I don’t know what the weekend was like for the rest of you shut-ins — was it just my neighborhood, or did it sound like the civil war had broken out on the night of July 4? — but at my house we celebrated the Founding Father without a father by watching the filmed version of “Hamilton,” a welcome switch from listening to the soundtrack for the past four years.
Yes, my wife is a certified “Hamilton” freak, so I’ve got the show’s music pretty much memorized by now. Though it’s billed as a hip-hop musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda actually dipped into a wide range of popular music styles in assembling his show. Over the years, this number, a slow jam done in girl group style with Phillipa Soo as Eliza Schuyler, has emerged as my favorite.
This version was put together by the folks at NBC during quarantine. It’ll have to suffice until someone pirates the Disney version on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo_s6PsVogI