integral part in the storytelling. It just made every moment on stage into a beautifully composed still image.
Benjamin Martis EXACTLY!
The KEY GRIP too!!
Well the reason for it being overlooked is that only a small percentage of the people who listened to the music got to actually see it live. Hopefully it'll get more appreciated in 2021 when the recording comes out
Sad to come across this comment when they announced today that the lighting director passed today. Makes you appreciate it even more.
They are such dads. I love it.
"A show powered by joy"
Why did that make me tear up??
Joy to make it?
I like how everyone is all dressed up and then there's Lin in a sweater and jeans
Classic Lin
Tommy’s vocab choices are on point
Oh I know. I was swooning.
Can they teach a lesson on respect and collaboration to Congress?! 🥰I’m in awe and so much more in love with Hamilton then I already was... didn’t think it could be possible!! So well deserved! Nice guys don’t always finish last! Great role models for everyone these days!!
It’s impossible to compromise with radical corporate owned Right-wingers. A fundamental issue of corruption and propaganda within the US
Creative minds united together to produce a masterpiece!
I was drawn in with the fact that it’s just them in suits...
*And then we have Lin, in a sweater and jeans*
It’s the Lin thing to do
These four are incredible... you can just see the respect and admiration they feel for one another as they listen to each other! It is absolutely beautiful to watch four incredible minds coming together!
“It was a wonderful opportunity to be in that room.. we were just happy to be in that room...”
*I WANNA BE IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS. THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS.*
They can't even help it.
Best interview in a long time. Thanks for letting the men riff off each other and allow us to follow the threads of their genius.
What a terrific, intelligent interview. Just like the show.
This interview was genius showing us geniuses and how it was created! Absolutely brilliant! 💥💥
This is one of the best interviews I watched in a long time. It could have gone on for an hr
Love this interview so much. He is so good at asking each of them great and in depth questions. And also, I really love how these four aren't fatigued of talking about Hamilton after all these years. They still have so much to say and so much pride for it and it makes me so happy.
This is fascinating...this really is the dream team! How wonderful to see this work of genius being honored and these talented artists remain so down to earth, positive and supportive. Absolutely deserved for all of them!
24:54
There's a movie version of in the heights coming out ??? This deserves its own episode
Even better: Anthony Ramos is supposed to play Usnavi
Laycie Spoon in the heights?
I love the part around 21:00 where they're talking about the sum of their experiences. I still haven't seen the show and have only listened to the soundtrack (about a dozen times so far) but when Hamilton says "Sit down, John!" I squealed with delight because that's from 1776 - I read the screenplay in the mid-70's and got the album (showing my age) just a bit later and pretty much wore it out. I wager I'll do the same to the Hamilton DVD when I get my hands on it. So many little "Easter eggs" in this show - so much fun to find them!
I’m still shook that I saw Hamilton in New York it’s been a year and it was just on luck. It’s still my favorite experience ever and it’s crazy that these people made that happen.
Did you win the ticket lottery?
Chloe Butler yes 3 times actually. But I was only able to go the one time because of work.
That Thespian Person 97 lol, I enter the lottery daily and continue telling myself the lie that I have the time or means to fly halfway across the country
Chloe Butler oh when I won I skipped school got the cheapest flight to New York and went 😂 I won London the other two times I can’t drop everything as easily for that tho
You wear those jeans, Lin. 😂👌
And here we are 2 years later, and Hamilton is on Disney+
Wow, this interview was great! I love learning about what goes on behind the scenes of a masterpiece like Hamilton. I also love that each persons face lights up and smiles when they’re discussing their work/passion.
So insightful to hear that Andy was intimidated in choreographing Hamilton's duel monologue, I think it was one of the most beautiful and striking pieces of choreography in the whole show. This was a fantastic interview!
It's so lovely to hear the thoughts of these three amazing men and to watch how much respect, love and admiration they feel for each other.
I love everything about Hamilton
The Beatles of theater!
OMG!! I completely thought that when I was watching this interview.
