Falling Stars

The cast of Hamilton Australia. #HamiltonAU (video intro)
Cast & Creative (cast profiles)
Hamilton announces 'exceptionally talented and diverse' cast for Australia production (Guardian article)

So excited! It feels real now. I'm familiar with a few of the cast - Chloé Zuel (Eliza) as Aragon in Six, Marty Alix (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton) as Sonny in In the Heights, and Brent Hill (King George III) as Dewey Finn in School of Rock.

I have no idea what their plans are with regard to social distancing, but hopefully they'll have figured something out by March.

Bonus: two recent videos by the US casts about voting:

"The Room Where It Happens" - IWillVote.com
"Dear Theodosia" - Election Day

1) I love the recent trend of Zoom performances from home.
2) Why does every word feel so relevant?!

Hamilton is finally coming to Australia!!!

Sydney secures Australian premiere of Hamilton

Lyric Theatre. February 2021.

There's a million things I haven't done
But just you wait, just you wait

The story I wrote for kitrinlu was:

Title: All the Colours of Rain
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor
Rating: PG
Summary: Csevet protects his Emperor.

The treat I wrote for daken was:

Title: Changing Ends
Fandom: Tennis RPF
Rating: G
Summary: When is the worst time to accidentally swap bodies with your rival? During a grand slam. Roger still wants to win the French Open, but right now he is so perplexed.

The treat I wrote for radialarch was:

Title: Bold Strokes
Fandom: Hamilton
Rating: PG
Summary: Hamilton needs the votes. He needs to convince more folks. (With apologies to Lin-Manuel Miranda.)

Meta now available.

Thank you thank you thank you to reishiin, for not only writing me a gorgeous Fallen London story, a dereliction, but actually creating an entire interactive fiction game, light beneath water, which is just. Wow. More than anything I could have dreamed, and if you want to play through a beautifully written mythic story about the Masters of the Bazaar, I highly recommend it! (Now with added endnotes.) This has been an incredible Yuletide for me.

I still haven't gotten to everything I planned to read, so I'm looking forward to lots more stories to enjoy! A summary of this year's Yuletide is at yuletide_admin.

So for the last few weeks, this is what I've been listening to, pretty much non-stop:



Others more eloquent than me have talked about what it means to them, to witness the story of America then, cast with people who look like America now. How it makes them feel part of the history of their nation for the first time. Powerful stuff.

I've never really been into American history. I've never been into rap and hip-hop before.

But I do love a good musical.

And Hamilton? Is a great musical.

The promo clip certainly grabbed my attention. ("My Shot" is irresistibly catchy: "Hey yo, I'm just like my country / I'm young, scrappy and hungry / And I'm not throwing away my shot!")

But what won my heart was Lin-Manuel Miranda's performance at the White House poetry jam, back when all he had was the first song. It was electrifying. (I get chills at "There's a million things he hasn't done / But just you wait, just you wait...")

Hamilton is doing so many things on so many levels: musically, thematically, emotionally. It's put together so beautifully. And there are so many moments in it that move me.

As Stephen Colbert said in his interview with Lin-Manuel Miranda on The Late Show: "My first reaction was just like, oh, this is very interesting, this is very different, I wonder how long they can sustain this. And then you go, oh, this is actually quite magnificent. And then two hours later I'm going, why am I crying over Alexander Hamilton?"