The Broadway musical Hamilton has received gushing, fulsome, fawning, rapturous, orgiastic coverage since it debuted last year, the hype eventually reaching such a fever pitch that the U.S. Department of the Treasury backed down on its plans to pull Alexander Hamilton off the $10 bill.
Referenced countless times by late night hosts, 24-hour news networks, online media impresarios, newspapers, magazines, radio shows and politicians, Hamilton found itself in a peculiar position at the center of our cultural discourse, even as its expensive tickets and Manhattan location made the show essentially inaccessible for the vast majority of the American public. There was something galling about rich media buttholes using national platforms to effuse endlessly about a play exclusive to their neighborhood. On the plus side, excessive Hamilton exultation made it really easy to pick out the online media voices most worth ignoring forevermore:
When the BuzzFeed #Hamilton slack room has a heated debate about which Hogwarts houses the characters belong to pic.twitter.com/xUtdCl0PvE
— Arielle Calderon (@Arielle07) November 4, 2015
But, don’t worry, plebs who didn’t catch Hamilton with its original cast, you’ll soon be able to watch Hamilton star and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda host Saturday Night Live (SNL). Miranda will be hosting Oct. 8, with musical guest Twenty One Pilots.
And that will be far from the last you’ll see of Lin-Manuel Miranda. Not only did he write the music for the upcoming Disney animated movie Moana and their live-action The Little Mermaid, but he’ll also play a Dick Van Dyke type in Mary Poppins Returns.
Will the rest of the country fall in love with Lin-Manuel Miranda like a handful of New York theatergoers insist they must?