I feel like through this interview (and many others, of course, but this one in general) you really get the sense of the fact that they didn't think this was going to be as big as it got. Nowhere NEAR as big as it got. But in the deepest corner of their mind they always knew. They always knew it was going to be great, going to be different, going to be something that helped shape a generation. But this couldn't have come about in any other way. It had to be this way, and this way was the perfect way it came. And I think that thought is beautiful.
"It had to be this way, and this way was the perfect way it came."
It had to be this way.
What a lovely moment, thank you for sharing this with us.
I love the fact that Alex and the other two are dressed in smart clothing, very dapper
Then there's Lin
When Lin said "it's like a marriage..." all I could of was "we fight like a marriage.." from Cheering For Me Now
Hannah Vest Same here! 😊
Their mutual respect is evident and inspiring! I love the living organism analogy. Growing, evolving, authentic.
Thank you for this. It was truly insightful to learn about how the show came about and the importance of collaboration.
Also, specifically in 32:00 -- it's incredibly refreshing to think that wonderfully talented people can be this loose and human and down to earth.
so smart, so talented, so fresh, so adorable
After the book, you can see God orchestrating many moments coming together even with actors. They all worked hard and had different challenges to the finished project. I actually love that.
it works because they feed off of each other's strengths
Lin and Alex : It was just a great experience to be in that room.
Thomas and Andy : I wanna be in the room where it happens..
This is an excellent interview. I love the respect and honor they have for one another. I completely relate to Alex talking about just wanting to hang out with those guys and contribute what he could to the show- it’s just so special that you don’t care about having “skin in the game” for personal glory; you just want to see the thing made excellently! Bravo, gentlemen!
You can literally see that they as a collective group are just on fire with each other 🙌🏾🙌🏾 they keep finishing each other’s sentences and bouncing off of each other it’s so great 🔥
Just re-watching this. It truly is one of the most giftedly crafted and engaging interview ever. The thoughtful, insightful questions, and the great listening skills allow the men to share fascinating answers! Thank you!!
This is an absolutely BRILLIANT interview! I loved every minute of it. Thank you, CBS, for sharing it in its entirety!! 🤗🙌🏼
I'm so glad the comments attached to this video are positive and I agree with all of them. In fact, they make me feel an obligation to say something profound, something meaningful but instead, I'll just say, "That's the best collection of After-40-Man-Hair I've ever seen!!!!"
They look to me like they are in their mid-thirties. Of course, I am 74.
@@sudy1418 They do look young but I know at least two of them were in their 40's when this interview took place. Alex Lacamoire and I were both born in 1975 and Andy Blankenbuehler did Fosse with my partner, Eugene Fleming, so I know he's a little older than I am.
Man, I learned so much in this video. It's amazing how they know exactly what the other is talking about and expounding it more without making it harder to understand. Founders of masterpiece. Golden squad
Inspired by Ratatouille?! I knew there’s a reason these guys are great! 😀
Man, these men are just so amazing 😆❤️and I’m sorry I know I comment it all the time but Lin’s staring when everyone else is talking is just so amazing
Terrific interview. Each man was actually given the opportunity to expand his thoughts. (Many interviewers talk too much.) These four men trust, respect, and listen to one another - that’s why this collaboration was so successful. As the music director said, “Every designer brought their A game.” Thank you for posting this.
This was a joy to watch. 🥰
This is truly a fantastic interview! I am so honored that I got to see this show on tour. Seeing this interview inspired me and to hear you all talk about it is simply a joy. Thank you all for this great work!
36:36 Sometimes maybe is all you need
That's the most motivational thing I've heard in a while. Somebody giving you a chance can be all you need to get your foot in the door.
Amazing interview! I love that he includes all of them, equally… Didn’t just dote upon Lin and treat the rest as background contributors. Bravo
"There's something to be gained and some beauty to be seen from every aspect"
Thanks for the wisdom 🌻
They are the Beatles of Broadway. The new Fab Four.
Lin is such a chill dude.... bro he is the only one out of four people not wearing a suit. I luv him
Thanks for bringing us in the room where it happened.
