You want to catch the film version of the incredibly popular musical "Hamilton" this weekend when it premieres July 3 on the Disney Plus network (at 3:01 a.m. for fanatics).
Before you do, let's make sure you don't throw away your shot.
1. Get the means. Today, right now, this instant: Put down your cup of coffee and make sure you're set up to stream Disney Plus on your TV. The "so simple" descriptions of how to stream Disney Plus — which is not carried by Xfinity — are disingenuous. This can be more like climbing a tree than falling off a log. (See the sidebar for details.)
Today is the day to do it. Businesses may be closed or crowded July 3, which is considered the holiday for some companies, including the Naples Daily News.
2. Get the lyrics. Unless you can sing every word of every song, you'll still learn something by checking out the lyrics. Here's where to find all 46 numbers in "Hamilton" online: allmusicals.com/h/hamilton
3. Get the food. If you want to pay tribute with Revolutionary War-era fare, pass around a plate of fried chicken hearts or sweetbreads. And polish it off with a mug of madeira. (If you do, send us a photo so we can marvel at your fortitude.)
This is a two-hour, 40-minute musical, including intermission. Plan those munchies and beverages ahead for ways to serve them safely to those in the room where it happens. That means bowls with covers, scoops for chips and popcorn, small plates and hand sanitizer close by.
4. Appreciate seeing the musical, not a movie. The film that airs 3:01 a.m. EDT July 3 and through the weekend on Disney Plus network was taken nearly straight from Broadway. It's not a separate film production.
Gleaned from two nights of the live musical with the original cast, it is enhanced with separately shot footage of 13 songs for better camera angles. The live sound was created with a battery of 100 microphones arranged around the theater, according to a New York Times advance on the film.
You're getting the closest thing to an evening at the production that won a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for drama; a record-breaking 16 Tony nominations, acing 11 of them; and eight Drama Desk Awards.
5. Know what you're getting, and not
"Hamilton" may be the talk-iest musical to date. Leah Libresco, writing for FiveThirtyEight, a web-based stats cruncher, found it packs in 20,520 words. That's around three times Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera," at 6,789; and the tongue-twister Gilbert-and-Sullivan classic, "Pirates of Penzance," with 5,962. All the more reason to read those lyrics.
There's one change to the film version. Two of three graphic words apparently will be muffled for family viewing purposes. A request to Disney Plus communications office has not received a reply to date as to what they are.
But we believe one of the words sounds much like " 'nuther trucker."
How we 'Ham' in Southwest Florida
The concept and the soundtrack of "Hamilton" so impressed Samanta Pomier Jofre, 19, that she changed her major at the University of Virginia to history.
But she has never seen the musical.
The Naples High graduate was out of town when the celebrated American Revolution musical came here. So this is a banner weekend for Jofre.
"COVID-19 can’t stop me from buying Disney Plus and ‘gently' persuading my parents to join me in gleefully singing all of the lyrics," she wrote in an email.
She is by far the most engaged of those Neapolitans who responded to a Daily News question of how they would be watching the musical. Jofre said in an interview she has been "trying to make my parents more comfortable with the format by playing the music in the car."
She's also planning to have lyrics on hand should they accede to her hopes for a sing-along.
Jofre has become such a student of the American Revolution, in fact, that she won a work-study student researcher position from UVA for a continuing project, The Washington Papers. Her work includes translating Revolutionary-era diaries and letters to and from the Marquis de Lafayette, the French military leader who fought for the Americans.
"I don’t have the fashionable powdered wigs of the era nor the benefit of sharing this experience with my fellow Hamiltonians in person. But I do have a subscription, a comfortable couch, a TV and two unsuspecting parents," she wrote about her viewing plans.
"The point is: I want to be in the room where it happens."
Billie Dalesio Faccinto of Naples also missed seeing "Hamilton" until now. She'll watch, she said, but the coronavirus will keep her initiation intimate: "With all that's going on, my daughter will come over. That's it."
Neapolitan Rosemary Ufheil decided to transport herself not just to the 18th century, but to one of her favorite theater spots: "While watching I will be enjoying a glass of wine and pretending I am at the Artis," she wrote, referred to performance venue Artis—Naples.
Charles Valentine, also of Naples, has seen "Hamilton" before, "But truthfully, I didn't get all of it. I got in over my head, I think," he said. He thought perhaps the film version would help him understand it better: "My grandaughter, who's 16, has seen it four times."
Even better, he added: She and his daughter will know how to set up the Valentine household's TV to stream it.
Harriet Howard Heithaus covers arts and entertainment for the Naples Daily News/naplesnews.com. Reach her at 239-213-6091.
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