Opening questions

1. What do the following have in common: “Cats”, “The Phantom of the Opera”,
“Grease”, “Les Miserables”, “The Book of Mormon” and “Hamilton”?
2. How popular are musical in your country? Have you ever seen a musical/
move adaptation= Have you ever gone to a local musical? (E.g: in Argentina
“Dracula” by Cibrial-Mahlen is one of the longest running musicals ever)

4. In 2009, Lin-Manuel Miranda was invited to the “White House Evening of

Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word”, where he performed a sonf he was
working on. Listen and fill the blanks.
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“I’m ____________ the White House called me tonight, because I’m actually
working on a ___________ album, uh, a concept album about the life of
someone I think embodies hip-hop: _________________ Secretary Alexander
Hamilton. You laugh! But it’s true. He was born a _____________ orphan in St.
Croix, an illegitimante birth, became Geoge Washingston’s ______________
man, became treasury secretary, caught beed with every other ____________
father, and all o the strenght of his writing. I think he ___________ the worlds
ability to make a difference”

5. How is Hamilton ambodimente of hip-hop according to Lin-Manuel Miranda?

What dies mean to “catch beef” with someone?
6. How did the audrience react to his little introduction?
7. Did the musical sink or swim? Fill in the blanks
Record nominates recipient setting debut unprecedent prior reception

The musical made it’s Off-Broadway ________ at the public theatre in February
2015, where its engagement was sold out. The show transferred to Broadway in
August 2015 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. On Broadway, it received
enthusiastic critical ___________ and ______________ advance box offices
sales. In 2016, Hamilton received a ______________ 16 Tony nominations,
winning 11, including Best Musical, and was also the _________ of the 2016
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for
Drama. The ______________ off- Broadway production of Hamilton won the
2015 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical as well as seven other Drama
Desk Awards out of 14 total _____________ categories.
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