Will please fans of the musical

Watching it now but looking at the scores with only 7 having taken the time to rate it with 3 people giving it 9 and 10 and being this is IMDB 4 people decided to give it a 1.

One reason I don't decide to watch a program based off the score it has collected. Haters will hate.

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Well worth the time to watch it. Focus was on how the idea for the songs and show got started with an almost equal dose of history of Alexander Hamilton and others with some small bits from the play itself.

Enough to generate interest in the show for sure but I think even more so to generate more interest in Alexander Hamilton, the time period involved, and how it still relates to us today in the present.

I have not seen the show but it is on my wish list but I don't think there was anything shown that is going to ruin the experience of seeing it.

We saw Hamilton this summer, after our daughters spent months playing and singing along with the soundtrack for months, and I was "blown away" by the play.

This documentary was satisfying. They only teased us with bits and pieces of some of the songs, but I think they did a pretty good job covering the history.

As you may remember, I homeschool. And coincidentally we're covering early American history right now, and it's amazing how often we'll come across a lesson that is practically word-for-word in the play (example, I'm telling my eigth-grader, who has memorized the entire play, that General Howe has troops in New York Harbor, and she sings, "32,000 troops in New York harbor ...", and I'm like, weeeeee ).

And The World Turned Upside Down was really sung by the American troops as the British and Hessian troops were marched after Yorktown.

As you can tell, I'm a Huge Fan, and our family enjoyed the documentary.

Hope you're well.

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Occasionally someone will post a bootleg on Youtube but it gets taken down after a couple of days, that's how I saw it. It probably will spoil the ending but nothing that isn't already known since I think everyone knows Hamilton's fate at the end. It's like saying someone spoiled the film "Titanic" by telling them the ship sunk before seeing the film. I'm seeing it this summer and I can't wait.


"Who lives, who dies, who tells your story"

Well, it's history, so hard to 'spoil' it?
There's no legit way to watch the original musical online. That said, the music and clips are all freely available.
If you go to http://genius.com/albums/Lin-manuel-miranda/Hamilton-original-broadway-cast-recording you can find the audio of 'all' the songs (there is basically one missing that you have to see the show for but it doesnt' really affect the overall plot) along with all the lyrics (verified by Lin-Manuel Miranda) and an amazing amount of annotations, some done by Lin-Manuel himself as well as historians.
The CD is available, if you're not up to purchasing it, you might well be able to pick it up at your local library.