I've had the opportunity to watch this movie or play twice and every time I watched it it was more and more exciting. It seemed like it documented history but then it also made you wanna go out every search history more and understand what our forefathers really were thinking and how they develop this country. I thought this rendition was superbes I can't believe that Disney was kind enough to put this on live streaming. I can't get enough of it . The songs blew me away, they seem to come together with ease. And I literally felt the participants were really reliving the parts as if it was about to them.
Definitely worth the watch, it's worth your time of 2 and a 1/2 hours, I can't get enough like I said.
Lin in a sweater!!
That was a night where so many had ear to ear grins going on and were too wrapped up in enjoying things to even try to deal with their face! I just thought they were all really enjoying themselves!
This was a great interview!
Brilliantly done interview! Thank you.
Just a joy to listen to 4 thoughtful and kind men.
This was the best of the best. I could listen to such brilliance all day. Kudos to you all.
These four men are legends,each one of them made Hamilton what it is today.But to me,Lin and Alex are the best,not because they are better at their jobs or something like that.But because they were part of the creation of the songs.Lin with his amazing hability to write,rhyme and create really touching and smart lyrics and Alex being the incredible musician creating beautiful and memorable melodies with all that instruments together.I love all of them because they brought Hamilton out of Lin's head😅But these two are really what i personal appreciate in art because i want to do something like that one day.They're such in inspiration to me.
Absolutely inspiring. Thank you.
So inspiring to listen and watch these heartfelt passionate artists sharing intelligence, talent, collaboration and utter respect! Brilliant!
I hope that I be one day in the room where it happens, untill that moment I listen to the soundtracks (with voice and the instrumental album) to discover every single beat and secret of the show, also I have the source metarial, the book by Ron chernow. I've never seen the show but I'll consider myself a huge fan, if not a huge Lin-Manuel Miranda fan. he's really the greatest writer of the 21st century AKA the new Shakespeare
When Alex talked about the American pride that welled up in him, I can relate to that so much. Watching this musical makes me realize just how incredible America's history is, and what a unique and special thing we have here. It's worth fighting for. Makes me wish we had leaders like that today.
18:01 i feel so bad i was that kid in 2015/16 when it was actually a smash hit. Sorry guys, im in the fandom now
"In the fandom" as in I love it.
What a great discussion. Not everyone would understand or relate to the amount of passion in this interview.
So inspiring! I am going to have my drama students watch this interview.
Great idea!
So refreshing to be a fly on the wall listening to this great collaborative
Q & A first off I got the Director Thomas Kail and Alex the Sound Composor mixed up ... What a Handsome bunch .... What Thomas said describes Hamilton's success pulled the painting off the wall into the present day and made them Human again ..although Hamilton made them really cool too!
Love this interview.
These four dudes though...
Hearing them talk about Lin's demos is amazing. Wow!!! :D Gotta get me some frenz like dis
Everybody in suits and fancy things. Then , it’s Lin with jeans . That’s kin everybody ...
Really inspired by your collaborative teamwork
Great interviews! Lin Manuel Miranda is a prodigy! My respects to all the artists in this production. Good vibes always, from NYC!
Can they just be put in charge of the world? They are intensely wonderful smart and talented....
19:19 "There are things that you can't see from the eye of the hurricane" I see what you did there Lin - very subtle
This interviewer is amazing!
I really think it says something great about Lin that he uses "married" to mean being lifelong collaborators making decisions together.
People use the "fighting like an old married couple" idea so much, I dont think I've ever heard someone describe something as being like a marriage in the sense of what a successful marriage should actually be. What a breath of fresh air he is.
Amazing.
*shooketh*
They’re also the creators of In The Heights..❤️❤️
John, I'm wondering about the length of this interview....39 minutes+ minutes...Is this a standard way of doing interviews for "This Morning?".....condense the best from a long interview? Do you tell your interviewees ..."ok...we need you for an hour " These guys must of had time restraints no? .What a treat to experience this long form....Thanks you for posting
Great interview.
These guys are gold! Genius and amazing!
i love andy so much