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    'Hamilton' Comes Home, Just In Time For The Fourth Of July

    The very good movie version of Hamilton, filmed with the original cast at the height of the show's popularity, will perk up faithful cast album fans — and new viewers, too.
    by Linda Holmes Jun 30, 2020 7 minutes
    Leslie Odom, Jr. originated the role of Aaron Burr on Broadway in <em>Hamilton</em>. Like the rest of the original cast, he's now available to watch at home in the film, now on Disney .

    We committed the unpardonable crime of being mavericks who were successful, and everybody hated us. It would've been fine if we'd been just hacks and made a lot of money, that's okay. Or to be really original and starve, that's okay. But it's not okay to do both, and they didn't forgive us.

    That's what Stephen Sondheim says in the 2016 documentary The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could've Happened. He's speaking about the glee and meanness in the press and elsewhere over the commercial failure and quick closure of the 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along, which he created with producer and director Hal Prince after the successes they'd had with Follies and especially Sweeney Todd. Sondheim isn't saying that's why people didn't like the show; he's saying that's why they took such pleasure in not liking it.

    Talking about now can, if Sondheim is right, provoke a similar reaction. The film version of that arrives on Disney+ on Friday is a film of the stage musical, assembled from three days of performances when the show was at its hottest, in June of 2016, just before the original cast began to leave. was a juggernaut by

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